Our 2 jie jie's advance B'dae celebration chalet on 14 dec 2009!!!

Today, we celebrate our jie jies(Betty & Sharon) 21st birthday at Hometeam NS Chalet!

The foods and cakes....



The Vanilla cake is for Sharon Jie Jie and Chocolate cake for Betty Jie Jie..

Amber, Dawn and Snowy in our Chalet!!!




We(ADS) instantly became the centre of attractions...


Some fun moments there...

Bye Bye Boring Days.. Hello Freedom!!!!!

Say Hello to freedom!!!!

Finally, today is the last day of the 2 weeks resting period for Amber...

After the soooo looooong time of resting period, today is Amber's 1st day out of the cage the whole day, and without the E-Collar on... and get to PLAY!!!!!

OS from Amber: finally i get to have my favorite Rug toy BACK!!!! i miss my toy so muchhhh!!!

Tomorrow, Amber's walking routine will slowly return to the normal routine!!!!!

Amber's wound has recover pretty well too!

Impaled in freak accident, Smokey the Chi Hua Hua, survived for days before it was removed

Michelle Duncum / Cumberland Valley Animal Hospital
Smokey the Chihuahua ran away and hid after he got a barbecue fork lodged several inches into his skull.
Here he is shown at the animal hospital shortly before veterinarians successfully removed it.


By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 9:39 a.m. ET July 17, 2009
They stuck a fork in little Smokey. It wasn’t on purpose.

The July 4 barbecue out in London, Ky., was
over and they were just trying to feed the Chihuahua pup a
few scraps when the prongs popped off the barbecue
fork and hit the poor little fellow in the head.

One of the prongs found a soft spot and sank right
in — three inches deep. A one-in-a-million shot,
said the vet; maybe one-in-a-trillion.

As Hughie Wagers, Smokey’s lanky owner, explained
it on TODAY Friday, it was all because of the bigger
dogs that were also eager for some juicy scraps.
Wagers apparently wasn’t on the scene at the time,
but his sister told him what happened.

Dog gone
“My sister was raking off food for the bigger dogs,” Wagers told
Matt Lauer as Smokey, oblivious to all the fuss, slept on
his lap, a little scar on his head the only sign of his status
as a miracle pooch. “She was raking it off a plate to ’em.
Smokey, he came out of the house — she was shooing
the big dogs off. She had the fork in her hand, and somehow,
it just popped right off the handle, and she looked around
and it hit Smokey in the head. And when it hit him, he run off.”

Other accounts of the incident say that Smokey also yelped,
which would be an understandable thing for a dog — or any
other critter — to do. And then he headed for the hills, the fork
sticking out of his head like a weird antenna. Everybody at
the barbecue called and looked for him, but the 12-week-old pup’s
instincts took him deep into the brush where nobody could find him.
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Michelle Duncum / Cumberland Valley Animal Hospital
Staff at Cumberland Valley Animal Hospital had never seen
anything like the fork stuck in Smokey's head.They kept looking for two more days, and by
then, with that fork stuck in him, they thought he was done.

“They thought he was dead,” Wagers confirmed
in an easy country drawl. “Then I happened to
pop up and they told me about it. It so happened
we walked on the porch and Smokey was coming
out of the hills up the driveway.”

Remarkable return
Smokey seemed to be in reasonably good
shape, considering the fork in his head and
all — although he did tend to walk in circles.
He even had something to eat while Wagers and
his family were trying to figure out what to do.

“I got him and took him in the house,” Wagers said,
picking up the narrative. “They didn’t know what to
do with him, so I thought may as well take him
to Cumberland Valley Animal Hospital.”

The veterinary clinic is run by Dr. Keaton Smith,
who started working for a vet 25 years ago when
he was 15. When his staff saw the pup, they called him to take a look.

“They told me there was a dog with a fork in his head,” said Smith, who joined Wagers and Smokey for the interview with Lauer.

"When I came in I about
passed out,” Smith continued.
“This is not real. They come in a panic,
as you can imagine, and we were
closing for the day.”

The vet explained that puppies, like human infants,
have soft spots in their heads. Had Smokey been an
adult dog, the fork probably would have bounced off
with no more damage than a cut. But the sharp tine
found the soft spot and sank right in. The second
tine ended up snug against the right side of
Smokey’s sad-eyed little head.

Unforking Smokey
Smith’s first thought was to euthanize the poor little guy. But then
he thought about how he already had survived two days with the fork
in his head. Dogs’ circulatory systems are very good at sealing off
cuts and minimizing bleeding, and he decided there might be a chance
of saving Smokey.

“I said, ‘He survived two days. Let’s take some X-rays anyway.’ We started there,” he said.

A bit more to the right, and the tine would have caused serious brain damage. But it happened to hit a less vital part of the
Chihuahua’s little brain.


Cumberland Valley Animal Hospital
This X-ray shows the barbecue fork lodged several inches into Smokey’s brain.

Smith anesthetized Smokey, shaved around the fork, and pulled. The tine came out easily and cleanly, with just a drop or two of blood. Smith stitched up the wound, and brought Smokey out of anesthesia.

“He did wake up weird,” Smith told Lauer. At first, the pup walked in circles to its right and was disoriented. But in a couple of days, the dog reset its internal compass and, other than a droopy right eyelid, seems to be doing as well as a forked Chihuahua could possibly do. In fact, because Smokey’s still a pup, Smith expects that his brain will totally recover.

Smokey stretched a little and rearranged himself more comfortably on Wagers’ lap, but never did wake up during his three minutes of TODAY fame.

Quipped Smith: “He’s definitely a lap potato.”

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/31961560/ns/today_pets/

Pet shop owners must attend class

From Jan 2010, pet shop owners are required to attend a compulsory pet care and management course.

Shop owners will learn about regulatory requirements, animal care and management, occupational health and safety, and business ethics and management.

The course will be conducted by Temasek Polytechnic and is supported by the Pet Enterprises and Traders Association and the Workforce Development Agency.

Training for the different pet retail sectors will be phased in, starting with those which sell dogs, cats and small mammals like rabbits and hamsters, Madam Ho Geok Ho, member of Parliament for the West Coast constituency announced on Sunday.

This new regulation comes on the heels of a call for increased regulation of pet grooming shops in Singapore.

A few months back, a Maltese terrier had died during routine grooming. A post-mortem on his dog located bleeding in the head, possibly from being struck.

Seven complaints of pets dying during grooming sessions were reported in the past year, the SPCA told The New Paper.

Under the Animals and Birds Act, any person found guilty of committing an act of animal cruelty can be fined up to $10,000 or jailed up to 12 months, or both.

Source: http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne...29-182945.html

Snowy's 3rd Birthday!!! (2009)

Today's Snowy's 3rd birthday!!!

Jies jies(Sharon & Betty) together with mum, prepared a special birthday feast(consists of Pork Liver, Little Bok Choy aka Xiao Bai Cai and Wolf Berry aka Gou Qi Zi) to celebrate!!

(Fresh Ingredients)


(Cooking in process)


(Done!!)


(After some time of cooling period, it's mixed into the big bowl with dry kibbles+rice and finally properly served into ADS's individual bowl)


(ADS enjoying the special feast!)


Happy 3rd Birthday Snowy!!!

The 1st few days after the operation for Amber's sterilization...

The 1st few days...

Other than going for the really short walk, (Amber usually have 3 walks(15 to 30 mins) per day has been shorten to a 10 mins walk once daily as no excessive excerise is allowed between the 2 weeks of recovery period... )amber mostly spent her time in Snowy's cage...

Other than walking time and meal time, the E-Collar was always on her neck...(As Amber is quite a naughty little brat that she would be licking her wound a lot..)

OS from Jie jie(Sharon): Amber, be a good girl... you're doing great so far.. bear with it for 2 weeks ok?? after 2 week,s your normal walking routine will resume and no more E-collar on your neck..

OS from Amber: but i wanna play!!! everytime during walkie time, you don't allow me to walk at all!! you simply carry me all the way to the grass patch and let me do my "potty", when i'm done, you carry me again to another grass patch even when i have yet to take a step!!!

OS from Jie jie(Sharon): awww... it pains me to see you whining coz suddently you lost all your freedom to walk and play... but to stay in the cage to rest and sleep... it'll end soon... good girl, just bear with it...

Quarantine rules waived for pets imported from countries with low rabies risk

SINGAPORE : From next year, dogs and cats brought in from countries with a low risk of rabies will no longer need to be quarantined.



This is part of a review by the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) to ease import restrictions for animals, while keeping Singapore free from rabies.

Under current rules, new pet dogs or cats that are imported have to be placed on a 30-day quarantine at the AVA's Sembawang Animal Quarantine Station.

This is to ensure Singapore remains rabies-free, which it has been for the past 50 years.

The only exception is for pets brought in from Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland, which are free from the deadly disease.

But from January, the quarantine-exempt list will be expanded to include pets from low-risk countries such as Japan, Hong Kong and Norway.

The authorities will focus on blood tests, rabies vaccines and microchip identification of the animals to guard against infection.

On another pet-related matter, the AVA - which oversees the import and licensing of pets and pet shops - is making it compulsory for pet shop operators to be trained in areas like animal care and management.

Dr Maliki Osman, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of National Development, said: "Pet shops play a very critical role in ensuring that pet owners understand their responsibility. We do not want a situation where pet owners go to the shop and they buy a pet, and...that is it, they have a pet, and they think they can be good pet owners."

Dr Maliki said pet shops will be able to pass off their knowledge and animal management skills to pet owners, and help them learn how to handle their new pets.

Authorities receive about 8,000 pet-related complaints every year, of which 60 include dog biting incidents.

Other complaints include stray pets, failure to clean up after dogs and incessant dog barking.

Over 300 abandoned pets are sent each month to animal shelter, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stori...021325/1/.html

Cruelty of human beings: Cat tied to pipe struggled before choking to death

STOMPer Angela was brought to tears when she saw this dead stray cat at Block 205 Toa Payoh North, apparently a victim of abuse.

Said the STOMPer:

"See what happened to our darling stray cat this morning (Nov 22) at Block 205 Toa Payoh North near the water pipe.

"Every time we pass by the area we just have to call out 'Meow' and these cats approach us for a little cuddle and stroking.

"But this morning when one went missing we presumed our little tabby was lazy but what a rude shock we got, that brought us to tears.

"We captured these pictures using our handphones.

"A string was wound around the cat's neck and tied to the water pipe.

"We called Central Police Station and they sent down two officers. The SPCA contacted me for their team to remove the cat.

"The struggle marks on the wall with bloodstains reflect the tabby cat's struggle to escape as it choked to death.

"This is the fate of the stray cats when faced with cruel two-legged HUMAN creatures and this upsets us animal lovers.

"Hello, everyone has a right to live in peace on this beautiful earth.

"Whoever did this will face retribution."



Source: http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/st...tribution.html