The new comer name 'Donny' ...

Hello there!

The Chief's has taken to calling the new comer 'Donny' lately. Seems he likes the name. She's been trying out various other names - from Rusty (from his rustic colour), to Scruffy (he was rather Scruffy looking when he arrived) ... but he seems to like 'Donny' by the way he cocks his head everytime the humans at Dog Woods call 'Donny!'.

Scrawny Donny - look at all his ribs jutting out! He also has various callouses and minor wounds on his feet ...

So 'Donny' it is.

Today, someone (referred to as Person A) who works in one of the houses (referred to as House X) in the neighbourhood where (coincidently) Donny was found claimed that her employers have lost their German Shepherd. So the Chief and another one of Dog Woods household staff said Person A could come by to pick the dog up. When she didn't appear, the Chief and staff took Donny (we, TOP DOG, Anna and myself, Snoopy decided to tag along) by House X. But for some reason they refused to open the gates. Which was really odd...

These were the surrounding circumstances when Donny was found. He was found loitering nearby House X. The people living in the opposite house of House X who are Dog-Phobic were more than pleased when Donny followed the Chief home. According to them, he's been hanging around the area for the last few days and it was causing them a great deal of anxiety since they were terrified of him.


Which leads to another peculiarity. Won't a household be out looking for their lost dog? And if Donny was hanging around nearby House X won't Person A - who now claims Dog belongs to her or her employers and other members of the household staff would be out looking for him and would have found him by now?

From this Smart cookie's experience, when our Dog Woods TOP DOG there when missing one afternoon, everyone was frantically searching high and low within and around the neighbourhood of Dog Woods for his Lordship. Even the poo-lice was roped into looking for Tuffy.

Even the Chief's chanced upon him not once but twice (near House X too!) on two different days before deciding to do something about the strange German Shepherd lurking about the neighbourhood.

Which leads us Dog Woods canines to speculate:-


a) That Donny doesn't belong to that certain person who works with House X.


b) The Person A wants an pedigree dog like Donny for herself but is terrified of handling him - hence the no appearance after putting in claim and the not wanting to rescue him when he was initially lurking in front of their house ...


c) Ok, maybe this last speculation may be rather far fetched but a nice (but skinny) lost dog like Donny is the prime candidate for the cooking pot! This Basset Hound, kid you not ...roast dog is a delicacy in our part of the world. Though not a wide spread culinary practice compared to countries like Vietnam and the Philippines where you can buy yourself a slice of B-B-Q dog from the road side vendors or market, there are still people here who privately eat us. :P


So the Chief is wary. Poor Donny might end up in someone's dinner table if she's not careful. She's decided that she now wants documented and pictorial evidence ofDonny's ownership before letting him go with humans. As for now, the formal police report of a German Shepherd found has been lodged - just in case, Person A decides to accuse us at Dog Woods for holding what belongs to her or her employers (or whatever Person A's story is ...)

Snoopy signing off :)

Skinny Donny exploring DogWoods

Top Dog's acceptance : Tuffy and Donny

New comer ...

Hello there!

Snoopy reporting. Tuffy's been all caught up with the latest exciting change in Dog Woods. The Chief came home two days ago and brought home with her a new dog - A German Shepherd! Tuffy, TOP DOG of DOg Woods being very protective of his territory wasn't at all too please with the arrival of the 'new comer'.


It felt like 'Anna in season' all over again - the wailing, the chasing ... but to our relief that soon ended once TOP DOG Tuffy accepted the arrival of 'new comer'.


Now, you may be asking - isn't NINE dogs more than enough. It certainly is! The 'new comer' is actually a lost dog whom the Chief has decided to give shelter to (No, no, Dog Woods is not a shelter for Lost Dogs! It is actually a private home with lots of space for us canines to run about)


It's been wandering about the neighbourhood now for the last few days now - we Dog Woods canines know of his existence, because we've been giving him barkingly loud warnings i.e. 'Stray NOT into Dog Woods!!'. The Chief too has seen 'new comer' running for cover a few times outside of Dog Woods on her drive home. Thinking he was a neighbour's dog running home she didn't think much of it until yesterday when she encountered the same dog diving into the bushes outside of Dog Woods.

Deciding she'd settle this strange rather lost looking dog once and for all, she went over to the neighbours whom she knows owns a couple of German Shepherds to ask whether they have lost their dog. Neighbours said dog didn't belong to them and by then, 'new comer' decided he liked the Chief and followed her home...

...Of which we Dog Woods canine loudly protested - the loudest being our TOP DOG there. He was very unhappy the Chief allowed a foreign dog into his territory. But thankfully that only lasted for a little while. Now we don't see much point of making a ruckus since it's very thirsty-fying business in our kind of tropical heat.

The 'newcomer' is gradualy setting into the pack of Dog Woods .. though we still won't consider him part of the Pack - yet!

He's mighty skinny for a German Shepherd. Almost aneroxic looking but alert and active. The Chief's trying to fatten him up (like the rest of us rather rotund Dog Woods Pack) hoping one day his humans would come and claim him. We've taken liberty to alert the poo-lice who visit our post box alot, the V-E-T (just in case his humans go looking for him there) and the largest Pet Shop in town.

So, good furry and fur-less readers reading this post, anyone of you lost an adult male German Shepherd with dirty yellow and black striped collar in Cat City (Kuching) please let us know. We'd be happy for 'newcomer' to find his humans ...