Vet Visit

This morning, mummy, daddy and I took Nikki to the Vet as it was time for her to get her 2nd immunisation. We took her to another Vet before but decided not to bring her there this time. That place doesn't even look like a vet, more like a drug addict hideout, so we are afraid that the vet might be bogus. No record was taken as the Vet said it's not needed (sounds fishy). So we took her to Yeoh's Veterinary in Taman Megah instead.

At the vet there were many other dogs, mostly Labradors and Beagles. There was this Shih Tzu that has a broken lower jaw :( So its tongue is always hanging outside since its jaw can't close. The owner had to feed him all the time and the vet couldn't fix the jaw as there is not enough space to fit the wire in. The reason why its jaw was broken because its owner sent it for grooming and I guess they didn't handle her properly.The groomer refused to explain what had happened and just gave the dog back to its owner. I guess the groomer must have treated the dog really harsh till its jaw broke.

The vet took some blood sample from her ear, by poking a hole at the tip of her ear and then squeezing the blood out *ouch!* Nikki also has ear mites infection so she got another jab which really hurts. Pain was written all over her face *sniff sniff* Now she is feeling weak after the jabs and won't be active for some time.

Family Tree

-Nikki's roots-

Nikki's grandpa

Nikki's father ( Destiny )

Destiny

Nikki's mother ( Isabella )

Nikki and her siblings

3 girls and 1 boy

Nikki and her sister

*These pictures do not belong to me

Eating Habits

Humans definitely have eating habits, and everyone has their own unique one. However, I didn't know that even dogs have eating habits.

Nikki has a weird eating habit which we noticed the first time we gave her her doggie food. She takes a few pieces and puts them down on the floor somewhere else, then only eats them. After finishing, she goes back to her bowl and continue doing this till the food finishes. She tends to drop her food on the floor while chewing but she never fails to pick them all up before getting new ones.

First Exposure to The Camera

For the first time peeps, meet Nikki!

The curly end of her ears will be more prominent when it grows longer. I'll take photos of her without the cage soon, currently busy training her so she's not allowed to run around outside the cage most of the time.

Tyra Banks always says "Smile with your eyes"

And I think Nikki always does smile with her eyes =)

Potty Mess

It is indeed difficult to train a dog to pee and poo at a specific place. We have been trying a few methods and so far nothing seems to work. We wanted her to do her business in the toilet but she somehow just refuses and we can't really have it in the toilet if not it will be unusable anymore. We placed a plank over the toilet bowl to avoid her falling into it. Yea my house still has those squatting kind of toilet bowls. And so Plan A didn't work. Moving on to Plan B - making her pee and poo on newspapers.

Currently working on it, hoping that she recognises the smell of newspapers when she pees on it every time. Every 2 hours or so we would bring her out to the garden to pee, but sometimes she doesn't. So, we monitor her almost ALL the time. *tiring* Since she has not mastered this skill, she is not allowed to sleep in my room with me. So, Nikki better be a good girl if she wants better comfort. She doesn't bark AT ALL when she want to go pee, so we have to observe other behaviour of hers.



Mission possible : Train Nikki to pee and poo at the correct place!

Welcome to The Hood

On the 16th of November 2008, I was surfing the net on dogs. I was more interested in smaller toy dogs compared to those huge dogs. As I was browsing through the pictures, I came across a very beautiful dog but with an unusual name - Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.



I fell in love immediately with that dog and I knew i had to have a dog of that breed. So the next day, I was calling pet stores asking them about this dog but all of them said that it is hard to get this breed. I decided to search online for breeders instead, and finally I found one!



On the 18th of November 2008, Dad, Mum and I went to the breeder's house to view the puppy, and we bought it! Nikki is now part of the family :)


Few facts about Nikki
1) The tip of Nikki's ear's are curly
2) Nikki slides whenever she walks or sits
3) She doesn't bark (unless offended )

Nikki's Diet

Nikki currently consumes Blackwood puppy dog food which is said to be better than Eukanuba, and thus MORE costly. She is a big eater for such a small-sized pup, but she is expected to be bigger in size than her mother when she grows up.

Ingredients

Poultry Meal, Ground Rice, Ground Corn, Chicken Fat [Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols (Source of Vitamin E) and Citric Acid], Plain Dried Beet Pulp (Sugar Removed), Dried Potato Product, Menhaden Fish Meal, Brewers Dried Yeast, Natural Flavors, Dried Whole Eggs, Flax Meal, Lecithin, Potassium Chloride, Salt, Calcium Carbonate, DL-Methionine, Dried Cheese, L-Lysine, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Dried Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Ascorbic Acid, Dried Garlic, Vitamin E Supplement, Biotin, Niacin Supplement, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin A Acetate, Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Menadione Dimethylpyrimidinol Bisulfite (Source Of Vitamin K Activity), Citric Acid, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Zinc Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Manganese Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Manganous Oxide, Sodium Selenite, Calcium Iodate

At 3-4 weeks of age, begin feeding pups BLACKWOOD Puppy softened with warm water. Feed as much as they will consume three times a day. Introduce puppies to dry food as soon as possible and keep bowl filled