I DARE YOU!

So who do you think would dare jump off the chair?

Danielle and Charlie

Danielle, the ferret of course! Fearless li'l lady!
While we place Charlie on the chair whenever he's playing too wild and needs some cooling down, he would not dare jump.

My Meg

Meg's my favorite name, sprung out of my admiration for Meg Ryan. So when my cousin brought a cute little 5 week old pup, day after my birthday, found out it was a she... i named her MEG! :)

She was cute and a bit jumpy whenever people come near her. After a week, she got used to us and i couldn't stop cuddling her. She was one sweet dog.

I've always had pets, i had some pairs of lovebirds that have come and gone.. i have an aquarium, which is now mainly for ornamental purposes at home.. i've even had chicks! Of course i had dogs, yep, we have and have had LOTS of dogs. we never were "out of" dogs. We always had at least 2 of them at home. Most of them, were "askals" as we call it.. or mutts i believe is the english term.

We did have some dogs of breed. we had a poodle, long time ago, who died of old age when i was only about five. then when i was around 12 or something, we had a German Shepherd, a beautiful faithful and sweet german shepherd we called Bugsy -- she was more than faithful to my cousin who owns him. He died of old age as well, when i was 21 i think (just about a year or two ago..). Meg came about 4-5 years ago, she still met Bugsy and they got along just fine :)

When meg was still a pup and i could still carry her, i always spend after school (i was in college) with her at our garden.. i'd put her on top of the garden table, and i'd talk to her, tell her everything i did the whole day.. how i felt -- if i was sad, lonely, happy, excited... in love :) She knew me a lot, KNOWS inside and out.. if she was a person, she'd be my keeper of secrets. I did that until he was too big to be put on top of the table, and i had to just sit beside him or walk with him outside, although he usually tires me too early trying to catch anything moving!

When my thesis days in college came, i had less and less time spent with him. And although i wanted to spend more time with him... i couldn't. Just a few days ago, i was at the living room, by the window with Ziggy (my 5 month old son) when Meg suddenly popped his head right in front of us. It was the cutest.. He was like introducing himself to Ziggy :) and ziggy was talking to him too!

We have another dog like meg, name's Sam, but he's more rowdy... and we weren't THAT close :p he'd usually start barking when he sees me or anybody carrying ziggy outside or strolling by the garden. So do the other dogs (we have 3 more, 1 mutt, 1 half mutt and half retriever, and one golden retriever -- Just like Meg and Sam.)

I realized that day, that although i spent less and less time with Meg, he still knows and recognizes me as somebody who used to spend time with him.. somebody who treated him with much importance before and he sorta knows that Ziggy is somebody whole lot important to me :)

I just loved the feeling...


here's her royal highness... Meg (original name was, believe it or not -- Ziggy of (something something.. Dog of Flanders? hahah basta.. that's what was written on his papers)



and his sidekick sam hahah royal highnesses have sidekicks in the dog world :p

kirei's latest..

this was kirei's picture taken last month. look at her, she looked so tame here huh, actually, she was sleepy here, notice the eyes? i found this pose of her funny, since she's a japanese spitz leaning on my japanese slippers. hehe.


i find it so hard to take a picture of kirei these days since she is one hyper baby, or she doesn't feel like posing in front of the camera. i almost thought that my baby is becoming camera-shy. oh no! then i was able to catch her in a sober mood.


last november 1, i brought kirei to the memorial park when we visited the grave of our grandparents. my nephews, don-don and simon would want to take her for a walk and argued as to who will take kirei first. hehe, my baby is in-demand! as we were strolling along the park, we saw this cute little girl who said, "Ay, ang cute ng aso...mayaman kayo?" haha, haha, bibong bata ah! kirei looked like a superstar in the park that time, people would notice her when we pass by. oh, my baby really loves sooo much attention.

anyway, she is getting bigger now, still teething and hyper as ever, just wait for her to become sleepy so she will mellow down. BUT she gets pissed off when she is left alone, no baby talk could teach her to get used to being alone sometimes. she would really cry when i leave. tsk tsk!

my youngest nephew, mig-mig was so fond of kirei that he would really giggle when kirei licks his hand. while my niece coleen was so afraid of her. hmm, i would teach her to love my pets for gretchen (a german shepherd) is now pregnant --finally! so our house will have more babies soon!

Let me share my experience with kirei last weekend:
I left her upstairs and Tatay asked me why I didn't bring her with me downstairs for he heard kirei crying. So I went upstairs and I found it strange that she was crying in a different manner. As I was opening the little gate, I noticed that her right foreleg was trapped on one of the curves of the gate, which explained why she was really crying. I tried to release her leg, but to no avail...I can't do it for she would cry. I could feel her pain as she bit the handle of the gate -- I guess that was her way to release tension, and she was really crying. I got scared so I called Tatay, and he got a "long nose" to loosen the curve where kirei's leg was trapped, hence she was released. And I heaved a sigh of relief. My baby is okei.

sigh, i wish i could bring kirei to this shop, a resto type, where animals are free to roam around and mingle with other pets, they are required to pee first before they enter the shop premises. i forgot the name of the place, i will search for it.

so much for that, hello to your babies! MAMA SANGRE, the doggie bed is not yet done, actually, i haven't started on it yet.