Some Historical Blogs

This blog was a blog I wrote in the past a few months we got Daisy. It was written on

March 8 of 2006:

Daisy is losing her baby teeth. So far, she's lost and grew in about 4-5 teeth as i can keep track of. All this has happened within the past few weeks.

We also took her to the vet (dog doctor) today and she got her rabies shot. We also checked her weight. She currently weighs 28 pounds.

March 20, 2006:
We checked Daisy's weight today. She weighs 33 lbs. She's getting heavy. Nain always carries Daisy to bed at night but lately, Nain is having a hard time carrying Daisy because she's getting heavy. I wonder how Nain is going to take Daisy to bed when Daisy reaches 80lbs?

Today, Nagi and I picked up Nain at school. We took Daisy with us. Daisy wrapped the leash around Nagi's neck as she climbed over and around the seat leaving a red brush burn mark on Nagi's neck. OUCH!

Well, you can imagine what happened to Daisy from that point.

March 20, 2006:
Ok. we came home at 10:00 pm from Cold stone creamery and had a take out from Best food in town chinese restaurant. When we came home, dad and i ate chicken wings. We gave Daisy an ice cube. later, when nagi, nain and i went upstairs, we found a huge chunk of Daisy's crap right where i sit in front of the bed!

Everything was fair.. Daisy and I ate. Then I assume she got mad becuase i was eating more and tried to get her revenge by pooping in my bedroom. It smelled so bad i almost threw up my chicken wings. I beat her, I yelled at her, and I beat her.

Ofcourse she knew she did bad. hehe... I won....

.. but i'm still pissed off

March 31, 2006:
Daisy can now lay down when we tell her to lay down.

April 2, of 2006:
we are training daisy simple math. when we tap the ground once and say "one" daisy taps her paw one time. then we do "two" and tap the ground and daisy taps her paw two times.

I saw on the Discovery Channel that dogs understand simple math such as the one we are doing becuase of their wolf ancestors. Wolves are always traveling in packs so the alpha male knows how to count how many are in their pack. Therefore, they can do simple math.

Lastly, Daisy is now weighs 37 pounds.

April 25, 2006:
daisy weighs 45 lbs. actually she weighs 46.5 lbs.

she is getting smarter too. she knows a lot. not just in regards to verbal commands but also what her responsibilities and certain rules of the home. For example, she knows she's not allowed into the street.

We recently got our fence up. now we have to fix the lawn and after that is done, we will be able to let daisy outside in the back yard. unfortunately i dont have a picture of our fence i can put on this blog.

May 4, 2006:
The past weekend, we tried an experiment. We kept both Nain's bedroom door and our bedrrom door open for when we went to bed to see where Daisy would go. Normally, Daisy always sleeps in Nain's room without choice. Now that the doors were open, we wanted to see what Daisy would do.

Daisy slept on our bed next to me, back to back. The first night, i was really conscious about trying NOT to roll over her. Thus, i didn't sleep well. The 2nd night, Daisy slept next to me again but this time, i didn't care about if i were to roll over her, throw my arm on top of her, etc.

I slept well.

Nail Clipping

So normally, I would write an entry about an event that happened in the past two years but yesterday there was an event that's worth writing about. My wife and sister were clipping Daisy's nails. When they got the the back left paw, she clipped it a bit short and it bled. The blood was gushing out so fast and so much my wife fell into a panic attack. I called the vet and they recommended to tempoarily use flour if we didn't have any Quick Stop (a powder used to stop nail bleeding). Then we packed pressure on it to help stop the bleeding as well as wrapped it up with a gauze.

About 4 hours later, the bleeding didn't stop beucase Daisy is a very active dog and her blood pressure kept pumping out the blood. Around 1:00 a.m., my sister and I took Daisy to the emergency care vet to have her checked on. They added Quick Stop and bandaged up her paw. They also mentioned that she'll be fine and to take off the bandage off by Tuesday.

Daisy's Name

Let's see. What were the different names we thought of for my Golden Retriever. We thought of many names. More than I can remember but our top three names that we came to a conclusion on were:

• Daphne
• Cookie
• Daisy

As the days went on, we ended up liking the name Daisy the most. We had not thought of it to be a common name for a dog but I guess it is fairly common. The cool thing is that our street name is Daphne and the cross street to our street is Daisy. We were tempted to do Daphne but thought it might be a bit corny to have Daphne and live on Daphne Rd.

I'm sure every dog owner (at least most) go through the same long hours and days of thinking like we did for a name. Geez, it makes me wonder how long it took my parents to name me. Oh wait, they didn't. My grandmother did. LOL

The Golden Search Begins

So how did it all start? Let's start from the very beginning from how we searched, decided and found. It all started when I started going out with the woman who became my wife. When we were going out, she was always a dog lover. She had a history of having shitzus, cocker spaniels, and a few other breeds as she grew up. From the time we started dating, she always nagged me about wanting a dog. Although I was not too crazy about being a dog owner due to the responsibilites that came with it, I still liked dogs. We originally lived in an apartment so having a dog was out of the question til we bought a house.

The same year we bought our first house, my wife nagging skyrocketed and the search began. We laid down some criterias of the kind of dog we wanted to get. I told her, "If we get a dog, I want a big dog." She was ok with my criteria. As we looked around we came across Huskies, Labs, Bernise Mountain Dogs, and more. My first favorite picks were the Husky and the Bernise Mountain Dog. The next thing we did was look up the dogs' characteristics and none of those matched our life style. As we looked around more, we came to the conclusion that Golden Retriever would be the best overall dog for us.

Finding a price to fit our budget was the next issue. We heard horror stories from people all over that buying from a pet store is bad. We avoided the pet stores at all cost... and they were costly, about $1700 costly! We looked on the internet and newspapers for breeders. We found one for about $700, made the call and and appointment to see the dog in a couple days. Shortly after, my wife found a breeder located about an hour from us that was selling Golden Retrievers for $455 a pup! OMG what a deal! We immediatly called them and they told us they only have one left and it was a female. PERFECT! My wife wanted a female Golden Retriever. Finally, we decided to cancel the appointment for the $700 Golden Retriever and set way to see $455 Golden Retriever.

Intro to My Golden Retriever Entry

Hi. I'm Hirok and I'm here to share with you my stories of a very special golden retriever that came into my life I got 2 years ago. Before I start rambling on about my golden retriever, the reason I took this long to write it is because I simply wasn't into blogging that much. Although I did blog about it here and there on a different blog, I was not passionate about it as I am now. After two wonderful years I've had with my golden retriever (going on 3 this coming Christmas), I decided I want to share my stories with other dog lovers.