this morning, i volunteered at the wanchai SPCA again. this time, i worked in the dog area rather than in the cattery. i am a major dog person. i did not know that i was a dog person until a cute, fuzzy little chow-chow mix puppy wormed her way into my heart sixteen years ago. i also love cats and was originally a cat person, but since i like to be active and be outside, dogs fit my personality very well. i guess you could say that i straddle the fence :-)
so, this morning's duties were just the basic scoop-some-poop-and-clean-some-kennels, but i also got to love on some of the dogs, and i got a chance to chat with la fu's foster mommy who works at the SPCA full time. it was a pretty great way to burn a few hours (and calories) this morning. i fell in love with a couple of the dogs, and it's a good thing we live in a no-dog building, b/c i might have brought a few of them home.
first, i fell in love with this gigantic, lovable great swiss mountain dog. she is the variety with long hair, and she was enormous. she also had been very well trained and was very sweet. i could have spent hours burying my hands in her soft fur. next, i fell head over heels in love with an aloof little chow-chow mix. if i hadn't been surrounded by strangers, i could have burst into tears at the sight and sound of this dog. she looked soooo much like my beloved poopy dog that it was downright eerie. she seemed to have a typical chow-chow personality in that she wasn't super thrilled with me loving on her, so i mostly just sat with her and talked to her quietly. she is in the process of getting her forever home, which makes me both sad and very glad...glad because she will have a loving family, but sad because i won't get to see her the next time i am at the SPCA. the last little pup i fell in love with is another chow-chow/shepherd mix who reminded me a little bit of my poopy dog...the biggest difference being that this pup did not have the typical aloof chow-chow personality. he hopped right up into my lap and started gnawing on me like i was a gigantic rawhide. i had a great time rubbing his ears and tummy and wrestling with him a bit.
other than this morning's adventures, today's been a pretty quiet day. q boycotted his nap again, so his "punishment" was having to go on errands with mommy. this did not deter him one bit as he and sissy found a way to yuk it up and have some fun on a mundane errand. actually, the errand was not totally mundane...we were sending freshly minted/decorated post cards to friends...the fun part was decorating and addressing them...the mundane part was getting through the post office ordeal without having a heart attack from the stress of keeping the kids in line or falling into a coma from the lack of stimulation (gov't building's here are very, very quiet and are an icky gray color inside).
this beautiful girl looks soooo much like my beautiful ippy dog that i could have cried at the sight of her.
this afternoon, while livie and i were working on post cards, la fu helped himself to the computer. when he wasn't curled up on it, he was plucking keys off of it. what is it with my cats and my keyboard?! baby kitty left her mark on this keyboard, too!
this morning, q was following me around while i got ready to leave, and when he got quiet, this is what i found. i asked him what he was doing, and he said "i go seep!" the monkey woke up at o'dark thirty this morning, so i have no doubt he was actually thinking about going to sleep. plus, it's fun to play in the big bed and bring all your toys with you.
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