Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Fifi

And now I find that Fifi has cancer.  Kimo texted me that they took her to the vet and found out.

I shall appreciate her last days.

[3/8/15]  Fifi passed away a few weeks later.  She was getting weaker and didn't have an appetite.

I tried to feed her raw chicken which she ate for a little while.  Amy suggested hard boiled egg which she fed to Shammy and Miki before they passed.  And I tried hot dog which she ate one day.

I still took her for walks, but she would pause after walking a number of yards.  In her last days, I took her and Kimo up to the park up Alewa Heights [6/21/14].  She walked around the track though paused to rest after a while.

I think she wanted to go back after that because the next day or so, she looked like she wanted to go in my car.

I'll remember her wiggling her butt when I came to get her.  The way that she had to be first when we were treating the dogs.  And the way she would head to Duane's water faucet after making the trek from her house.

I'll miss her.

Mochi

I guess I never wrote of Mochi's passing either.

It happened a couple of months ago and Ann told me about it.  What happened was that Mochi was acting up and apparent Kimo (the man) grabbed him to pin him and Mochi went limp.  I'm guessing he might have had a heart attack.

I used to mostly see Mochi from the balcony when Kimo and Ann lived upstairs.  He always reminded me of a muppet.  The muppet dog.

In recent months, they would let me take him along on our walks.  I think he was part of the last five dog walk I had.  Kimo, Jojo, Joey, Fifi, Mochi.  Or maybe it was Tuffy instead of Joey.  Maybe Tuffy because I have a video of the five of them in my backyard taking treats from me.

I usually think of him when I go to pick up Fifi from the steps and I don't hear him squealing because he wants to come.  Another one that I shall miss.

Kona

A week or sos ago, when I was in the front yard, Duane mentioned that he was talking to Chris and that Kona has passed away.  She was taken to the vet who found cancer.

Kona was a black dog with white feet.  When we first met her, she was a shy dog.  She would be at the fence, but when we came over to meet her she would run down the steps.

There was one time, Chris came home and saw me using his hose to wash down Kimo's soft poop and he requested me not to come on his lawn anymore and not to go to the fence to scare his dog.  OK, not a problem.  Sorry about that.

But Chris was still friendly waving or returning waves when we passed by.  Though we never talked much.

She wasn't taken on walks very often, but when they did, Kimo would always bark at them when they passed by.

The most memorable incident [I see it was four years ago] I had with Kona was when I was walking Koa (Eddie's dog).  Kona didn't like Koa as he would always get loose and go to the then-empty lot.  And Kona would bark territorially at him.  So that must have been on her mind as there was the front door was open with a baby gate (I think).  Kona jumped the gate and went after Koa.  I pulled her off and held her.  I didn't think there was much damage, but I recall seeing a little blood on the back of Koa's neck.

But in general, Chris Ann told me, Kona had no problems with other dogs, and apparently was fine with her kids.