Our westie . Toto is the rainbow of our life!
TOto was born in Kansas, and was drove 8 hours to Texas at a tender age of 8 weeks old; and stayed for 3.5 years. Aug 2013; TOto took lufthansas and flew over to the sunny Island of Singapore!
From a roll of tiny cutesy furball to a WILD furry LONG BALL!
I grew with him too, hahaha ...
Now he is UNCONTROLLABLE!
I miss the days when he I have to handfeed him and train him simple command.
We don't do that now because we want him to be able to eat by himself. We are worried that when I am not around he cannot eat and wants to wait for us to handfeed him. It took us sometime before he break that habit which including breaking the 'training' habit as well ...
Finally we can bring Toto to the Unleashed Indoor dog park, but they have made announcement that the dog park will be closing! ARRRRrrghhh SO SAD. It is a great place, with Air Con, Cafe, Wi-fi and synthetic grass!! WHY WHY WHY!!
I am abit allergic to GRASS, everytime we visit those outdoor dogparks I will come home with ALOT of insect bites. THIS PLACE IS GREAT, and I do not have to be exposed to the harmful UV rays, I can look pretty and walk my dog, WHY NOT!
So sad, this will be the first and last time we will be visiting the DOG park, hopeful they relaunch soon and PLEASE OPEN one near PLANO!!
Took lots of picture, but Toto is so happy RUNNING about. IT IS SO HARD to get a good picture of him!!! But he will still come running back to us when he hear us call him, pheeewwww ...
At least he still have US in his heart and will stop play and come running back, especially with YQ's whistle!!
In the end, Toto is infatuated with this Female Westie, MS HONEY!!
He was so happy running, biting and playing a fool with this galgal westie!!
Sniffing around to find a place to POOP!
The only time he calm down for me to shoot some photos!
After POOPING looking for playmate again!!
His gf of the day, a 2 years old Westie; Mz Honey!
Toto at Unleashed dog park!
Toto playing with Mz Honey, a 2yr old westie gal!
When he reaches home, he still don't want to rest, STILL WANT TO PLAY!
Hahaha, got to force him to go rest before he realised that he is REALLY REALLY REALLY tired!!
A stranger once ask us,' How did we manage to keep toto so clean and white!'
I do not know what we did right but My guess :
We comb him ALMOST daily.
Apple Cider Vinegar added to his first batch of water in the morning.
After his outdoor run, we spritz him with his shampoo that is mixed with water, and we wipe him out with a towel THOROUGH and he hates that!
He keep to ONLY his SOLID GOLD KIBBLES and water, we seldom give him treat and other kind of food
I think my best bet will be the kibbles, because even his moustachy is not stained.
BUT maybe he is still a puppy, and that is why he is still clean, white and fluffy hahaha
After 2months of hand plucking his fur RELIGIOUSLY,
We finally see result, and we are so HAPPY with ourselves PLUS the fact that we SAVE ALOT of $$$$. One 2 hour session will COST us USD65.00! And I am very sure, we will not be able to see result in 1 or 2 sessions!
Can you spot the coarse hair!?
So heart pain when we are hand stripping him, but Toto's pain tolerance is BERY high. And when I made a mistake and caused him extreme PAIN, he forgive me very quickly. PLUS he seldom snap at me even when I made such mistakes! But he has more patience and tolerate Longer when he is younger!
Now he only listen to YQ! :P
Hopefully YQ will continue to handstrip him when I am not around!
Handstripping also makes the dog SMELL better. So when he starts to have a doggy smell, we will have a round of stripping, either by hand or a ROUGH comb through with a metal comb to pull out his dead fur!
We have progressing to handstripping his head and that is DIFFICULT!
He is now about 15inch long from his neck.
MY FURBALL use to be only about 9inch when he arrives.
MY FURBALL is now LONG BALL!
And he is officially housebroken.
There are still mistake here and there but the mistakes are getting LESSER and lesser!
But still he needs LOTS of reminder but we are also seeing him getting on NUGI all by himself frequently.
And he knows the command 'GO PEE PEE nugi'! Because he have to do that in order to have access to the PATIO!
So we crate him for first half of the night and the 2nd half he be roaming the house and sleep freely! So after his PEE and POOP in the morning, he will COME KISSING us to wake up and clean after his POOP!
So every morning, we have to wake up and CLEAN SHIT~
Today when Daddy is going to work, Toto is at Patio concentrating on a dog that is walking by. So Daddy has no chance to say bye bye face to face. And when Toto comes back into the bedroom to look for me, he started whining, and keep sniffing at the changing room.
He is LOOKING for daddy! I have to keep telling him Daddy go work, not at home. He is not convince, and I have to open the changing room to let him in to sniff one round. After that he sniff ALL THE WAY to the door and kept sniffing the air around the door.
NOT giving up, he goes back into the bedroom and sniff at the changing door AGAIN! I have to repeatedly tell him that his daddy has gone to work. Not giving up, he sat just outside the changing room door and waited!!
I have to crate him to settle him, and let him goes back to sleep.
Haiyo I almost want to call Daddy back to say Goodbye again!
Love this photo ...
My Cat, erm Dog big backside!!!
We removed his PEN, and now he has the habit of bringing all his toy to this area to play!
Erm, we have to throw this ..
And now all his play or bite is supervised. After awhile we will change the chew with Ice to soothe his gum. If not usually he will chew till all his gum is blue black and bleeding!!
A friend came visiting from Singapore, and for these period we are being force to leave Toto at home to fend for himself, the whole day! And for the 6days he did EXTREMELY well! And our friend came at bad timing, Toto was teething these few days.
I really got no heart to crate him or close him in the toilet or kitchen. So we risk giving him the WHOLE living room and kitchen area!!!
First day, we forgot to pull the chair of the dining table, proper, and TOTO manage to jumped onto the dining table and STEAL some french fries that we left over from lunch. This we blame ourselves, we didn't leave enough food and we shouldn't have left HUMAN food openly, PLUS maybe he was REALLY hungry. He didn't eat up ALL the fries, he stop when he is full! Of course he has ALOT of shit that day!
2nd day, Toto start snacking on YQ slipper, and one part of the rubber went missing! YQ went ballastic and kept searching for the missing rubber parts, luckily it was found. YQ had no faith in our Toto, I KNEW Toto wouldnt eat foreign objects. He started chewing because of his teeth and we really couldn't blame him. But then we didn't know he was teething until we see the chew up slipper and check on his teeth!
Poor thing the gum were all swollen, inflamed and bleeding ...
And last day he was left at home for the WHOLE day (12hours), we came home to a dog ON THE dining table again. He was biting on my neck pillow but then nothing is LOST. He might have JUST jump up, but the look on his face when we CAUGHT him is priceless, hahahaha ...
A few days later, we also find out that Toto has been chewing on a soft toy that we left above the sofa. And the Wooden Bat the bear is holding is shredded.
So this few days tat TOto is being left at home taught us what to 'PREPARE' for when YQ has to left him alone at home after I go back to Singapore!
But we were very proud of him, we are not worried about his PEE and POOP issue, they are all done right! Just the chewing part, but he was teething, I guess we couldn't really blame him. So we went out to get MORE chew stuffs for him!
Hopefully it helps ...
The teeth grow out so fast, and another new tooth drop, and YQ manage to find it!
