Sunday, January 18, 2009

Domin's bark


Domin loved to bark since the first day I know her. She would bark when we scold her, bark at neighbours as they walk by, bark at strangers who’s at our door, bark when she wants food, bark when she’s being locked out, bark when she’s unhappy, bark when she’s being blown-dry. The list could go on.

She barked so much that I really found her barking to be a nuisance. Sometimes we would hit her with bundled up newspapers to get her to stop her incessant barking. At one time, I was reading on the various ways to stop dogs from barking. It appears that there is this extreme operation that can be done on the vocal cords of a very noisy dog so that the dog will not able to make noise when it barks in the future…hmmm. Of course, we never got down to that and Domin continued her barking spree.

In her seniorhood days, she was still barking away, though to a much lesser extent. I think I must have told her countless times over the years not to bark at neighbours as that was a rude thing to do. Alas, it was to no avail – all my words have fallen on deaf ears.

I think her barking stopped in the past year or so. I can’t quite seem to recall her barking much. Think she could be too tired out from all the coughing and vomitting. Poor girl.

I never thought I would miss Domin's bark but I do. The house is almost too quiet.

Domin's jie-jie

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