I wish winter will be like this forever. Sunny with a bit of cloud, high 60'F/18'C.

Alice had gone home on Friday according to FOHA newsletter this week. I would say there were about 10 empty runs at one of the buildings at the shelter when I got there. Today there was a volunteer training which meant many dogs got the second walk (such as Miss Molly). It's great to see more people come to help. Hope they will stick around.


I started with Miss Molly. She still had an allergy and was on eye-drop treatment. Not much of scratching today. She was no trouble at all. A bit of pulling here and there but way less than the first week I walked her. (It was more like she walked me that day.) She didn't even argue much with the senior dogs whose runs facing one of the play areas. She just jogged along the fence looking at those.


Kelsey, Miss Molly's neighbor, was as nice and smart as he was last week. He was such a good dog for a family to have. I started wondering why he was at the shelter. He was one of the few dogs I knew that really listened and reacted to what you said, never tried to get to other dogs and he knew how to play. On top of that he looked into you eyes and smiled. (I am still not able to get a shot of his smile. Every time I took my iPodTouch out he just wanted to taste it.) He didn't pull as much. Today he wasn't in a mood to play tug-of-war with me so we were chasing each other around in the play area instead. Man, he was fast.


Zeva was very outstanding among others with her bright white color and the neon pink collar. She was easy to walk most of the time since she hardly ran until she saw other dogs in front of her. She would try to chase them and that was the hard part of my walk with her. The other volunteer heard Zeva panting from behind (because I had to pull her back so hard) and he decided to let me pass. Another unique thing about her was that she kept moving forward while pooping. And she did that twice!


Zippy was new to the shelter but already made it to my top 5 favorite dogs of all time. She actually looked very similar to the cat we and my neighbor in Bangkok taking care of. (We don't want to call her a street cat because in fact she is very rich by owning two places. She can sleep, sunbathe and eat at either place when she wants.) Zippy knew how to play fetching a tennis ball! Finally I found one! She looked at you and listened to you just like Kelsey. She was very thin and seemed to be afraid of cars so I was curious about her background too.

Poor Dooley. He hadn't been walked until I found out from another admin staff about the new note in front of his run. The note said that he and Martina, his extremely shy neighbor, needed to be walked together. In fact it's only Martina that was needed to be walked with other compatible dog. Dooley had no problem being walked alone. (He didn't care much about you anyway, ha ha.) So I decided to walk him since his eyes were just begging. So I walked him, my fifth dog of the day. And it actually was a bad idea because Dooley was very independent as I mentioned in other posts. You couldn't tell or force him to do what you want him to do. And I was so exhausted at that point so I didn't give him my best. (Sorry Dooley.) Today he just wanted to pick every pieces of treat left on the ground of parking lot. (Because people kept the dog treats in their trunks and gave it to any dogs passing by. It's like buffet down that road.) So we just hung out there without walking at any trail. The only way to make sure he pay attention to you was staying low to the ground (since he was so short and hardly lifted his head up) and looked at him in the eyes. But that still wouldn't guarantee that he would do what you said. He was great greeting with other people coming to play with him. Hmmm...maybe he didn't like me that much.

I hope next week weather will be nice like this.

Until then.