A NOT so Happy Chinese New Year ...

In my neck of the woods the humans of different 'breeds' celebrate the new year at different times of the year. The English New Year falls on the 1st of January, while the Chinese and Muslim New Year seems to shift from one month to another, throughout the years.

Usually all new years are filled with much human fanfare and celebration - we canines, of course benefit from all that over eating. There's usually lots of leftovers and almost always these scrumptious ever so delectable leftovers almost always come our away! '(Just thinking about yummy leftovers is making me drool ...last Christmas we had Turkey! *slurp*drool*....)

I digress!

The Chinese New Year which I am made to understand by BIG CHIEF will fall next week (that explains the hustle and bustle the house's been in lately). I have to admit, the Chinese New Year celebrations is not and never will be a happy occassion for most dogs...

We are petrified, mortified, terrified by all that LOUD exploding fire crackers and fireworks that most humans play at the time of the year!

It's no joy. Have incredible hearing abilities like ours and you, gentle human readers, would understand why we're having a miserable time. Our ears, perky or fashionably floppy (like mine) can detect sounds that are too faint for the human ear, and can hear sounds pitched at frequencies above and below a human's range. We also have the ability to pin point the exact origin of the sound, discriminate between sounds and make a accurate interpretation of the sound, and decided whether it is threatening or non-threatening..

And all these threatening explosions ... how on earth do humans even begin to fanthom that as a kind of festive 'play'?! Am told (by BIG CHIEF) its believed to scare evil and bad luck away ...

What a load of HUMBUG! Get a dog and all our tenacious barking will do the same - minus the element of danger and threat to owners ...

Anyway, it's not good to rain on BIG CHIEF's parade. She after all has always been generous enough to include us in all festivities (yum...) but really, I speak for my pack and all other dogs at large, that we can't wait for this New Year to be over - our poor ears ...!

Someone should invent dog ear plugs - just for the chinese new year! Perhaps then, we'd won't be so miserably terrified ...