(The Biography Of The Deceased,Disappearance and 'Unfortunate' Events)
All dogs go to heaven, all goldfish be flushed down the toilet bowl and all tortoises outlive us(???). Apparently,there's aint any single pet at home right now. Whether it didnt quite 'make' it(most of em') or just ran away =) Dont misinterpret that we are cruel ppl to the animals,we fed them good ok...U'll find out why
My pets (in order of appearance)
1.Hermit crabs
I was bout 4 years old back then,so dont blame me if i cant remember all the events. My dad used to take me to morning markets to have breakfast and a walk around. Somehow at one morning,he agreed to get me something to amuse me. There's this man squating infront of a few plastic bowls. Inside,there were like whole lot of small shells...various sizes and shapes. It does move around a lil,but for some reason the crab doesnt pop out at all. Heck with it,so i just chosed a few nice,medieum-sized and clean shells.
So we kept in inside this small plastic aquarium(u can still see this kinda aquariums widely used till now). And it emerged its head out!!! Yay,thts like so cool! Of course it looks sorta disgusting. Not to mention tht its darn strong. It escaped numerous times by forcing the cover off after piling up on top of each other to reach to the top (quite smart eh?) Then i'll be like "Head count,1...2...3...Hmm,This is not right. Means one is missing!!! It could be anywhere!" Lol,then it is,climbed all d way to the top of the curtains. What happened to it? i think dad threw it away after found dead for no reason in the aquarium
2. Bird
Yes, a bird...not birdS. I dont think my dad trust my interest into pets. Wise choice. Haha. Let see what i can remember bout the bird i used to have. It was black in colour. No,i wasnt a crow. Sorta positive bout tht. Wait,even the size and appearance looks like a crow *Thinking* Nope nope,no one will sell or rare crows. Doesnt make any friggin sense
ANYWAY,the way the bird was 'transferred' from the pet shop to my house with a pretty erm...laymen way. Picture this in your head now. A mcD paperbag with numerous holes on the top section. Yups,just insert the birdie in there and lets head home! 'Tapau' the bird back. lol.
One fine day(NOT the next day),i came back from sch. found the cage's door was wide open. Of course, the bird wasnt there. Cant imagine any birds will stay still there dumbly when such opportunity came. *waves* bye birdie,i couldnt even name you yet.
3. Tortoise and terrapins
Terrapin is known as 'sui yu'(water fish) for those of you whose wondering. It looks sorta gross with it soft and squirmish shell along with its pointy head. Apparently,it doesnt last long at all. It died within 2 weeks. Not to mention stinks like crap (maybe i didnt bother to change the water) =P
Should have just boiled it as soup while its still fresh
As for the tortoise,its quite an interesting fella. We took care of it well enough. Sighted swimming happily in the plastic aquarium(remember the hermit crabs?). Once a while,dad will buy live anchovies,loads of it...and just pour it for tht fella as his meals.
Now for the sadistic part. Another fine day,me and my 2nd sis were playin with the tortoise at the balcony,using an old spatula to carry it around. Everything looks fine UNTIL tht lil fella started to walk off the spatula!! Mind him, it was near the edge of the balcony.
"ARGHHH!!!! It jumped off the balcony!!!"
Lol,tht was the end of the tortoise's journey. Oh yeah,did i mention tht we were livin at the forth floor of the apartment? Good news, the fella's shell is still intact. Bad news,the content of the shell didnt quite make it. Haha. Talk bout suiciding reptiles.
(Something like tht,minus the happiness and Krabby Pattys)4.Rabbits
It was 2 cute,white,furry and fat rabbits. Apparently,we seperated them front having direct contact. Just dividing the cage into 2 parts. Life cycles goes on even for bunnies. Hehe
It just lived on with extra cabbage,fruits and veggies from the kitchen. Quite convenient as a disposal bin tho.
Mysteriously,one of it just fell dead (didnt see it dropping dead lah). Alrite,at least we still have one more.
Well,till death do them part...or not. Few days later,the other rabbit died as well! Either its some outbreak or the bunny died from loneliness.How sad...
5. Cats
It was my sis' fav. Cant quite remember the name tho. Cougar and Fellie? Shud be somethin close to tht. Just two brown/orangey cats which bump around the house. They used to start running to neighbour's house (we've shifted from the apartment) and heck we gotta get them back again.
One of it gaved me a 3 inches long wound on my hand as well. Give me a break,i only accidentally stepped on ur tail!!
Basically they were everywhere. There's a time when i was lying down on the bed by the side of the window. It just jumped in and on top of me from outside. Friggin startled me. Sheesh.
Somehow,it just mysteriously dispappeared from our sight one day. Didnt came back. Still a conspiracy tht maybe my parents took it away as the cats did caused various mess and damage to the house. Oh well,just a thought bout tht.
6. Hamsters!!!
Haha,i love these guys. A productive bunch. Imagine i started off with 2 of em'. 2 months later, i had like 10-15 of them.Oh yeah,their wonderful cage(or house). Aint really a cage tho. I was so amused by it as the setup of the house is completly up to ur imagination. Like playin LEGO =) Since all d entrance and parts are connectable. The pic roughly shows how it looks like. Not exactly what i had tho.
Lol,my dad is still raging bout such nonsentical and money-wasting such creation is...till today. So what happened to the hamsters in the end? Dad gave it away to the pet shop.Haha. Since apparently it multiply too fast and it stinks. Need to change d sawdust bout weekly basis.Phew,loads of trouble maintaining it tho.One of the grossest thing i've ever seen was the mother hamster eating its child! Its not by chewing but just swallowed it by the whole. Oh goodness.
7. Fishes
This is another fun process. Apparently,my dad got the interest of keeping fishes as well. All sorts of fish in the aquarium(not the plastic one,lol). Including the one they called it as 'bandaraya fish'. It looks like a stingray which just sticks to the side of the tank. Served the purpose of sucking up all the dirt and cleans up the water as well. Being such 'good' pets owner we are,it didnt last long as well. Pretty obvious all of em' started to die off. Knowing tht great attention are needed to keep it ALIVE.Nothin much bout it tho. Just swims around aimlessly.
8. Dogs
Hall of fame for the 2 dogs we had,Kimmy and Apple. The dogs are the one we care the most. Kimmy came into the picture first as a puppy given by our neighbour. Mixed breed of spitz mainly. Fed them well enough till Kimmy became a really round white furball. As for Apple,its more like a downtown rugged dog. Another neighbour found it in the box at the roadside i think,as a puppy. So we just took care of it knowing tht it might end up at the streets if we dont. A brown coloured mix breed of German sheppard (looks like one lah at least). Apple is way bigger than Kimmy. There's a time when it knocked me off the bicycle while it runs aimlessly and being excited (darn!!).
Its a self trained dog for Apple to retrieve letters from the letterbox as soon as the mailman drops it in. Quite cool huh? Apart from the saliva-filled letterheads. Lol, it 'killed' one of my hamsters as well!! There was a time when one of my hamsters ran out of my grip,ran to a corner and i think Apple accidentally put it inside her mouth and spit it back out. Haha,as i look closer to the saliva filled hamster,its dead. Shocked to its death.
Then there's this extraordinary story bout Apple. Both of our dogs are extrmely prone to loud noises and firecrackers. During one of the CNY season,Apple started to panic after the nonstop firecrackers sessions as she was scratching the front door and creating hell load of noise. We let her wander off outside for a while,to keep her quite as well as preventing the door from being damaged further. We never see her till that day. Apparently she ran off and didnt know its way back. Since she always come back no matter how far she is.
Now's the great part. One year later, as me and my sis walked back to our house. We saw Apple sitting in front of our gate.Looked rather dirty and skinny with a thin snapped rope bein tied to her neck.She did found her way home afterall. God knows where she have been but its really suprising.
Years later, Apple started to became ill. The vet said it might been poisoned(assumed tht she eat stuffs from the garbage area outside). The medicine didnt seemed to give her any positive feedbacks. She just lay down there motionless after we came back from dinner. Kimmy was far away from her (knowing tht usually she doesnt). So we sorta guessed tht...
The loneliness feeling can be spotted on Kimmy for the first few weeks. She was rather down,not-so-active and drfiting around. Its saddening tho. Kimmy had a great life as our pet dog. Although its fat,slow and barely did anything...still a nice pet to have around. She went thru 2 critical conditions. The first was tht she was sick. It looks sorta serious as she could barely moves. So dad took the trouble to mix the medicine into the raw eggs ( she loves em' and she refused to take the meds directly). After a week,she was cured.
But the same condition repeats, a few months later. Double of everything. Especially the sickness. Age is catching up on her tho. Through day and nite, she was howling like a puppy. It was howls filled with pain. More like screaming. She refused to eat or drink anything and her body is rejecting all d food we fed her.
One nite,she just let off a slow howl and she went off peacefully(sort off)
Among all, we felt the most for the 2 dogs. Let see, had Kimmy bout 7-9 years and Apple bout 5 years.Roughly bout there. Alot of trouble taking care of them,but yeah...still are great pets.I'm sure there's a good heaven for dogs =)
Yups,tht concludes all. Chances is tht we wont be gettin any more pets. This is the one point we felt that we dont want to rare any
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