Pet Pride 062: All Ears

Mum: Alright, doggies. Listen to me...

Joe: I'm all EARS, mum!

Pet Pride 057: Max's turn

Last week, Joe wasn't that successful. Now, it's my turn.

Mum, pleeeaze put it down nao. Or I'm calling dad!

Pet Pride 055: Chewbacca?

No, I'm not. I am Max.

Sorry we have been absent from the memes for so long. We hope to do this again regularly. And we also hope old friends will find us back. Have a super weekend.

Pet Pride 054: Nobody messes with Joe

Joe is on guard duty at the veranda at the back our apartment where we have huge pots planted with vegetables. 

In full concentration. He scours every corner of the veranda for any unfriendly bugs and CATS.

Good job, Joe.

Pet Pride 051: Separated at birth?

Hi. Max and Joe's mum here.

Sorry we've been quiet for several weeks. We have so much going on at home at the moment  and I could not find enough time to blog.  Now that our schedule has loosened up a bit, we are back to our blogging activity.

For this week's picture, I thought I'd share with you the one I took of Joe. He was being teased by my husband while I was making him sit still for a photo. I thought that it came out nicely though, whatchathink?

Joe wanted that ball!

I was looking at Joe's picture when it suddenly it hit me - I saw this face on tv the other night and I was right!

Can you see the similarity between Joe (top) and Sid (above)? It is uncanny, isn't it?
Photo Source: Google Image Search

I could not believe my eyes! Joe looks like Sid, the sloth character in the movie Ice Age. Totally! I'm afraid, they're separated at birth.

Doggie language - what your dog is trying to tell you

Max and Joe's mum here.

The three of us were spending quiet time at home while dad is away at work. We were browsing through our favourite page on Facebook, Life withDogs, and something caught my attention. The doggies thought it's a good poster and suggested I post it here, for educational purposes, for dog-owners like me.

This is a really fun poster! Although my dogs are not Boston terriers but dogs are dogs and their language is universal. I can say that Max and Joe are doing a lot of stuff that I see on the poster above.

Now, it is sooooooooo nice to know that both Max and Joe have been saying "Hello. I Love You!" to me and my husband every morning we wake up. We get that every day! Awwwwww, my heart just melted. Yes, doggies, we love you both, too!

Guess who's the lovebug who loves a lot of butt-scratching from us, eh? Who else but Joe? Max has recently learned to do it as well!

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N.B.  The above poster is an artwork by a flicker user named lili.chin. You can find it here and in her Facebook Page called Doggie Drawings (click the link).

Pet Pride 046: Doggies' Day Out

Look who's very happy to be going out for a roadtrip again? This "now" photo of Max (right) and Joe (left)  was taken very recently, two days ago to be exact. 

Are you winking at me, Joe, hmmm?

Joe has improved a lot when traveling by car. He was making this squeaking noise and was restless in the car but,  half an hour later, he became relaxed. Max, on the other hand, is used to traveling. We took her everywhere, especially when we relocated for a work assignment in rural Cambodia  in 2006, when she was only about six months old. We took her to work, traveling sandwiched between me and my husband who drove the motorcycle.  How she loved it. We only acquired Joe in 2009 when we moved back to the city.

I have a similar photo taken of them some years ago. We just got back from the vet's after getting their yearly booster shots.

Look who has the longer tongue between the two!

The "then" photo was posted in Pet Pride (here). It is interesting to note that they are still in the same exact places, a few years later.

Notice any differences? Hahahaha.

Pet Pride 045: A portrait of Max

Max's turn for a portrait. Unfortunately, we do not have the fancy camera so I used my trusty point-and-shoot-digicam :)

I think Max has an interesting, if not, funny face. Lol.

Pet Pride 044: A portrait of Joe

My younger brother came over to our house yesterday. He always brings with him his nice DSLR camera. He took several portraits of Joe and Max - but Max really has never warmed up to him and to any camera. But Joe - he's the exact opposite. He loves the camera and, oh, how the camera loves him back!

Oops, not too close to the camera, Joe.

Yes, those big pair of ears and round eyes... it runs in the family! Lol.

Pet Pride 040: Getting ready for the Fur-lympics 2012

Yo, yo, homies. Wee're back! Joe eez speaking. Mum pwameezed a comeback post but eet haz bin three months since. I meez mah homies at Pet Pride and Camera Critters, eezpecially Bozo, ma bezt buddy!

 Hope you steell come and find me heer, ma freendz. We eez kool togetha eevery Sateerday.

 I heerd someone named Rafael Nadal, eez a famous sportsman from Spain, decided to pull out of dee Olympics. I eez thought maybe I can haz heez place. After all, I eez Ra-fur-el Nadal, mum told me :) So I and Dad eez training hard theeze days.

I eez Ra-fur-el Nadal, and I eez love tennis (balls). I eez getting ready for the Fur-lympics next month.

Dad sez I eez need to paw-cus on da ball. But Uncle Jake eez taking my peekchur so I eez look at da camera. Look, Mum! All paws off the ground. Zee how effortless I eez make dat look ;) Dad, ken I haz new tennis balls, nao?

Pet Pride 038: Siesta

Conversation between Joe and the neighbour's white dog. We'll call her Whitey.

Whitey: Arf! Arf! Hi, Joe...

Joe: Yo, Whitey. How's it going, mah frend?

Whitey: Not bad. Can you come down and play?

Joe: Wait. I'll ask mum.... Muuuuummm, can I go down and play?

Mum: I'm sorry, honey. Too hot. And it's siesta-time.

Joe: But muuuuummmm... Whitey's mum lets her play at this time...

Mum: Hush, now. You must take a nap. You're a growing dog... See Whitey? She will never grow bigger than she is now. That's because she doesn't take naps...

Joe: Errrmmmm, okay. (turning to Whitey). Sorry, Whitey. Mum says I gotta take a nap...

Whitey: Ngarf!

Mum: (to herself) Good boy! hehehehe.

Pet Pride 037: Smelly Mummy

I made this up, of course, but it sure does crack me up. Joe, you're such a hoot! Love, Mum.

Mum: Heya, Joe. What's up? How are you? Come shake my hand. {Offering my hand}


Joe: Uhm, Muuuum... {sheepish now} but... your hand is smelly!


Mum: ULK!!! {redfaced!}

Cute bouncing puppy

This short video clip made me smile:





Cuteness overload! The baby and the puppy are just too cute for words, lol. In the beginning I was thinking that maybe, just maybe, the over-excited dog just wants to have her ball back... What do you think?

Joe says he can jump higher than that... especially when he is very excited to see his dad coming home from work! He added he is willing to teach the puppy how to make it or how to successfully jump on the bed on a first try, lol.

Pet Pride 032: Dogspector McJoe on duty

This is Joe's day job. Nothing comes in without him inspecting it first.

Two paws up. Everything A-OK and approved by Dogspector McJoe.

I came home from the Post Office with this box of goodies that I bought online. It was filled with shopping purchases from an online shopping site. Joe immediately went to work, sniffing the box for a few minutes. Only after Dogspector McJoe was satisfied and gave his pawprint of approval was I able to open the box! Good job, Joe!

By the way, Dogspector McJoe insisted I pixelise his face for security purposes, lol.

Pet Pride 029: Breaking news - a standoff!

Uh-oh, looks like we have a situation here. Someone is in deep, deep trouble.

This actually happened two Sundays ago.

Joe was caught red-handed with a slab of pork chop in his mouth. It was our dinner! A standoff ensued. Joe, a two-year old mutt, refused to release the piece of meat despite the demands of his dad. He was coaxed and bribed but the dog stood to his ground.

The photo doesn't show the "Pool of Drool" on the floor very well. lol.

We had to scramble to find something to distract him. His dog chew? Didn't work. A piece of his favourite chocolate candy! At the sound of the rustling plastic wrapper he immediately loosened his grip, surrendered the meat peacefully and in orderly fashion to the waiting hands of my husband, thus, ending the standoff that lasted for 15minutes. Without losing a beat Joe then approached me albeit sheepishly to claim his treat. Hahahaha.

No one was harmed, just so you all know. Joe was only reprimanded and he admitted to the media that he was remorseful for what happened. He also apologised to his dad for delaying dinner and to his mum for causing a bit of excitement and extra work/time to make another dinner.

Oh, well. All's well that ends well.

For this week's Pet Pride here at MyDogspot, this is the mum reporting. Over and out.

Pet Pride 028: This time it's Max

I was rummaging through the pictures stored in my external drive and look what I found ---

... a very young Max! She's about 2-3months when this picture was taken, and she was already showing a liking for dark beer!

Pet Pride 027: The Adventures of the Invisible Dog Joe!

I eez invizible.

... especially when no one eez looking!

Joe's Mum here. This is one of my favourite photos of Joe when he was about two-three months old. He likes to pretend he is the Invisible Dog whenever he sees me toting the camera.

Pet Pride 025: Sitting on whose toes?

 

 

 

Joe: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it…  Hmmm… is it just me, or, am I sitting on something? I’m not comfy…

 

Mum: Aheerrrmmm…. Excuse me, Joe, you might want to haul your fat behind off my toes…