It’s JD’s birthday today, she is the ripe old age of 9 human years. Kings and I can’t agree on (or really remember) our wedding anniversary, but oh, 8 years, 8 months ago, we bought JD for SGD 1,200 and she has been enriching our lives ever since. Now she entertains the Rockstar too.
So today after school, we went to look for a birthday gift for her at Whispers N Paws…
- Rockstar’s First Choice
Rockstar: How about this, Mum?
Me: Uh… It’s way too small for JD, it’s for cats.
Rockstar: I meant the cat. It doesn’t come with a cat?
This is like when Kings suggested getting JD her own pet rabbit… You never know if either of them is serious about these things… Anyway it would sadden the Rockstar to know JD used to be afraid of cats. This stems from Mean Cat experiences when we lived near the Orchard Road area in Singapore – there were these horrible things that hid in the bushes at night and would scratch an unsuspecting curious dog across the nose. JD got it as a pup and has had a fear of cats since. We had husky neighbors who had similar feelings. Haven’t checked recently if she still feels the same way though, but in general we’ve never known her to actually snap at anything other than bugs that fly by…
- How About Doggles?
Can’t find her old life jacket… But we won’t be on a boat for awhile and she’s not the sort who likes dress-ups…
- Sexy Hairy Legs…
This is not a bad idea… We watched the vet superglue (yes, really) JD’s paw pads back together after she split her pad open on a barnacle…
- “She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My JD…”
This from one of our many JD photo collections (more later), it’s just for the little pic on the right – Kings is carrying JD down this slope because the road is burning hot… You can see her pleased expression even in the tiny blurry pic… We hadn’t got her shoes because we were too lazy to keep track of four shoes, especially when we’ve been known to lose Rockstar’s shoes on occasion…..
- Ok, this one is moving into Are You Kidding Me territory…
Seriously? “Dog Casino”?? Looks a bit like Congkak, but maybe the name is to appeal to all the hard core gamblers who are also hard core dog lovers in HK…
Rockstar deliberates squeaky plush “flowers,” a dinosaur, knitted balls and bones (this is particularly interesting because there are a lot of knitted baby toys right now that look EXACTLY like the dog ones), plush balls, tennis balls on the ends of ropes, recycled rubber and mountain climbing string (yes really it said so on the packet) toys…..
- JD’s pressie (and OMG when did my dog’s eyebrows turn WHITE??)
And then we settle on rubber rings. And a bag of salmon skin rolls, which we will give to her after she’s dropped a few pounds because I just discovered our new helper of several weeks misunderstood our feeding instructions and has been feeding JD double her regular meal portions for as long… And there I was wondering why JD looked like she was rapidly putting on weight…
Life is a joy...
It would appear pressie meets Material Dog’s approval…
And yes, she fell asleep with it
Happy Birthday JD. Thank you for all the hours and years of love and fun. Oh, and the 3km walks won’t be giving me ligament pain much longer, gynea says that gets better as the baby gets bigger, strangely…
Heck, I forgot my dog can’t read. Most of the time she just looks like a dog…
Happy Birthday JD! (Please wish JD for me as you said she can’t read but I believe she understands when you talk to her).
JD looked a bit “sheepish” when being carried. She must be thinking, please don’t let me be seen being carried by my Dad by my doggie pals, hehehe. She is blessed to have such thoughtful and loving human-parents.
P/S I like to eat salmon skin (not from pet store), hehehe.
Thanks Mun (and thanks to your idea of dog travel photos which I’ll put up eventually – still slowly digging em up)… Not sure how much she knows about birthdays but she definitely knows presents! Yes she loves salmon in any form, in our household she gets all our skins cos we eat it a lot without the skin (Kings’ perpetual diet, taste pref on my and Rockstar’s part…)
And yeah she has some kind of funny sheepish/ pleased expression in that pic, really wonder what was going thru her mind then…!
Can’t wait to see the JD’s travel adventure photos! 🙂
Happy birthday JD! She’s such a beauty and looks so so so kind! Love and hugs to her!
Happy birthday JD! She’s such a beauty and looks so so so kind! Love and hugs to her!
Thanks Heather, can’t really tell how she looks anymore, she’s just JD and we love her to bits (but forever feel guilty we don’t take her to as many interesting places as we used to now we have Rockstar – you’ll see y when I put up all her old photos I’ve been digging up…)
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HAHAHAHAHA Thanks!!! What a coincidence, though yes, come to think of it, it’s quite common human initials… Our JD btw stands for “Just ‘Dog'” because we couldn’t think of what to name her initially and then she fixed on JD so we kept it… Now of course she pretty much answers to anything… IF she wants to.