Today, we went to get a new dog. My dad and two sisters. (We're still keeping Royal, my golden retriever by the way).
We felt that Royal was very lonely after Prince had passed on so we decided to get a new dog! It was a Germen Sheperd. We visited it for the first time and adopted him on the spot! Paid a fee of 400 dollars though, but he was really cute-yes, its a male!
Blackish-Brown in colour, quite big. The ears are always on alert, always standing up, did not bark or bite. Tame. Its previous owner was migrating to England, stayed in one of those bungalows at mediacorp centre, so RICH! But poor thing lar the dog, got left behind so we adopted him.
While my father went to the bank to draw the money to pay for the dog, we were brainstorming for names. By the way, its previous name was SULTAN-my goodness, its unacceptable (The pronunciation is different from the controversial one too!).
Some names that we thought would stand out:
-Ulu Pandan (Because of the road name)
-Visa (partly because of money, partly because it was a bank)
-Gasper (I disagreed obviously-if not both me and the dog will come running when called)
-Kelvin (too human)
-Rocky (Too hard)
-Jasmine ( Cause we saw the flower, scared JASMINE scold and delete my blog so nope-and too girly somemore)
-Autumn (In conjunction with Winter-my younger sister-nope!)
-Rock (without the y, sounds wrong)
-Blacky (Why not brownie? Too cliche)
-Licky (Oh dear, getting desperate!)
-Money (Like some miser, he can't spend money anyway)
-Happy (Not bad, only that he'll keep coming during chinese new year because we say HAPPY chinese new year)
-pee (I did not come out with it, but no respectable dog will want to be named after a puddle of yellowish and smelly liquid)
-Prince (Too nostalgic)
-Emperor (A mouthful)
In the end though, after more and more desperate names were thrown out including italiano, we decided to name him:....................................
MAX
Yes, yes I know, its really cliche but desperate times calls for desperate names. But the name is suitable for big dogs lar, so APPROVED!
He is imported too so there's a blue tatoo on his ear, looks weird..He keeps shedding hair though, non-stop, we think its because its shedding hair season for him as he's just one-year old!
He seems to love the rain as he keeps running into the rain, so wet haha! Anyway, no trouble when he was put into the car with us, already very big. He would sit-up whenever the car stopped then fall when the car starts and lie down. He's really smart and knew when we finally reached our house, or maybe he was just sitting up for good measure. By the way, we picked him up from Holland so it was quite a long journey.
At first, he refused to go into my house, so reluctant but he went in in the end of course. Had to hold on tight to Royal as Royal kept jumping around, so firendly want to make friends with Max. But max so cool, hide behind my father and even fought with Royal, we were all there so we stopped the fight in time. Now Royal is in the backyard while max is in the front yard, poor Royal but oh well, new dog must let him assimilate first. Hope they will make friends with each other soon!
When we picked Max up, he was quite thin so we intend to fatten him up (Sounds like factory farming). Actually though, I wanted a rottweiler-the fiercer the better! Anyway, will upload pictures of him soon!
**I don't have the wire so can't put pics from phone into the computer so have to ask my mum put pics from her phone into office comp and e-mail me, very mah fan but at least got pics..haha!
Max and Royal, almost sounds like a brand name: Royalmax!
Next time class gathering at our house, can take a look-not as fierce as Prince lar although may look a little intimidating!
XD