My Song Music Man, 9 weeks old weighs 1 3/4 lbs

My Song Music Man, 9 weeks old weighs 1 3/4 lbs

 

My Song Music Man is really adorable, fluffy, playful, with very expressive beautiful eyes... I clipped all 12 feet toenails, 3 puppies, and weighed and groomed Sonata's 2 puppies from Dec 6, 2010 whelping (Holly weighs 2 1/2 lbs and Music Man weighs 1 3/4 lbs).  Music Man really is vocal and musical.... yes, and he dances too!

 

My Song Music Man is so precious to me since I snatched him from death's clutches 2 or 3 times literally having to resuscitate him and rubbing him warm again. He weighed 8 oz at 6 weeks birth weight 6 oz .... simply had a terribly tough infancy (understated) .... I fed him with an eye dropper every 2-3 hours round the clock until he was 6 weeks old, and then one morning, there he was full body lapping away happily in the baby formula food bowl, his sister's weaning formula .... he lost the hair off his tail and it was stark skin naked like a mouse tail. I was reconciled to his never having a Pekingese tail and still loving him with his naked tail embarrassingly abnormal, but now he has hair growing back and it is really thick too... at 9 weeks of age he is the size of 4-5 week old Pekingese puppy (Sonata's) ....  "My Song of Survival" .... that should be his name.... and perhaps will be the way I always will think of him from now on.

 

Faith.....I never gave up hope despite how sick looking and frail he was.... I am convinced he survived only because he knew he was loved and valued highly in my heart and life... The more effort you put into nurturing puppies, the closer you are drawn to them... Goodness knows I don't need to add any more Pekingese to add to my many keepers, but how can I part with him now.... or his sister? ... the 3 puppies (1 is the parti puppy from Christina Greene) are all very close to one another and it would be unnatural to separate them now or ever ... I have so many puppy and Pekingese strings to me, it is like a harp that plays when I am with them.

 

Soooooooooooooooooo that's my story, and I am proud of it!

Pekingese

Pekingese are beautiful.

They have more coat colors,

coat textures,

and spiritual senses

in their long history

than any other breed I know of. 

I have elevated their status above

an inadequate common designation,

thought by others as “dogs” ...

so much more than mere “pets”.....

to being my caring friends of a different species ....

my comparative psychology research individuals....

my photographic models....

my subjects of literature and poetry....

and my primary way of meeting new friends....

those who share in common...

a love for the Pekingese dog breed ....

they are not my whole world....

but they do make my world complete....

very satisfying ....

they cost me a small fortune....

since one then another is never enough....

they are the luxury I allow myself....

they're my family home companions....

keeping me safe, secure, and spiritually sensitive.

Love.... A Valentine Greeting

It is not too early to think of February 14, th 2011, Valentines’ Day .... a day celebrating and focusing on LOVE.

 

I made this animation this afternoon inspired by other traditional valentines often simply bounded and limited to human to human emotional feelings of love and affection .... Love crosses all of life’s boundaries and I hope this graphic conveys that meaning and feeling... One can love another so deeply it permeates through other life forms to its destination  ... and other universes.... that is God’s love and the power of love a soul can communicate. Love empowers all life where ever and however it exists.  I believe Love is what saved my frail, tiny puppy Pekingese and gave him the will and power to survived, allowed him to live.

 

Yolanda ..... for all she has ever loved and been loved in return.

 

When Right Is Wrong, And Wrong Is Right

It was Christmas morning, and I had self gifted myself a Laguna Power Clean Cordless Pond Cleaner to keep my 4 Koi above ground pools clean, no sludge or debris on the bottom and sides of the pools ....

I had wanted this tool for a long time but its price was beyond my budget until Ocean Floor offerred me a

40% discount on any single item in their store.... It was retailed at $346.49 and 40% brought it down enough

that I could go ahead and give it to myself for Christmas only a few days away. 

I enthusiastically opened the 5 ft long box and began assembling the tool.  I was a little dismayed that the Laguna Operation and Maintenance Guide didn't have any instructions on how to put it together, but that has happened before with other products so I did the best I could by looking at the pictures of the cleaner on the box.  It didn't take very long to assemble, but then I noticed that the instruction booklet said to charge the battery 4 hours before using.  Ok, I thought to myself, but then read "IMPORTANT CHARGING NOTES", "When the battery is charging the light on the plug will be green.  When the battery is fully charged, the light will turn to red."  Well,.... this is certainly contrary to convention, I thought to myself.  I put the battery into the charger and the light was red. Hmmm, something is strange, must already be charged.  So I put the battery in my pond cleaner and it was working okay enough for me to try cleaning my largest pool. I finished cleaning the pool and was very happy with my new pond cleaner but still puzzled by the red versus green light indicators.  I removed the battery from the tool and inserted it into the charger, the light was red.  Okay, I thought to myself, we'll leave it in for the required 4 hours and see if it turns to green. The instructions said vice versa, but we all know documentation sometimes has errors, and in this case, the suspected erroneous instruction was consistent in three different languages of the documentation.  I couldn't call their customer service because it was Christmas day, perhaps they might not know either.

After 4 hours charging time, the light turned green.  The instructions were wrong.  Maybe that is why they didn't provide any assembly instructions either since that would have really fouled things up if they too were similarly wrong. 

When Right is Wrong, And Wrong is Right.... I learned that actually the light is red when charging, and it is green when finished and fully charged..... contrary to what their instruction and operation manual stated in 3 different languages.

When Truth is False, And False is Truth, verifiable by reality and life itself, we learn to ignore what normally should be accurate since we know emperically it isn't.  Little by little misleading and false statements erode confidence, safety, and security in our economy, its goods and services that should have integrity and quality; it creates distrust both in the product, in the supporting documentation of the product, and discredits its vendor.

Red versus Green indicator lights. Imagine what would happen if this error occurred in our traffic stop lights! Christmas lights, red and green colors, it is all very pretty, but what is real? When Right is Wrong, And Wrong is Right.....who is accountable for the errors in the confounded, crazy confusion consequences?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

The Angels Called

The Angels Called

 

The Angels Called

I had to go,

The Master Auld

Awaits, you know.

 

Can not be stalled

North wind doth blow,

Here is a scrawled

Goodbye, you’ll know.

 

 

Sonata's New Baby Pekingese

 

The first one born was a girl, which I thought was gray but I see is now sable..... 8 oz at 10:30 pm ,,, It was stuck with its butt halfway out and I finally helped turn the baby so it could come out. I had to quickly remove the placenta so it could breathe. 

Then next came a boy, sable, same weight,  at 11:18 pm.

Then a long wait, is that all?  Sonata was having just slight contractions and preoccupied with her two that were nursing.

I was watching her close by with soft music playing, resting and marveling at the newborn babies.  I was watching her so to be able to help, but then I sensed something wrong and checked her, lifted her tail, underneath there was a puppy still in its placenta motionless, a girl.  I tried to revive it but couldn’t, not breathing and no heartbeat. I think it was too long in the birth canal and Sonata’s minimal contractions were not strong enough to deliver the puppy normally before nature and time took its life away.

Then another hour wait .... is she going to have more, I wonder ....

She pushes with strong contractions, and there is a big newborn boy at 1:27 pm .... that’s all, its over, I am now sure.

 

Sonata is pleased with the 3 puppies that are alive, and we both focus on that happiness and not the ill fated loss.

 

I am happy Mother and the 3 sable puppies are doing fine, very sad that I lost one.... was it stillborn and that is why she didn’t tend to it?  While I was trying to revive it by massaging and even breathing oxygen in to its tiny mouth, Sonata was tearful ... and so was I .... This was one of those times, you realize you didn’t do enough, and you can’t undo and do over. That’s life, one time through is all you get. It is also one of those times you will always remember the sad loss and the finality of death with no recall. There should have been 4 puppies but there is now only 3.

 

I hear Pekingese breeders tell me how their large litters of 5 and more were born in the middle of night while they were asleep or during the day while they were away at work... other breeders tell me of their losses, sometimes losing the Mother and all the babies.

 

I will take my losses, but also learn more keenly that life is not to be taken for granted as a certainty or even a knowable outcome .

 

The Ups and Downs in Life

The Ups and Downs in Life

 

 

A friend invited me to go with her and her husband to see a litter of Pekingese and to help her to decide whether or not to buy one of the puppies. They were late arriving, and when they did arrive they explained they had been in a minor car accident; a jeep rear ended them just about a mile from my home.  Accidents are one of the downs in life, having to deal with the insurance claim, the vehicle repairs to the broken tail light and dented bumper with scratches, and upset to plans.  But they were happy nevertheless and we were still going to go look at the 8 week old Pekingese puppies, perhaps just what they wanted and have been searching for. This evening was an up occasion for us.

 

I got in their SUV and we were on the way to Cave Creek, Arizona (North of Phoenix) to possibly select their new Pekingese puppy, it had to be a girl puppy to be a mate for their AKC show quality male, Mofasha. After a short drive on Interstate I-17, then turning off at Care Free Highway, we arrived at a lovely new home. The air was crisp and clean, stars shining brightly in the winter's night sky. The Christmas wreath on the entry door hinted their was happiness in the home within.

 

We were welcomed by Chris and her family.  A Christmas tree with lights twinkled through the front window and holiday decorations, some still in boxes, seasonally added to our warm welcome. It was the most unusual home I have ever seen.  We entered into the front hall with a living room at street level and 8 or so steps leading up to the dining room and kitchen where the Pekingese puppies/parents were .... once in the kitchen you go down about 10 steps to a lower level family room or 10 steps up to the bedrooms and bath area (2 cats were sitting on the stairway looking at us quizzically).  The kitchen had an open balcony overlooking the family room with fireplace below and from elevated kitchen level and dining room, an open balcony looks down to the living room where we had entered.This home had more ups and downs than any I had ever visited before. Chris works for Farmers Insurance Agency, and I am sure she works with customers, their life's ups and downs daily.

 

Jeri and her husband were jubilant and immediately knew they had found their Pekingese puppy plus we were very surprised to learn Chris had another litter of 5 Pekingese puppies only 5 days old and there was one female in that litter also.  Jeri joyfully put a deposit on that one too so now we were all up, smiling, and satisfied with 2 new Pekingese puppies selected.  Chris showed us their pedigrees, we could see the puppies parents were exceptional in every way, and Jeri got the necessary AKC application registration papers after paying Chris for her new puppy. We said thank you, said our goodbyes then left with the warm new puppy cradled in Jeri's hands.

 

Safely returning to my home, I invited Jeri in to give her some puppy biscuits, an exercise gate to make a safe area for the new puppy, and some training pads. She looked at my Pekingese and held the one new expectant Mother soon to have a litter of Pekingese puppies just in time for Christmas, the same Mother of her male Pekingese, Mofasha, born last year.  We hugged one another and said goodbye.  Tonight was an up time in our lives and memories are made up of moments like these.

 

I laid down to go to sleep and did so quickly.  It had been a long day.  The next morning I thought about how many up and downs there are in our life just like the up and down stairs in Chris's many levels home.  The next time you are down, look for the stairs leading up.