Monday, April 14, 2008
"Normal rants" @ 2:48 AM
I'm on a blogging slowdown these days.... pretty obvious innit?
Life is good and all, I can say for certain that I am blissfully happy, content right now albeit being constantly tired and sleep deprived. I would be happier if all the editorial board and student council work were magically done for me. As if though. As if.
This Sunday I had the best sleep in roughly 3 weeks. When was the last time I woke up at 12.30pm? And to wake up to do virtually nothing of significant importance?
Now here I am, still awake keeping Bubbles company as she sleeps on my laptop case. She's been feeling a little drowsy the entire day, been sleeping it off mostly. Yesterday mum and I finally brought her to the vet to check up on the rashes she had. It turned out that she had food allergies, the young vet (whom I just must mention, is so cute-looking! <3) said that Bubbles, as like many dogs, was allergic to beef... mum thinks otherwise.
See, we've always fed Bubbles dog food right, sometimes there's beef flavor in it too right, but so far she's never had any skin disease reactions to it. Lately I haven't been the one doing the feedings, therefore I don't quite know what goes on, let alone control what my family feeds her. So what happened was, that my mother fed her some tiny shrimps leftover from the soup after cooking
ban mee the other day. It was after that moment that the dog had rashes all over her, the neck area more prominent than the rest.
Like, goodness! My dog is allergic to prawns!
like me!!!!Bubbles is alright now, though. She got extremely upset and angry at me for force feeding her the medications prescribed by the vet yesterday. Usually when she senses that I'm leaving the house, Bubbles would make a bee-line to the main door and bolt out the grilled gate before anyone of us could catch up. This time she ignored me as I left the house to head to Subang. Hours later, she ignored me again upon my return.
The only consolation I got out of all this, was that she was also blatantly ignoring my mother. Mum tried to feed her the evening round. Crazy as this sounds, but I don't want to be the only one hated by her
ma....
Still...
Bubbles made it clear that she totally hated me for making her suffer disgusting medicines. Before either of us goes to sleep in the room she'd usually jump on my bed first, we'd frolic around before I push her off the bed again. Yesterday night she wouldn't even budge into the room despite my incessant callings. All she did was stare me down, waiting. My sister was in the room then, so I made her call the dog. Lo, she bolted into the room to my sister on the first call, tails wagging and all.
Ouch.
I tried coaxing her again for awhile. Didn't really work out between us, and it was so sad. After my sister left to her own room Bubbles went straight under my bed, never coming out until daybreak.
Today we changed the method of feeding her medicine. Instead of force feeding the stubborn bugger, we masked the pills between two tiny pieces of bread spreaded with kaya. It totally worked like a charm. I've not seen bread dissapear so fast in my life.
With that done, Bubbles has been in a more forgiving mood. I think she's alright with mum too, cause she allowed mum to blow dry and comb her hair after I've given her a bath. She's now willing to hang around by my side again though, so things are back to normal.
We even had a nap together on my bed =)
