Anya and Jackie Wishbone

I was so delighted to hear from Audrey about Anya (Singapore). A newsy e-mail arrived followed by two more; each with an image attached.

And since I HAVE, finally, caught up with all A Gang news now so I am posting new news as it arrives (couldn't get THAT far behind again, LOL)!

Enjoy the images and a few lines from Audrey.

Still waiting for my boys to give me the instructions but while it seems that they do like to spend time on the computer, they definitely don't want to have a "class session with mum". I see those pics of the other pups and I keep wondering how those people are able to carry their dogs... But then I look at the dates and figure that most likely I could carry Anya back then too.... Not anymore! She is definitely not a carrying size/weight anymore! She is not fat by any stretch of the imagination, but very dense.

I will send you two photos I have taken with my Iphone since I do know how to do that. One is of Anya playing with Jackie Wishbone, our 11 year old Jack Russell. They only want to play with the same toy the other has all the time. Anya is large, so she just hangs on and drags Jackie around, like a big friendly bear, and Jackie is what Jack Russells are, growling and making herself seem 10 times bigger, as she is dragged by her end of the toy! the other photo is that of Anya going for a ride. She really really likes to go places with me, but of course since most of the Chinese here are not dog friendly, it is not like I can take her downtown or into stores! She now has her own dog seat belt that keeps her put and safe in the back seat, but every once in a while, she sneaks into the front seat for a short ride to pick up the boys and I let her stay with the "human" seat belt...

Anya did have to go to the emergency room the other day, as she was listless and had a fever of 40 C. None of the vets there had a clue as to what was wrong with her, so they just put her on a drip and kept her under observation. I just knew something was wrong because when a 5 month old very very active Wei is just hanging its head low and sitting there, that is not normal... The next day she was fine but we kept her calm and kept watch over her.. It could not have possibly been heat stroke (my first thought) because her walk for that day was at 7:30 am and for about 20 minutes and it is barely daylight here at that time. Her symptoms started about mid day. 

Mystery.

We had an appointment that day to go see a trainer to help us with some tips that I might be missing, but that got scrubbed because of her not feeling well.

I can get her to calm down pretty well (except first thing in the morning, or afternoon... or evening when she has not seen me for about 1 hour!...) and she does her commands well with me as we have a good bond. I am working on the heel but that is far away from being mastered! The sitting is mastered because of her absolute love of food!

All in all, we are doing well and today again we were at the beach. We go about once or twice a week.