Our Westie Toto's MUST HAVE Pt. 1

Disclaimer : I am not writing these to give out advices, just sharing some tips that we used on our own dog!

1) Petlifz Oral Gel : This is a gel form apply on the teeth direct, helps to remove plague and it has successfully lighten some of the stain on his teeth. It is so good I want to get the HUMAN's version!

2) Opticlear Eye wash : His eyes were infected a month ago, and keep having these yellowish discharge and YQ patiently washes with this Eyewash and warm wet cloth for a week till Toto recover. And now if we see Toto pawing his eye, we try to wash it out.

3) Epi-Optic ear wash : Saviour for his SMELLY ear. When his ear smell, his whole head SMELL! Why do we go pay $$$ when we can easily do it ourselves! It is easy but usually YQ will do all that, I always scare that I will hurt Toto!

4) Pet Dental : Yeah we brush him! Oh sometime Toto's mouth stink with this rotten fishy smell, we realised it is the smell of BLOOD. And usually it happen during teeth period. We were frantically searching online regarding this, and almost wants to bring him to a Vet dentist. But now we know better to let him OVER CHEW, usually if we see him chewing frantically, we will remove his chew toy and let him play with a ICE to help numb the pain, and also remove the bloody fishy smell. Simple solution but well who knows huh ...

5) Bragg Organic Apple cider Vinegar : We use this to prevent fleas and ticks' infestation and also to neutralised Toto smelly peepee! He has been drinking this since the day we bring him into our home. And, usually we add it to the first bowl of Toto daily water! It has ALOT more 'benefits', read it up; from ehow.com and earthclinic.com. Please do your own research and read up more, if you want to feed your dog.

6) Organic Flaxseed meal : Initially we have wanted to get "Seameal Powder with Flaxseed Meal" but it is EXPENSIVE, and flaxseed meal is one of the main ingredient in that supplement for dog! PLUS Flaxseed meal is usually one of the ingredient in dog food kibbles, so we think there is nothing wrong to ADD more to his kibbles to increase his fibre intake so that Toto POOP better and help with his anal gland problem! We add 1 or 2 tsp to his kibbles daily. Getting a HUMAN grade flaxseed is so much cheaper, WTH!?

8) Organic Greek Yogurt : Why Greek? Non added sugar, all natural. We hope that this can improve his digestion system, so he can POOP better!! Healthy Hard POOP is very important because it will help express out his anal gland sac naturally. AND that really SMELL bad,  it SMELL like dead fish in the butt ....

From wiki: Dog feces are normally firm, and the anal glands usually empty when the dog defecates, lubricating the anal opening in the process. When the dog's stools are soft they may not exert enough pressure on the glands, which then may fail to empty. This may cause discomfort as the full anal gland pushes on the anus. The glands can be emptied by the dog's keeper, or more typically by a groomer or veterinarian, by squeezing the gland so the contents are released through the small openings on either side of the anus. Discomfort is evidenced by the dog dragging its posterior on the ground, licking or biting at the anus, sitting uncomfortably, having difficulty sitting or standing, or chasing its tail.

8) Mar stripping knife, pumice stone and a comb - The three MOST USED grooming tools for Toto! Oh and also with my BIG FAT THUMB! I wonder when YQ is bringing him to a Professional, I just trimmed Toto's ear too! One 2 hr session of handstripping will cost us USD75.00!! But we won't know how PROFESSIONAL is the groomer until we take the risk! We are so paranoid that we will bring him IN a Westie and Out he come as a Schnauzer!

There are MORE EQUIPMENT that we own but I will post them up again :), or maybe I can also post up some useless stuffs that we brought by no chance to use!

Awesome, Gucci Dog bag!

Do you think YQ will buy me one of this, hahaha ~

But then I won't have the strength to carry this, it will end up on YQ's shoulder ...

@ Lewisville Railroad Park 2010102 with a Pom

After the scratched incident, Toto is NOW really very careful and choosy about who he plays with. He refused to play with Dogs that are too grouchy, fierce or dogs who growl/bark at him! You can see he will try try to play with different dogs, and if he like ONE of them, Toto will be stuck to that particular dog the WHOLE night. And if NOT, we will see him roaming around the whole night very restless! Oh plus sometime is OTHER dogs who do not want to play with Toto too! Hahaha, we do not know how dogs 'chooses' who to play with and who not to! So weird!

So we will be very thankful, if there is ONE such dog every night that can tired him out! And tonight there is one Pomeranian that wants to play with Toto!

It is very funny watching them play, the owner of the POM is laughing so hard and commenting that she hasn't laugh so hard for so long, and that is the first time she see her POM plays like that. Toto is really a very nice play buddy, he is very gentle BUT he loves to win haha!!

A usual Saturday for TOto

We brought TOto to Petsupplies Plus to check out a HUGE turtle, a replacement for his USD2.50 Target Turtle that he LOVE so much, and we are so scared that when that turtle is damage to a point of beyond repair, what will happen to TOto hahaha. We have to find a HUGE turtle with a HUGE head for him to HUMP and bite on!

And then we are off to Allen Village of course, and there is an event for dogs so he met quite a number of Kiddos and doggies too ~

The kiddos here are 'taught' how to

1) Ask for Permission, with 'PLEASE'.
2) Approach dogs, lowering the face and allowing the doggies to sniff the hand before petting them gently.
3) AND most importantly they are taught to say 'THANK YOU'.

See how big he has grown, he should be about 15lb++!

P/S: TOto now knows that we are going out without him if he is NOT harnessed or leashed! So when we tell him that we are going out, he will not rush towards the door anymore ...

YOU cannot SEE meeee ...

The NAUGHTIEST time of the day is when TOto try to wake us up in the morning and we DON'T WANT to, and he will be up to NO GOOD in that few minutes we do not want to wake up!

SO WEIRD RIGHT!!

If Toto wants to he can wreak havoc the WHOLE night away while we are sleeping but he doesn't, it is always that 5-10minutes when he tries to wake us but we REFUSED to budge, and you know he is being naughty somewhere!!

And how do we know TOto knows that he is doing something he is NOT ALLOW!?

HAhahahaha, we will wake up and call out to him,
'Toto toto where are you?'
(He is train to run to us wherever he is to SHOW face to let us know where he is, and he will do that when usually we cannot see him! Or if he is naughty and do not want to come to us and we will hide ourselves and call out to him!)

And when he is UP TO NO GOOD, he will BECOME VERY STILL, hoping we cannot SEE HIM! And there is a few time we cannot FIND HIM! Hahahha ...

Once he is biting on on of the TV cable and hiding behind our airbed that is parallel to the wall. I saw him seated behind the TV console just out of the gated area, and looking at me. AND HE STOP MOVING ...
(If not he will start running to us! We have learn not to 'shout' or be fierce shouting his 'Name'. Because it might instill fear and next time you call out his name, he will associate it with something BAD!)

The other time which is more obvious is when he crawl UNDER the sofa and was biting at the wood underneath thus creating alot of NOISE. And when YQ calls out to him, HE STOP biting and stop MOVING! Hahahaha so funny lo! Hahaha, YQ still calls for quite long until YQ head go underneath (let Toto know that he is BEING FOUND already) and call out to Toto before Toto is willing to back-crawl and crawl out.

'A'HA GOT CAUGHT on the SPOT hahahahaha ~

And after all the Hoooooo and the haaaaa in the morning, when we are all awake! He goes to sleeeeeeeep ...

Dogs, they are actually VERY clever. They are NOT stupid, it is just whether they respect you enough to do what you want him to do or they just BLATANTLY choose to IGNORE YOU and just do whatever they want to! And Toto always try to test his limit with US!! His ORNERY side is still VERY OBVIOUS ...

Oppsie, Toto n his NUGI ...

Toto did something that he hadn't done in a LONG LONG LONG while, he pooped and Peed on the carpet yesterday night!! YQ caught him on the spot, and scolded him so loud, I thought he is KILLING my dog! Hahaha, I have to JUMP out of bed ...

And we know it is really NOT all TOto fault, know why!?

Because the NUGI aka his toilet, is VERY DIRTY! I had saw that earlier and forgotten to inform YQ to clean it. Poor Toto, he must have felt very bad, very 无奈! Because we guess after his poop, he came and lick my eye, HE NEVER do that AT NIGHT, and I was wondering WHY!?

After YQ clear up his shit, he still goes sniffing at one area of the carpet, to let YQ knows that 'Gee Dad, I pee here too!!', haha another round of scolding for Toto!! Poor thing le, inform dad still Kana scolding ...

And how we know TOTO knows it is at fault? Because THIS MORNING, TOto actually COME and wake YQ up BEFORE his business!! Hahahahaha ~ It like telling YQ , see I KNOW I should pooped and peed at NUGI, and he did it 'ZHUN ZHUN' (accurately) without the POOP falling out of place!!

SO WEIRD right! (Toto usually POOPED before coming in to wake us up!)

Toto is a HYGIENE freak with regards to his NUGI area, if the NUGI gets too smelly or too FULL, he won't use it until we change him a new one! This is his habit since VERY VERY young, hahahaha ~

Me and YQ always says to him,' NEED to be so clean or NOT!'

Toto and his sleeping habits!

Toto will SLEEP more in the afternoon and then roaming around in the middle of the night! Hahaha STUPID dog! But well it works for me because I don't want to spend the whole day playing with him! And for the first half of the day he will sleep next to the front door. And by about 3-4pm, he will jump up on the sofa and sleep beside me! He will usually wake about 5plus or when YQ comes back!

Hahaha I tell YQ throughout the whole day me and TOto lives our own SEPARATE life, and only when YQ is back, TOto will FAKE a loving relationship with ME!

Anyway, Toto is always sleeping and dreaming.

And the most exaggerated experience I had was ...

TOto was sleeping at the entrance to kitchen, and suddenly he barked till he woke up and ran towards the front door and started BARKING at the door! I thought what happen and peep through the door peephole! No one ... I try to convince him, tell him it is OK, there is no one!

He is NOT convince so I have to OPEN the door and SHOW him; "There, no one outside"!!!
And the situation is really like what you see in cartoon, he sat BEHIND me only popping out his head by my leg. Then when I see left and right of the corridor, you can see his head also swerve left and right. Then I shut the door, he happily go back to sleep again!

Hahaha don't know what kinda of monster he dreamt of looming outside our corridor!!

Anyway Dogs do dream, and TOto dream ALOT! Sometime his dream is SO EXCITING his 4paws and tails are MOVING as well!! Sometime, 4 paws, tail and BARKING or GROWLING! Hahaha, his dreams are always very exciting, but these moments are very instantaneous and only for that few seconds. Very rarely can I take it on video!



And finally , and in a VERY NICE posture, I got a video of him sleep barking. (Maybe he secretly knows I am taking his video!!)


TOto Halloween Costume, a Giant Furball of Pumkin, but too bad the size is a tad too small so we got to return that!! But so cute right hahaha~

Toto new toy, this gator (we named him 'AH DE') has 16 squeakor inside, So Toto every bite there will be a squeak.

VERY NOISY TOY!

TOto sleeping in the bright afternoon, so bright, so he hide his eye in 'kaka' tail!