Good Homes

Went to pass BM's documents to Serene this afternoon. Those documents do not belong to us anymore. Baileys and Maen do not belong to us anymore...

It's hard sorting through their documents. We have receipts of each of their first vet visits, sterilization cert, the export to Tucson and import back to Singapore certs and a thick stack of documents, vet visits in Tucson, food receipts, their first license etc.... We're hoping to give only what is necessary and keep the rest to remember them by.

A little update on them:

Baileys:
He's been adopted by the boss of Tong Heng according to Serene. Mr Liow went "Wow!" and not wanting to sound ignorant, I kept silent and will ask Mr Liow what company Tong Heng was. After a while, I couldn't hold any longer and ask. Tong Heng is the cake shop beside Maxwell Food Centre I think. I asked but while Serene was explaining, ER had to start fidgeting...
-__________-".

She a single lady in her 50s, and healthy (so Baileys will not be orphaned but by then if he really is *touch a big tree*, ER should be old enough and he can come home to us! Anyway, she has a Jap Spitz who's the apple of her eye. She liked Baileys but had no intention of adopting him initially.

Her Jap Spitz was boarded with Serene for a week or so and this lady, when she came back for her furkid, appeared to like B. She had concerns that B will bully her Spitz whom she so loves dearly but Serene assured her B is the typical gentle CKCS. Serene had turned away many of those who appear interested because those do not appear to be people we can entrust the furkiddos to. This lady is a regular customer and Serene knows how she will treat B like treasure if he does go home with her.

She took B home to see if the dogs can get along and they did. B has been there since and Serene assured us B is very loved at his new home. He has a Cantonese name now. He's now "Kong kong", meaning healthy in Cantonese.

Serene has a picture of B with his new buddy. They were both lying on his new mummy's sofa.

That's cool. B and M have always loved to lie on sofas but since AN came, they weren't allowed to do that much. Now B gets to have all that again. And he gets cooked vegetables together with kibbles every meal.


Maen:
Maen got a lot of interested adopters. Why are we not surprised? She's cute, small, silly and very very very affectionate. My silly girl has always been a little charmer.

Guess who she's with now? She's with the family of Mastercard's VP.

Ok, I don't know who he is but that sounds like a very rich family she's gone to. She has a Shih Tzu companion now. It's an ang mo (Caucasian but we have yet to find out which country he was from) with a Singaporean wife. No kids and supposingly not in planning. Im sure both B and M will love to have kids in their new family but I just hope the family is not in our situation now. 2 young kids and no helper.

Maen will still be called Maen. In fact they call her " Mei Mei" which is what we always call her besides Maen.

Bad news is, they took her to the vet for a regular checkup and detected slight heart murmur....the last they had a checkup, it was in Tucson before we came back a year ago. The vet confidently told us they were healthy. Not just fit to fly back, but healthy with no major concerns. I distinctly remembered asking about heart murmurs because they were 5 years old then and he said they were both fine. Both their hearts sound good. Why at age 6 is her heart in trouble now...

This is not something we can hear and ignore.. :( when Mr Liow told me last night, I couldn't sleep well..Maen has heart murmur...

Serene said the new owners told her it's very slight and she doesn't even need to be medicated for it. I sure pray so...

And Maen has a weak knee. It 'clacks' when she moves her hind leg on one side. All the while I thought that was just stiff limbs because e 'clacking' happens only once in a while.

Serene says the new owners love them both to bits. We are assured to hear that but do not feel any less guilty. We have given up the best things that happened to us during the start of our lives together..Snippets of the time we spent together kept flashing across my mind..

My sole consolation is, they still have k9 companions. Maen has a SAHM with her and Baileys has a single mum who shares her love between only him and his buddy, and no one else.

We can't wait to meet them. Give them a few more weeks maybe, and at the first convenience of their new parents, we will pay them a visit.

As much as we miss them (we had been getting itchy patches on our bodies, ESP AN and I. Mr Liow says we are allergic to NO dog fur....!!), i feel happy knowing that when I'm away from home everyday, they are with people who love them and not neglected, waiting for us to come home.

We pray they will be healthy and happy. Please Lord, watch over them. Please do not let Maen's heart murmur worsen. In fact, we pray the next time the vet listens to her heart, it will be as normal as any k9's. And also, please keep her from reaching for the skies every time she jumps. Please protect her bad knee...

ER, unlike AN, will never know the joy of having fur siblings...he was with us at Pet Instinct and giggled when he heard a dog barking in the background. The moment the dog stopped barking, ER appeared to snap out of a trance and started staring around the unfamiliar store before crying in fear of the environment. Just a month ago, he was enjoying facials given by Maen and giggling at Baileys who had been sneezing.

I don't know what to make of this...is what we have, or do not have now, good or bad?

We miss the fur kids...