剛剛看到個網友留言給我，請我幫這個可愛的黃金獵犬找一個好家庭。。。我相信有人會想認養這麼sweet的小黃金獵犬。還不到六個月大，現在開始養開始訓練很棒喔！

Golden Retriever pup 小黃金獵犬

Since we decided to start in the wee hours of the morning, I decided to forgo sleep for fear of not being able to wake up haha. At 5something in the morning we got started. Borrowed a construction truck and went out with Lilian to Danshui to catch dogs, with a truck of dogs and cats plus our own shelter dogs that needed to see the vet, we drove out to XIzhi to take them to get neutered and vaccinated, etc. Waited until evening, then proceeded with our animals to Muzha, Beitou, XIzhi, and the other dropoff places to send them to their respective destinations.

因為要凌晨開始所以我那天都沒睡一晚怕會起不來,干脆就不要睡吧哈哈...我們從獸醫那邊借了一個大卡車所以可以一次搬比較多狗狗貓咪. 去淡水抓狗狗,還加上其他抓到的野貓,跟北投協會那邊的受傷的狗狗,開回獸醫那邊(汐止)給們看病結扎. 等到快天黑就把所有的狗狗貓咪再加上要接送的其他協會貓咪,我們木柵,汐止,北投,等等一個一個送動物哈哈.因為還是要把流浪狗放回原本的地盤,就是他們的家.

The worst case was a dog that had a rope tied around its neck. The rope had been tied for God knows how long. The poor thing was covered in ticks, fleas, and even had tapeworms crawling out of its rear. It was a really sad sight, but  I think things like this need to be made known and shared so people understand that it's not good to tie ropes around dogs' necks, mouths, etc...we think it might have been tied too tightly or tied as a puppy and then abandoned.

I just sent HaiTai (the kitten with the black dot on the nose) to meet her new owner. To be honest, I was really not wanting to give her up lol. However, since she was already promised to the new owner by the people who discovered the kits, I still had to respect their wishes. Meeting the new owner, though, subsided a lot of my worries. She seemed very responsible and detailed, and asked a lot of questions about how she should care for HaiTai. Seeing HaiTai go to a responsible family eased my fears, I'm sure she'll be happy in her new home; but parting was very bittersweet...it was like sending my kid off to college lol. I felt like I raised this adorable kit successfully, and I'm happy she'll have a happy home, but inside the other part of my heart has these twinges of heartache. I'll miss her. 

The other thing I wanted to share is a problem a lot of cat+dog owners will come across...I don't know why, but the dogs LOVE the cat litter! Every time I see out of the corner of my eye Turtle or Latte try to sneak past me and stick their head into the litter box, I do a grmmmmph! noise and they guiltily scamper away. To remedy this I decided to make a dog-proof litter box out of one of those big plastic tubs you can get for like 7 USD...cut a hole on the top that's just big enough for cats to get thru, and file down any rough edges...(I ended up using and ruining a bread knife to saw through the thick plastic lid lol). This way, the cats can jump in and out of the box, but the dogs can't get their heads thru to the goodies...

還有我想分享的是個很多狗狗貓眯爸媽會遇到的大問題。。。我真的不知道為什麼，狗狗很愛玩跟吃貓砂！哎呦，好噁心哈哈。 每次眼角看到Turtle 或Latte 偷偷摸摸慢慢把頭伸進貓砂盆，我出了一個“grmphh" 的媽媽不爽的聲音，他們就跑掉，終於受不了了，決定自己做一個防狗狗貓砂盆。。。我去大賣場買那種有蓋子的塑膠盒，上面我撿了一個洞，讓貓眯跳進去但狗狗沒辦法進。有同樣的問題的朋友，我建議你們可以烤爐用一樣的方式，又便宜（不到250元）又簡單。

 快四個禮拜大的時候，我就開始訓練貓眯用貓砂盆。因為這時候貓眯很好奇，什麼都想用嘴巴咬咬看，所以不能用一般會結塊的貓砂。我決定用我以前養兔子那時候用的砂，就是結塊的回收報紙。這種對動物比較安全溫和，如果吃下去比較沒傷害，而且因為都比較大塊，所以小幼貓沒辦法吃。他們一開始以為貓砂盆很舒服，都在裡面睡覺跟玩。所以我在幫他們上廁所的時候，我就用貓砂盆接到裊裊大便，所以他們會學到貓砂盆是咬上廁所的地方。我還輕輕的抓他們手教他門怎麼挖洞跟把便便蓋好。過了3-4 天他們就學到了，每次餵奶之後，我會馬上把他們放在貓砂盆裡面，他們立刻就開始抓貓砂上廁所。

這時候我也開始加一點音兒食（baby food）在他們奶裡面，還是能用奶瓶喝的，但呦點肉味道讓他們開始習慣。在過了幾天就開始用打碎機把幼貓飼料打成粉。我用這個飼料粉，加baby food，加一點幼貓奶粉， 再加幼貓維他命，用熱水泡軟軟的，所以比較想泥狀。。。慢慢的讓他們用嘴巴添。一開始一直想吸，但慢慢就學到。一開始整個很亂，家裡一大堆食物，因為他們都會菜到。哇，我每次餵完要幫他們清乾淨很久，還要把家裡都差乾淨。之後我就想到一個好主意，就是把他們放在浴缸裡面喂，這樣比較容易控制他們三個跟洗乾淨。

第四五個禮拜我也開始讓他們再籠子外面多一點。一開始是我在客廳一邊看他們讓他們玩在外面幾個小時，然後我要出門或睡的時候會把他們放會去籠子。過了一個禮拜，狗狗貓眯都互相習慣，我也看沒什麼吵架問題，我就讓他們可能半天在外。再過了幾天他們就已經很會跑，叫他們他們也會自己跑過來找我。他們跑的夠快，也長得夠大，我就讓他們一直再客廳外面，但他們籠子還是開的，隨時可以回去喝水，用貓砂盆。。。看他們一起玩，也跟turtle latte 玩，真的好開心喔～今天我嚇到因為第一次看到小貓咪爬上沙發上，她就躺在turtle旁邊，兩個躺的一摸一樣的。好好笑！

yayy！我們Animals Taiwan辦的世界動物日活動結束了。。。謝謝大家辛苦跟努力，雖然天氣不是很配合但心意還是完全有表達出來。 我們animals taiwan 的成員，職工，sponsors，藝人，媒體朋友，真的感謝大家的努力。看到那麼多人一起加油在大下雨天淋雨我真的太感動了。哇，我們已經設備了這個活動這麼久，終於辦玩了，希望以後每年可以越來越好，明年不能下雨喔！哈哈

因為世界動物日忙完了，我終於有空多多寫日記，多多陪我自己家裡6隻寶貝小孩子。而且除了忙動物之外，我嗨喲本來有的通告，表演，演藝的工作，也加上兩個副業，感覺我生活真的很豐富，永遠忙不完哈哈！

I've actually been so exhausted and so sleep-deprived on the brink of lunacy that I was planning to put off starting this blog till about 2 months later. I got thinking though, that I still want to journal the experience while everything is still fresh. It'd be a shame to have nothing to look back on a few years later except a few food-stained t-shirts and kitten scratch scars.

So about 3 weeks ago, I hear news from our organization Animals Taiwan, that someone found 3 baby kittens about 2-weeks old abandoned in a box on the street corner. For anyone who's ever taken care of baby kittens, let me tell you it's NOT easy. It's like having 3 crying infants at home. So I completely understood how the discoverer was unable to care for them herself. Thus begins the story of how I became a kitten mommy...

So, at the estimated age of 2 weeks, I was bottle-feeding the babies kitten milk formula with a baby animal bottle every 3 hours around the clock. At every feeding, the babies drink with such panicked urgency that it makes me nervous, feeling solely responsible for such a tiny helpless creature’s life. It’s a lot to swallow in an emergency overnight decision that I made so quickly. Someone needed to take care of them. No one else could; I’d figure out a way to make it work. After their bellies are full, they need to be burped, gently, just like a baby. Since newborn/baby kittens are unable to go to the bathroom by themselves, you have to do what the mommy cat does. Well, not exactly…the mother cat will use her tongue to lick the nether regions (yep, ALL of em) to stimulate the elimination process. Wow, a mother’s love is like no other. I accomplished the same with a gently moist baby wipe. After feeding and “diapering” each kitten, I use baby wipe to clean each kitten with short strokes to make it feel like the mother is cleaning it. This is important to their hygiene, socialization, and well-being. The best part of each feeding is that they fall asleep right away, and that’s when they are at their cutest haha. I actually carried them around in a baby sling with a hot-water bottle to warm them after their feedings. This is because I found they slept better when I held them, maybe it had to do with hearing my heartbeat like their mom’s? So, carrying them around in a big sack hanging around my chest and tummy, it was pointed out by a friend that I really do look like a pregnant lady/mother, bc the way I started waddling (it’s tough on the lower back to hold that weight in the front), the way I had to awkwardly ease into my seat (for fear of waking them), or the way I began leaving the house with total disregard for my appearance (pajama pants, sweats, baggy food-stained t-shirts, no makeup, unbrushed hair, the works…)

After each feeding, especially the ones from 2am till 8am, I tried to sleep, but having sleeping problems to begin with, by the time I finally fell asleep again, I had to drag my butt out of bed for the next feeding.