Happy New year

Well, its time to start working on my blog. 2007 and 2008 was a rough year for all of us and so much stress had taken a toll on many of us here in the states. Although we try to keep a happy positive attitude here at home, Daisy still knows and understands the hardships that my family and I went went through.

I decided to slow down on my NJ website company which I had been doing for the past 5 years and now I'm working for a company utilizing my skills as a graphic and website designer. With the steady flow of income, we're hoping to get back on our feet and start spending better quality time with Daisy.

On New Year, I spent my time at Resorts Hotel Casino with my family. We brought home one of the party favors that Resorts was giving out (head piece) and decorated it onto Daisy. She's not crazy about having ribbons, hats, etc on her so this didn't stay on her long. She'd much rather be running outdoor cutting through the wind... but at night, she spends her time indoor. Here is a photo of her trying to get her ball from underneath the bed.

Been so long

Hi all. Its been so long since I last posted. I've been quite busy and haven't had the time to share my dog stories with you all.

"Frisbee" is the magic word. When I say "frisbee," Daisy knows its time to play with the frisbee. She knows the general direction I will throw the frisbee and runs as I throw it towards her. She'll jump high to catch it and it's great watching her leap into the air.

Our frisbee time is always right after I finish eating dinner. The sun isn't so hot and the temperature is just right. She usually starts whining and judging my elbow with her nose trying to tell me "its time to go out now and play frisbee."

As for the frisbee that I use, the one I got is from petsmart and is made of a cloth with plastic ends. I used to use a regular frisbee but noticed that sometimes, her gums would get hurt from the spinning round plastic frisbee.

Christmas is over

So this past Christmas was a blast for Daisy. Why? Because after all the frustration of shopping around the mall and various stores of not being able to find a nice doggy outfit, my mom decided to knit one herself. We did a couple fittings on Daisy and she loves it. My mom chose girly colors to match Daisy's awesome coat color.

This picture above shows the button that goes around her neck. It also has a collar that is knitted to the whole piece. If you look carefully, you can see the layer right along the green stripe.

This is the button that goes around her waist.

Here is the whole outfit. Perfectly made to fit our healthy 65lb Daisy. She went on a diet beucase our vet told us 69lb was a bit over weight for her age.

Here is Daisy happily wearing her new winter outfit. She doesn't wear it outdoors :)

Daisy's Chair

Daisy has a favorite chair. As the midsize golden retriever she is, we do let her on the home furniture since she doesn't take up a whole lot of space. However, she doesn't go on the furniture much. She prefers the cold foyer, bathroom or kitchen floor. Also, she enjoys her favorite chair in my office.

The chair has two purposes. One purpose is the obvious. She likes to sit and lay in it. It's quite the comfortable chair. It's fairly low to the ground and very relaxing (naturally, it came from IKEA). The second purpose is she stores all her toys underneath behind the chair. When its time for her to play with her toys, she'll go down in from the side and start chewing on her toys!

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