Movie trailer starring...yours truly!

Woohoo! My very own trailer (and I even the movie version)!

We had tons of fun making this today and hope you enjoy watching it too! The world cannot succumb to hunger...we will become heroes and save the day! ;)

I'm injured...=(

Well, I've been fortunate that Mommy is kiasu and been giving me glucosamine, chondroitin and MSM supplements since I was a puppy. I'm about 6.5 years old now...time flies eh? So I haven't limped at all for the last 4 years or so even after long walks, fun days out at the beach, etc.

But last friday morning I can't explain what happened. My left back leg just started hurting a lot after breakfast. I was a 3 legged dog for a while and the pain got worse. Mommy was shocked to see me look like that. She hoped it was a "numb" leg from sleeping on one side (cos I disappeared into the bedroom after breakfast) but sorry to say it wasn't. 

This is me barely standing on my left back leg.

So off to Arroyo Vets I went. Dr Megan was nice. She was as gentle as she could be and I got treats. Ok, so I looked sad and needed love. ;)  She had to test my knee joints and said my knees felt really loose. And cos Mommy said I might have hip dysplasia as well, i was off to get xrays. They were nice and didn't sedate me. 

My xrays came back showing that both my hips have the dysplasia (boo...) but the left hip is much worse than the right. The radiologist said my knees while are loose do not show any signs of arthritis. Yay! 

So this is me on Rimadyl that friday night. See my the-world-has-come-to-an-end expression? Mommy promptly started physio on me too. Massage! yay! Ouch...cramps....

I got sympathy points that weekend from Daddy too! Nom nom.... i want....

Please Daddy...grovel...i'm injured...u love me...nom nom...

Yay! I got to taste a bit of the organic peach! Yummmm.... (no seed/pit of course. Those are dangerous to us dogs).

Time to snooze on the couch and support Daddy in his endeavour to slay evil!

Once the sun started moving away I went to my favourite spot in the yard to snooze...

Mommy said something about maybe, just maybe, needing surgery on my hip. Sounds like what many of her patients in Singapore had to go through. *zzzzz* Time to catch up on my beauty sleep!

Carmel Beach!

What in tar-nations....!!! It is already August! Yikes! Well here's a late post (again).

It all started on the 7th of July. Mommy had told Daddy that she wanted to celebrate her barkday early by us having a fun doggy day out at Carmel Beach. She read that it was a nice beach...so that morning, I got wind of it! Yes! Let's go!

After a SUPER long car ride (it was supposed to be under 1.5 hrs but ended up 2 hours cos of holiday traffic. Boo...), we reached! Nice beach! Weather was kinda cold and foggy that day though. My humans weren't too excited about that. Not that it bothered me at all. =)

The sand was REALLY soft. Kinda reminded me of the sand in Sentosa, Singapore. I spent my time wandering off with daddy...

...only to run back to mommy...

...and do it all again!

Soon Daddy muttered something about water and the beach so back on the leash I went, cos I ain't too fantastic a swimmer... I gotta tell you that THE WATER IS COLD!!! Something about the Pacific Ocean? Phooey.

We met this nice man who told us about a great place to bathe me. What?!?!?!

Why would he know that? Well these are his dogs and his family is in the background. His dogs LOVE the beach and the sand. Can you tell? (breed name is unpronounceable!)



No time to waste! I'm off again to explore this extensive beach!

Plenty of surfer dudes, dudettes and kids. The cold water has no effect on them. They must be aliens.



Seriously. Did i tell you the water IS COLD?!?!?!

A quick retreat to dry sand and a dog's gotta do what a dog's gotta doooo.



And he gets his human to be responsible for his doo. ;)

What an awesome day so far...



I love this beach! Wish it were closer to home...

I think Mommy loves this beach too!

Pose. Nice trees in the back. 

What? The... ooo...actually this is pretty comfy...



I started getting sleepy. Zzzzzz....

Daddy thought it was funny. Daddy told me he likes being buried in sand too. Mommy doesn't. Haha!

Well, it was the BEST beach day ever! I know there's more great beach days to come! yes yes! I like the beach!

Las Palmas Park again!

Yeah! Summer is here! I LOVE summer...yes it is hot and all that but so far it has been great for me cos I get to go out more! And this year, Mommy is staying with me all summer (not like last year!).

We went to Las Palmas Park again. I like this park. There are quite a number of dog loving people here and the grass is nice and green!

Mommy brought the picnic mat and laid it on the grass just at the edge of the tree's shadow. Of course, I know what's important. HER BAG! (cos there's always some doggy treats for me in there!!!)

Now if just give her my goofy grin, she'll not be able to resist my mind-meld and gimme some treats!

Couple of treats and plenty of drools later, I started noticing this awesome thing behind me!!! See it?

I know what I want for Christmas...This big ol' tree in MY BACKYARD!!!

Ok...I've used up Mommy's goodwill..hee... time to mind meld Daddy into walking me!

"Mommy!!! Can you see me from waaaay over there???"

"How about now???? Can you still see me????"

"What the....! Daddy is cheating! He started running back!!!!"

"Huff puff huff puff....Mommy...I'm coming!!!"

Teehee!!! Silly running face!

What a great weekend! Wait till you read the next post on what we did on the weekend of the 7th of July!!! Stay tuned!

Outing to San Fran with Hammer's mommy!

So remember Aunty Evelyn coming over? This entry is about the day that she brought me to San Francisco! (ok...so mommy drove, but it was Aunty Evelyn's idea to bring me out...afterall she was pawsome enough to come visit me!)

So here we are, in the car. I'm sitting in the back with my seatbelt on. Yes, I have a seatbelt harness. Useful stuff for preventing me from climbing to the front. Which according to mommy is extremely dangerous cos I'd be in the way. =P

We got to the usual car park that was next to Joe's Crab Shack and I wanted to climb out. Pfft! The seatbelt harness was still on! Better be patient... ;)

The humans were hungry and so was I. I couldn't focus on posing...I smelt FOOOOOOD....

Glorious food! This was what the humans ate.

 I got a piece of lettuce or two and my own dog treats under the table. 

What? Did someone say OmmmNommmm???

Oh, it was just that pigeon squawking at me...taunting me... Humph.

No time to waste! We had to go SHOPPING! (What is that? Mommy and Daddy never brings me shopping. New experience here!)

Some quick photos... SMILE!

And off to dog friendly Pier 39 we went! 

This, my doggy friends, is called SHOPPING. I got to enter the stores with Aunty Evelyn. She found me useful to help measure sizes when shopping for her nephews and nieces. Wonder if they are furry?

More shopping! I LOVE this store. This shop sells doggy-related stuff! They rock!

Towards the end of the shopping day. Mommy was tired. All that stuff in the bags are Aunty Evelyn's SHOPPING. If shopping means I get to go out and be in the stores...then I guess I like shopping. If it is waiting outside the shops...don't think i'd like it. Today, though, I liked it very much!

Well, that's it! Homeward bound with my seatbelt on again. Dear Hammer, I hope you hug your mommy everyday! I love you Aunty Evelyn!