elusivek | Bido

Bido 仔今早大約3:00離開我哋走過彩虹橋了
未夠20歲，爭少少，都當佢20歲啦！
走前仲要出去露台便便，番入嚟瞓低，就走了⋯
Bido crossed the rainbow bridge around 3:00am.
Not quite 20, but we’ll say he’s 20.
Still insist to go out to the balcony for the last toilet run. Came in, laid down, and there he went.
A Good Boy until his last breathe.

有緣再見 We will meet again.

The story of Bido and an some photos throughout the years

Bido was actually my cousin L's dog. I didn't like L much as, he's a drunktart. But there is also a reason for his alcoholism, so I shouldn't judge too much.

One day, he got a dog. I think how the story went, was a shop or a restaurant by his apartment building's street had a dog, or had a litter of puppies, or something, so L got one of the puppies, and that was Bido.

L treated Bido relatively well. Like a son. Then L got married. Had his first son. And the cliched story goes as the cliche goes. Newborn baby, cannot have a dog around. And since L had an empty apartment to spare (his mom, my aunt had meanwhile passed away), so he housed the dog in that empty apartment that had no one living in there.

(It was at the same time my other cousin N, L's brother, who also had the same idea to put HIS dog Lala in the same apartment, for the same reason, because he had a new kid)

They both claimed that they would go to the apartment daily to walk the dogs, clean up the place, feed and water the dogs. Can't challenge them, we could only take them at their word. And a couple years passed this way.

L had a second son. One would think that when you have 2 kids you would put more of an effort to grow up or something.

Now, this part of the story is disputed, and I can only write about what I know of it.

L and his wife had a big fight one day. One thing led to another, and the wife was bathing the second kid. Meanwhile L returned home. I don't know why the wife double locked the door - not just locked the locking mechanism, but also used the iron bar, this way you can only open the door from inside, and never from outside. (I wonder if it was becaus they had a big fight and she was scared or whatever, I don't know, she never said). The wife claimed that she didn't hear the doorbell ring or knocking, whatever, because she was bathing the kid.

L had this glorious idea to go up the top of building, and again this is disputed, we don't know if he just jumped off the building, committing suicide, or it was his under-the-influence idea to climb down the building in order to get home through a window.

The building was a rather tall building. He lived on a relatively low floor. If that was the case, he had a stupid idea.

Now, because he died in this stint, His widowed wife had to pick up the daily care of Bido. She said she couldn't handle taking care of 2 kids under the age of 4, one of them a newborn. His brother N said he'd help out, since he had to go to that apartment to take care of Lala anyway.

And then Lala died. N said he has no obligations to Bido for him to make this difficult and inconvenient trip of rushing to the second apartment, daily, for a dog that is not his.

L's widowed wife wanted to take Bido to the kennel to put him down.

My family (as in, my parents, my sis and I) were so mad, and we made a family decision that we would take Bido. We thought, he was around 9 or 10 years old, probably in the last of his years. Let's give him a last few years of his life.

What do you know, this decision was made 10 years ago. Bico lived another happy 10 years.

Yes, I know, we shouldn't hold grudges against family, but the treatment of those 2 dogs was always a sore point to us. Now the kids are older, and when they say during family gatherings that they want pets, MY family will definitely mention the treatment of these 2 dogs to say, if they are not willing to commit, then better not.

Random collection of Bido photos!