Walk for animal welfare
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elusivek'Twas a tiring day for me today. For some reason, everyone woke up pretty late today. Even the dogs didn't badger us for food, so we were surprised to see 9am when we woke up. It was too hot to walk the dogs in the mountains already, so we did our regular walk.
The Obligatory Sunday Family Lunch (r) was cancelled due to my aunt feeling unwell. So we took the time in cleaning up the apartment and folding the laundry and had a late take out lunch. And we snoozed a bit later, haha.
Come 4pm though, and out I went! Today was the yearly Walk for Animal Welfare thing. I always said I wanted to join but never did. I kept my word this year!
There was quite a lot of people, the organisers estimated some 3000 people showed up (personally I think it's BS)
You'll notice on the bottom left corner of the above photo that... I took my dog there too! It was a pretty good experience for him. I kept him on a muzzle initially because he kept nipping at smaller dogs. Nearing the end of the walk, he was tired and didn't bother anymore with other dogs, and I was worried he couldn't breathe well, so I took the muzzle off, and he didn't even look at other dogs.
That means, he doesn't exercise enough. Argh.
But it was a good chance for him to socialise a bit. At least I now know if I tire him out enough then he's an angel. A drooling angel though.
He can be such a sweet looking dog when he wants to be (don't be fooled by his smile).
The issue this time is that there has been some cases of ludicrous animal abuse news lately. Puppies and a turtle were being thrown off high rise buildings (all died), kitten torturing rampant. And the government is thinking of cutting down the penalty/fine/jail time of animal abuse cases, which is ridiculous.
The walk itself was pretty well organised though it was very Chinese-centric. I understand that the population here is mainly Chinese, but then they wanted the foreigner community to join too, and made their ads and collaterals bilingual, however for the actual talk and on-day communication, it was all in Chinese.
Something for them to think about...
Let's see if I can find the group photo for MASDAW...
The Obligatory Sunday Family Lunch (r) was cancelled due to my aunt feeling unwell. So we took the time in cleaning up the apartment and folding the laundry and had a late take out lunch. And we snoozed a bit later, haha.
Come 4pm though, and out I went! Today was the yearly Walk for Animal Welfare thing. I always said I wanted to join but never did. I kept my word this year!
There was quite a lot of people, the organisers estimated some 3000 people showed up (personally I think it's BS)
You'll notice on the bottom left corner of the above photo that... I took my dog there too! It was a pretty good experience for him. I kept him on a muzzle initially because he kept nipping at smaller dogs. Nearing the end of the walk, he was tired and didn't bother anymore with other dogs, and I was worried he couldn't breathe well, so I took the muzzle off, and he didn't even look at other dogs.
That means, he doesn't exercise enough. Argh.
But it was a good chance for him to socialise a bit. At least I now know if I tire him out enough then he's an angel. A drooling angel though.
He can be such a sweet looking dog when he wants to be (don't be fooled by his smile).
The issue this time is that there has been some cases of ludicrous animal abuse news lately. Puppies and a turtle were being thrown off high rise buildings (all died), kitten torturing rampant. And the government is thinking of cutting down the penalty/fine/jail time of animal abuse cases, which is ridiculous.
The walk itself was pretty well organised though it was very Chinese-centric. I understand that the population here is mainly Chinese, but then they wanted the foreigner community to join too, and made their ads and collaterals bilingual, however for the actual talk and on-day communication, it was all in Chinese.
Something for them to think about...
Let's see if I can find the group photo for MASDAW...
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