Brought our lovely JiaJia to the pool on Sunday, paid $10 for 30 mins and you get the private pool. But realise she love swimming in the sea but dont really likes the pool. You see, the depth of the sea is more gradual but for pools, its deep straight away.
That day we learn something new about her again. Baby pretent to be drowning, he started to splash around in the water and keep shouting and calling Jiajia. Jia then knew something was wrong, maybe she can feel it, I dont know. She then start barking furiously, and attempted to jump into the water, thou you know she is so scared of it. In the end, she slipped and fell inside, and started swimming over to baby, and started licking baby's face after that. Isnt she a sweetheart? That makes you love her even more man.
Even though, she cant really save you, but you know in times of trouble, she will bark loudly and help you alert someone.
Bought her back to the vehicle and being her, she hates to be wet, tried to clean herself on her blue micro-fibre towel.
Cute hor.... :p
Maybe you guys think that there are way too many post about Ikea and just dont understand why our life revolve around her so much. Maybe you all feel that she is nothing but just a dog.
If you all think that way, I dont blame you.
But Ikea to us, she more than a dog. She becoming to be like human. I know a lot of dog owners will say that too. But our JiaJia is different. If you really know her personally, she is totally adorable.
Appearance wise, she is super cute, you all have to agree with me on that. When we bring her out, we got lots of compliments from strangers. And if those dont recongnise her breed (Wired-hair Jack Russell Terrier), they will just label her as "Sparky" the starhub dog. But i beg to differ, she way much more cuter than that. :p
She is not a flower vase okay? She got "liao" one.
When we first brought her home, her toilet training took probably like maybe 3-4 months, and now she is 100% accurate. It is not even 99.99% okay? Everytime she peed, she will run to you, very bouncy and very happy, all you need to do is to walk over to her newspaper and while clearing it just say:"Jiajia sheee sheee ah, good girl!" She wont even wait for you, she will run over to the dining table, and look at her treat box. And the funny part is she wants to get a reward from everyone in the house. She joker la!!
As for the number of tricks she knows, she is amazing. She pick them up super duper fast. The simpler trick like "shake hand" took her one day to master. The little bit more complicated ones like maybe "turn turn"(spin in circle) and "hello"(waving her paw) took 2-3 days. And that is amazingly fast. For non-dog owners, dogs they dont understand what you want them to do. But with a lot of practise, and using treats to lure them into the actions you want them to do takes a lot of time and patient.
There was one trick the "Whisper" makes her champion already. Whisper is to make small whining sounds and she knows that by whispering, she can get what she wants. So now, she is starting to force you to play fetch with her. She will bring her ball to you, look at you and start to whisper until you throw her ball for her to go get it back. She just keep doing that until she is tired. That little ass!
Oh yah, ever wonder why Ikea is also called Jiajia? You see, Ikea sounds like "Yi Jia" in chinese, so we call her Jiajia. "Yi Jia" means one family in chinese. And she is really like that. She is super "teh". When the whole family is out, one of them leave her, she will whine and whine like crazy, and start barking in the high pitch voice like trying to tell you to come back. How cute is that?
Before we got her, me and baby wanted a dog that is rugged not the lady lady kind, a dog that can run, can swim, can jump, not scared of anything, and of course well behaved la. And we got what we wanted, and a little something more. She is a cross between a dog, monkey and a cat. Hahahahah!
You can just look at her and smile at yourself knowing how lucky you are to have her. She is so quick to forgive, and so eager to please.
And I am not shy to say that went I am out with her, I feel so proud walking her. And I bet baby feel the same way too.
I'm tired and my fingers are freezing under the aircon. But you know I could just go on and on about her all day long.
There is a reason why we spend so much time on her, a reason why she has so much toys, so much treats and so much attention from everyone.
Goodness, feel like crying again.
