Or at least, almost.
Why does this always happen to me? The dog that attacked my in december tried to attack me again. As I said before, Jessica has mid terms so her parents are walking me more. And during this walk yesterday with Jessica’s father, the daughter of the boss of that dog was walking him and when he saw me, he tried to attack again.
You have to know that this dog is a mixed breed and he’s partly Great Dane, so you can imagine the power that dog has. The girl couldn’t hold him and she let go. He started running towards us and Jessica’s father panicked and tried to run away with me, but the dog was to fast. So he took the dog’s leash and tried to keep him away from me.
And you know what, I’m getting very scared to walk in that street. I don’t want to walk there anymore!!!

Jessica is having her midterms and she doesn’t have time to play with me. She has to study all the time and I don’t like that. We can’t go on long walks every day and I have to be quiet.
I know that she is upstairs in her room studying instead of playing in the living room with me. So I decided to keep myself a little bit busy. I sit by the living room door and start howling and barking. But I don’t do it to loud or otherwise I interrupt Jessica. Her parents on the other hand are giving me lot’s of attention. They seem to react to my behaviour and I like that. So I do it more and more ^^
Another thing I like to do is help Jessica with her studies. When her parents open the living room door, I sneak out as fast as I can to run upstairs. When Jessica’s door is open I come in her room and go on her bed to play with her. The first couple of times she found it very funny, but not always. She even made some pictures, but I haven’t seem them yet.
When her parents notice it, they come after me and I have to go downstairs again. But never fear! When the time is near, I try it again ^^

It has been snowing here. Everything is white. I like it and still I don’t get it.
When I’m walking in snow, I can’t stay on top of it. Snow is covering my paws. Where there weren’t any little hills before, there are now suddenly white little hills. So I start digging in them to find out how it comes they are there and then I end up getting the grass or find the street pavement. So weird!
But it’s really fresh outside and that’s what I like the most. Playing with the white snow, jumping in it, eating it,… I all like doing that. I have to go out and do more of it ^^

It’s been a while since I last saw Shunka. And I hate that. She’s my favorite play mate ^^
But Jessica keeps telling me that Shunka’s in heat. But I don’t understand that. All I know is that I don’t see her and that when Sammy comes over that he keeps howling and refuses to eat. The funny thing is that he has an interesting smell.
When we are going for a walk together, I can get closer to Sammy than before. Otherwise he was always growling and wanted me to leave him alone.
And his smell is very weird. I keep sniffing all over him during the walk. When he is sniffing something, I take the opportunity to sniff between his legs. And still no reaction from him. He allows everything. Very, very weird…
[Jessica takes over] I think I have to give a little explination about Eiji is telling here. Shunka and Sammy are living together. And Since Shunka is in heat, my sister brings Sammy over to not let him get to excited. But Sammy ofcourse knows a lot better than Eiji that Shunka is in heat and his hormones and pheromones are overreacting. And that is what Eiji is noticing. Sammy doesn’t care what Eiji does to him. The only thing that Sammy is thinking is that he wants to get close to Shunka as soon as possible. I don’t think I have to tell you to do what ^_~[End of take over]
What is she talking about? I want to know! I don’t get it. Where is Shunka??? I want to play together!!!!

The last couple of days weren’t very happy times for me. It started with a lot of fun, but I had a price to pay and a moment of not being alert costs a lot.
It all started last Friday when I received my very pretty Xmas present from Katinka, Jessica’s sister. I got this very special collar with Chinese symbols on it. It normally made for greyhounds, but you can put it on all the dogs. You can find it here. It’s the Tan Stripe Calligraphy one. It’s very pretty and I look very sharp with it. The text on it is very beautiful: 夜思 床前明月光 疑是地上霜 举头望明月 低头思故乡. This means “Moonlight before my bed, Could it be frost Instead? Head up, I watch the moon, Head down, I think of home”. It refers to one of China’s most important holidays and it celebrates abundance and togetherness.
Jessica put the collar on and then Sammy, Shunka, Jessica, Katinka and myself went to the beach to play. I was running and running together with Shunka, playing all the way. We were tumbling, fighting, had running contests untill we couldn’t anymore. Then we went of the beach and walked home taking the long way.
At home, I got a chance to rest and then I went again walking with everybody at Walrave for about another hour as an evening walk. By the time we got home, I was so very tired I couldn’t do anything and went straight to sleep. I didn’t even eat.
But during the night it began…
I started feeling pain in my chest. I wasn’t very comfortable and tried different ways of laying down. This didn’t work and I kept walking around and around and tried laying down in anothe way. When Jessica got up, I was very happy but I couldn’t act like I otherwise do.
I normally jump around, take a toy from my play bin and started playing with her. But now I couldn’t do that because of the pain. Believe me I tried, but it hurt to much. When Jessica and I started cuddling, I laid down on my back. She started tubbing my tummy. I like that, but when she moved to my chest I started whining. It hurts!!! Even when Jessica give my the yummiest treats, I first didn’t want them because it hurst while eating.
She immediatly noticed it and started feeling where it all hurts. She couldn’t find anything and noticed I wasn’t very comfortable. So after a while she started to get worried and called the vet. He wasn’t home at the moment, but she left the information and later he called back. Since it was a Saturday and most vets don’t like to work on Saturday it was incredible busy. But he noticed the worries Jessica had and let us come in the afternoon. The vet felt my chest and couldn’t feel anything. He decided to take my temperature. But I never had it taken before, so I didn’t know what that meant. When I noticed what they do for taking a temperature, I didn’t want it and started growling and strubling. But Jessica wouldn’t let me and took a hold of my while the vet took my temperature. It was normal, so he concluded it was muscle pain. When Jessica told the vet I couldn’t lay down or anything and kept whining he decided to give me a pain killer that worked for 24 hours. I also had to rest for a couple of days to avoid unnecesary strains on the muscles.
I can tell you, it reliefed me a lot after a while and I was able to finally sleep for a while without pain.
But then, the next day…
I was happy I didn’t feel any pain. Jessica was sleeping because she fell ill and her dad took me for my morning walk. While we were returning home, a dog from the neighbourhood was running loose and suddenly saw me. He started running to me and attacked me. Jessica’s father immediatly jumped in and saved me from that dog. The owner of the other dog put him on a leash and Jessica’s father started feeling if there was anything wrong. He didn’t feel anything, but we rushed home. He woke up Jessica and told her what happened. She immediatly came out of her bed and came to me to examine me. She didn’t feel anything but decided to keep an eye on my. She noticed I was limping a bit. She had decided to let my rest for Saturday and Sunday the day before for my muscles, but because of the events earlier she added Monday at the list.
I didn’t like that. I was really restless and wanted to run and play with Shunka, but she wouldn’t let me. I was starting to get wilder, but she didn’t budge.
So finally today I was able to play, run and jump again as much as I want. But I can tell you, the last couple of days were very hard for me.

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