Animals Anecdotes 24 : Goodbye Doggies - Dogs No More

The last dog standing, Brownie is officially gone. We are not sure about her where about and I refuse to think about the worst that could have happened to her. In many ways, I believe it is a good thing that all of them have set apart and go on with their own ways. Moving away and starting out new as how things goes along even for ourselves, humans.

So here is a goodbye to all those lovely dogs we have always enjoyed having around with and you will forever be remembered. All those funny antiques of you doggies, you guys are really a pack of characters.Life goes on and hopefully with more wonderful, colorful, interesting and lovely things to look forward to.

Goodbye Doggies!

[caption id="attachment_2010" align="aligncenter" width="264" caption="Silver and Joe "][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2011" align="aligncenter" width="277" caption="Maggie and Brownie (front - back)"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2012" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Blackie, Silver and Brownie (l-r)"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2013" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Silver's four puppies that we gave away for adoption"][/caption]

Animals Anecdotes 22 : Brownie and her few weeks old puppy

Ever since the puppy is born , Brownie the first time mama has been doing a pretty good job at nursing her one and only puppy. Her little baby should be about 3 weeks or so old by now and we first saw a glimpse of this little guy ( a male puppy) just a couple of days back.

I can't really capture a proper picture of this little fella because he is still only playing around under the dark sandy area of the cabin. However, we are so glad to see how healthy he has turned out to be. The little puppy is well fed by Brownie and he is so chubby and round with the the same light brown skin colour as his mother, Brownie. Currently, he is wobbling his way through while walking. He still has one eye closed with the other one only half open but man, the little guy can make a loud but cute yelp when we started calling him. Haha.

Overall, it is pleased to say that Brownie's few weeks old little puppy is in a pink of health and we hope that he will grow up healthy and a chirpy, smart and happy puppy just like his mother. :)

Animals Anecdotes 16 : Down to one doggie

The official head count for the number of dogs right now is one. Joe  the sole, male dog decided to leave the cabin and left Brownie, the young female dog on her own. Joe has been pretty moody since Maggie (alpha female dog, Brownie's mum) is gone. He wasn't doing much 'work' which is to escort everyone ever since Maggie went missing.

[caption id="attachment_1450" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="One of the last pics taken of Brownie and Maggie together. Brownie is the one with the bushy tail."][/caption]

As for Brownie, she's doing great. We've been feeding her with those Pedigree biscuits instead of the usual mix of rice and chicken or fish because she doesn't look like she has much of an appetite after her mum is gone. The best thing about Brownie is that she'll be wagging her tail like crazy every time we come around, so that's a good sign that she still gets excited on seeing us coming. Although she hasn't been 'escorting' the gang for almost a week, she did come to look for us yesterday when we didn't make a stop at the cabin for quite a long time.

[caption id="attachment_1451" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Say hi to Brownie!"][/caption]

It is kind of sad to see Brownie staying all alone at the cabin. From a pack of 4, later 5 then more than 5 (because of some newborn puppies) and the number kept decreasing until a single dog - Brownie, who happens to be the first one to venture around the cabin and hopefully she will stick around for sometime. We do know dogs are a social animal, so we just going to wait and see on how long Brownie will be around or probably other 'nice, non-barking breed' will join her in the future, we'll just never know.

Oh, talking about non-barking breed, the dogs we have around the cabin are the quite type. The are fast runners, small in build, pretty short and they hardly even bark. They will only make a noise when they see something like snakes or birds that they wanted to catch or simply to communicate to one another if they are far away from each other. Other than that, if you expect them to bark at strangers or even stray buffaloes, you need to do a big time 'coercing' to get them to just bark. They are so quiet and super silent unlike that annoying, tiny, sausage dog that my neighbour has. 'The sausage' has been barking for every 5 minutes for more than an hour at 5 ish am for a couple of days now. I don't know what it was trying to do and I blame it on the owner, not the dog. :(