Tribute to Princess

The quotes are courtesy of my darling anne, I didn't even have to refer to wikipedia or google! Ok well, maybe I googled for a couple of pictures :-p...

The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. ~ Anonymous

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. ~ Ann Landers

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. ~ Will Rogers

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. ~ Ben Williams

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. ~ Josh Billings

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. ~ Andy Rooney

We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made. ~ M. Acklam

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. ~Sigmund Freud

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. ~ Rita Rudner

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. ~Robert Benchley

Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. ~ Franklin P. Jones

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. ~ James Thurber

If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise. ~ Unknown

Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! ~ Anne Tyler

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. ~ Mark Twain

You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'Wow, you're right! I never would've thought of that!' ~ Dave Barry

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. ~ Roger Caras

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them. ~ Phil Pastoret

This doggy particularly looks like my darling Princess. I got her for a birthday, I can't remember which one. She came in a cardboard box which my dad left just outside the door one sunny Saturday afternoon. My nosy sister immediately wanted to go look but my mum stopped her and made me leave my storybook and go bring the box in. And lo behold, I almost fell over, cos there was the cutest puppy lying in there! I remember her trembling at first and hiding underneath the couch (my sis was standing on the chair!) but slowly we managed to coax her out. Princess, naturally, was her name and she was the most intelligent and loving doggy. I swear she'd look annoyingly at my sister when she used to walk up and down in front of the tv while we were watching. She'd just stare at my parents when we were scolded and she immediately went and sat by the person who was on the receiving end. And when my mum called us Darling to help with something in the kitchen, Princess would be the first to get there! And yes, she was a darling. She was so patient, I've got pictures of me putting her on my tricycle and trying to make her ride it with a big grin on our faces. In fact the scratch I received during the sole introduction of Princess to a stray cat (I wanted them to be friends) was from, you guessed it, the stupid cat! On windy days she'd run around the compound her snow white fur flying and she certainly knew how to entertain the crowd of Malay mummies and babies who would gather outside our gate every evening to watch her.

But one day, just 3 years after she'd come to be part of the family Princess was puppy-napped. We let her out of the house into the garden one morning, as we usually did, while the family got ready for school and work. Just before I left though, I realised Princess was missing and I became anxious. I stayed home that day with mum and we walked all over the area looking for her, asking people if they'd seen her. And when we didn't find her, that night, I cried and cried. We did the same the next day too and the day after that looking for her in different parts of the neighbourhood. It was on the third day, a Chinese lady staying some blocks away told us that her 2 puppies had been missing from the same day as Princess. Mum finally went back to work and I think I stayed at home a few more days before going back to school. I mourned for ages and a new puppy didn't help cheer me up either. Prince was jet-black and beautiful but mischevious and always getting himself in scraps. I guess none of us bonded with him as much as we did with Princess, perhaps the sense of loss was still too raw. After just a short while, we gave him away and he's now the taiko dog in his new neighbourhood and has the scars to prove it! I still miss her and wonder what happened to her and what it would have been like to have her still running around after all these years. A dog is too much trouble right now but who knows, Princess II might be around the corner, waiting for me to find her.