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Friday, February 19, 2010
A dream about a white dog
I had a weird dream last night.
Don't remember the details but I dreamed that I had a group of dogs swimming in the river and I was standing by the river watching them with joy. At that point my neighbour came over and asked for her white dog back, to which I agreed.
I DO remember feeling sad that I had to let that white dog go because I was so fond of him.
Incidentally one of my real neighbours indeed has a white Cocker Spaniel and Golden Retriever mix. His name is Freckles, who looks more like a Cocker Spaniel than a Golden with his medium size. He is an adorable male dog who likes to wonder all around the map and get himself lost.
Maybe it was because I thought too much about what kind of husband to get for Caitey during the day. We are still debating if we should get a Golden or a German.... and if it is the former should we get just a regular Golden (golden colored) or a British (creamy colored) Golden?
Decisions decisions decisions .... as they call it "analysis paralysis".
Don't remember the details but I dreamed that I had a group of dogs swimming in the river and I was standing by the river watching them with joy. At that point my neighbour came over and asked for her white dog back, to which I agreed.
I DO remember feeling sad that I had to let that white dog go because I was so fond of him.
Incidentally one of my real neighbours indeed has a white Cocker Spaniel and Golden Retriever mix. His name is Freckles, who looks more like a Cocker Spaniel than a Golden with his medium size. He is an adorable male dog who likes to wonder all around the map and get himself lost.
Maybe it was because I thought too much about what kind of husband to get for Caitey during the day. We are still debating if we should get a Golden or a German.... and if it is the former should we get just a regular Golden (golden colored) or a British (creamy colored) Golden?
Decisions decisions decisions .... as they call it "analysis paralysis".
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Caitey's 1st Chinese New Year
新年快乐, 恭喜发财!
Caitey just spent her 1st Chinese New Year with us and had lots of yummy food from dumplings to pancakes as her treats. I am just glad that she is not in China, or the noise of the firecrackers would have scared her to death.
We had a ton of snow this year, two major ones back to back that left our yard covered with knee-high level of snow. It is inconvenient for lots of people from driving on messy dangerous roads to losing power at home, but Caitey had a great time jumping in and out of the snow. She even went sledging with us quite a few times and chased us relentlessly up and down the hill. She got herself so exhausted that often she would fell into a nap right after she came back home.
She also developed a "bad" habit -- before she would be very happy if we could just let her out play in the back yard, but now she will sit on the patio whimpering, because she wants us to go out and play with her!
By the way did you know that 49 out of the 50 states in the US ALL had snow at one point last week? It has been such an "upside down" winter so far -- the deep south was buried with unusual snow that left several states paralyzed, while the Winter Olympics had to cancel snowboarding event due to the lack of it!
On another note, Caitey is a big beautiful blonde now -- at not even 8 months of age, she now officially weighs 66.4 lbs! She is going to break her Mommy's back someday.
She gets very tall when she "stands up" -- with her height well over the counter she stands straight on her hind legs, we will have to be careful of her "stealing" our food, but so far this hasn't happened too often, yet, because she will quit whenever we tell her to "stop" or "no".
I also heard that lots of Goldens will entering the mouthy biting and chewing period at about 7 or 8 months of age, but so far Caitey has been behaving very well like a good girl.
As Caitey grows older she now refused to sleep in her crate any more, and since she no long has accidents any more (knock on the woods), we let her sleep under the desks in the office or in the mater bedroom. Sometimes she will happily spend time next to Mommy's bed and watch me sleep without a sound till I get up.
She is getting so beautiful and gracious that some people who met her have suggested that maybe we should make a show dog out of her. Some say she looks very "fashionable" with the wavy hair on her body. She has long hair on her tail which whips left and right like a long beautiful fan when she walks.
I bought her two new doggie beds yesterday and put each of them under our two desks. She went under one desk, crawled on top of it sort of to show me that the size fit her perfectly, came out to kiss my hand while waving her tail at me, and then went back to nap on it.
I was (and still am) really touched by how appreciative she is... no wonder people say dogs are better than humans sometimes.
Caitey just spent her 1st Chinese New Year with us and had lots of yummy food from dumplings to pancakes as her treats. I am just glad that she is not in China, or the noise of the firecrackers would have scared her to death.
We had a ton of snow this year, two major ones back to back that left our yard covered with knee-high level of snow. It is inconvenient for lots of people from driving on messy dangerous roads to losing power at home, but Caitey had a great time jumping in and out of the snow. She even went sledging with us quite a few times and chased us relentlessly up and down the hill. She got herself so exhausted that often she would fell into a nap right after she came back home.
She also developed a "bad" habit -- before she would be very happy if we could just let her out play in the back yard, but now she will sit on the patio whimpering, because she wants us to go out and play with her!
By the way did you know that 49 out of the 50 states in the US ALL had snow at one point last week? It has been such an "upside down" winter so far -- the deep south was buried with unusual snow that left several states paralyzed, while the Winter Olympics had to cancel snowboarding event due to the lack of it!
On another note, Caitey is a big beautiful blonde now -- at not even 8 months of age, she now officially weighs 66.4 lbs! She is going to break her Mommy's back someday.
She gets very tall when she "stands up" -- with her height well over the counter she stands straight on her hind legs, we will have to be careful of her "stealing" our food, but so far this hasn't happened too often, yet, because she will quit whenever we tell her to "stop" or "no".
I also heard that lots of Goldens will entering the mouthy biting and chewing period at about 7 or 8 months of age, but so far Caitey has been behaving very well like a good girl.
As Caitey grows older she now refused to sleep in her crate any more, and since she no long has accidents any more (knock on the woods), we let her sleep under the desks in the office or in the mater bedroom. Sometimes she will happily spend time next to Mommy's bed and watch me sleep without a sound till I get up.
She is getting so beautiful and gracious that some people who met her have suggested that maybe we should make a show dog out of her. Some say she looks very "fashionable" with the wavy hair on her body. She has long hair on her tail which whips left and right like a long beautiful fan when she walks.
I bought her two new doggie beds yesterday and put each of them under our two desks. She went under one desk, crawled on top of it sort of to show me that the size fit her perfectly, came out to kiss my hand while waving her tail at me, and then went back to nap on it.
I was (and still am) really touched by how appreciative she is... no wonder people say dogs are better than humans sometimes.
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