Gone are the days....

I've always wanted a dog as a pet when I'm a child, then during my teens, and even now in my 20s, I did not even have any animals as my pet.

I came to close contact to dogs when I start to work for dad at workshop as he kept 2 dogs as his faithful security guards. As they are huge, I'm not really attracted to them as they don't look too friendly and not too clean. I mean they constantly have slivers at the edge of their mouth & they smell.

I started to grow fond of them as my uncle didn't really take good care of them, especially in terms of their daily meals. He just come once in a day to feed them, moreover, it's the same meal EVERYDAY! Yuck! Imagine having bread mixed with some other stuff, I really don't know what he had the bread cooked with, I don't think so I'll be able to survive with it every single day and the same meal!

Worst, just a meal a day when a human had probably fixed 3 meals a day, or if lucky, 5 meals a day. How to survive for such a big dog. I sometimes had to ask "H" to get some bones for the dogs by just 'tapau' Chicken rice from the stall so I can buy from them. Both the dogs are named, "Ruby" - an old female yellow dog & "Boy" - just a year & a half black male dog.

Besides that, the shop across us also have few dogs. One in particular is extra short & extra arrogrant. He'll drop by our shop and gave some fiercy barks for no reason while scratching himself. He also loves to scratch himself in the middle of the road, fearing no car coming at all! The neighbour didn't really take care of the dogs, so most of the dogs also have skin problems. Sometimes, it's just hurtful to see them suffer like this and didn't have an actual satisfying meal.

It was just very unfortunate that this dog was run over by a lorry, it happened right in front of our shop. I still remembered him crying out loud, saying goodbye & kissing the other dog just before he passed away. It was so sad. Then, came another street dog which I believe, someone threw her away. She's a pretty one, with her four feets in white & other part of the body in black.

I've never heard her bark before and she's super happy whenever she see's you. Though, she's not so active in the day and always sleeping here & there and hangs out nearby our shop. Sometimes, when I returned home at night, she'll switched her hang out place to the shops below my house. She's hyper active at night whenever I get to bump into her at night! One bad habit that she also likes to sleep in the middle of the road! What's wrong with all the dogs?! Unfortunately, she too got caught by MPSJ officials when they came clearing the street dogs.

With 2 of the dogs missing in my life, I gave my attention to "Boy" again. He's a cutie, eventhough he's big, he never bites and is very playful. He's extremely hyper active when you're feeding him, I guess the food my uncle gave him is just not enough. Imagine a meal a day, I can't too. I just started to get close to him, started to pat him and he loves it.....and unfortunately, he was sick all of a sudden.

He lose his appetite and didn't want to eat. Then, he started to throw up and wasn't as happy before, he was not himself. Though we told my uncle few times, he just fed him Panadol. On this particular day, on the 23rd August, he just sat at one corner with his back facing us. Though we called him few times, he doesn't want to look at us and soon after, he passed away.

It is so sad that I had to watch 3 dogs passed away this year alone. I'm not sure if I should really keep a dog as my pet in future.....as it could be just so hurtful for them to leave us.