Since our Sailor Dog has been down with a kidney condition we have been living under a dark cloud, knowing that the inevitable will come soon enough. We soldiered on each day caring for her, to ensure that her medical needs and her diet are tended to, in addition to making sure she is comfortable. …
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Sailor Dog unwell.
The last round of blood test for the Sailor Dog wasn’t good. Her creatinine (Kidney enzyme) was still high and her blood phosphorus level was extremely high. The Vet explained that her kidneys weren’t removing phosphorus from her body and that she has to be strictly on KD (kidney diet). It wasn’t that we did …
Moving onshore.
House moving is both an exhausting time and a time of anxiety. Yet it can be an exciting time. I no longer have big bulky furnitures to move as what is on our floating home Micasa is built-in. Beds, dining table, settee, and even the fridge is built into the kitchen cabinet. The kitchen is …
The Sailor Dog is swallowing the anchor?!!
“Swallow the anchor” is a nautical term for retiring from sea life and settling on land. What? The Sailor Dog will be a sailor dog no more? My fault really! Sailor Dog will go where I go and it is almost time for me to live onshore again. At least for a while. The condo …
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Toilet training, on a boat.
No, not for dogs but for people! The toilets or heads as they’re called in proper nautical term, on most sailboats are below sea level. Water, usually sea water (fresh water is too precious to wasted flushing toilets), is first pumped in from the sea, then this is subsequently pumped out. This process flushes the …
When your boat speaks to you and your dog doesn’t.
When a seasoned sailor and friend helped me sailed Micasa from Langkawi (in Malaysia, where I first bought her) to Puteri Harbour, a stone’s throw away from Singapore, he told me, my boat will speak to me. I was a little puzzled. Months later I understood what he meant. Every boat has its own rhythm, …
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Knowing you, knowing me!
One of the many things to consider when adopting an adult dog is that it will have already developed its own character. A personality that would have been formed without your presence. The dog will not know your likes and dislikes and hopefully the adopted adult dog is sensitive enough to change its habits to …
A new crew aboard our sailboat.
About BooBee. She (yes she’s a girl) was 2.5 years old when we first laid eyes on her. She was rescued as part of an abandoned litter, in a drain somewhere in Singapore, we were told. She had been at the pound ever since. The only world she had known was the pound. Never seen …
My dog's journey from a pound dog to a sailor dog (and mine too). 