This blog from Japan is about some of the lovely creatures I've been lucky to encounter,
and about stuff unrelated, but interesting.

Hope you enjoy looking at the pics of some of my friends and reading a bit about them.
Not only animals, there's some nice people in the blog too!
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Friday, July 30, 2010

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Monday, July 26, 2010

Osamu!

15-year-old male American fight(er) dog (?), owner said.
Used to get into a lot of fights when he was younger, fierce guy! Now, almost deaf, and a whole lot gentler... Lovely dog("-")!!

Friday, July 23, 2010

Omocha dorobo!

Aka often steals toys from the downstairs neighbours' dogs. This one i bought for him the other day..

Monday, July 19, 2010

Memory lane 2: Yuki as a kitten...



Yuki when she could still walk... Youngest/smallest of a litter of four, the others twice her size. Only one, incredibly, for sure to have survived (others disappeared, one was hit and killed by a car in the street). Everyone thought this little girl wouldn't last, terribly skinny, weak, would throw up every time she ate something, horrible eye infections..

Junior...

Memory lane 1: Junior...

Junior
(From a diary:) "Junior died May 6, 2006. He was born about a year ago, and has a sister who is still alive and looks very much like him. He never played or even moved around much. His sister was always active and running around, but Junior (I called him so because he was as handsome as his dad, long legs and long tail, and beautiful golden eyes) would sit by himself and keep to himself. He and two other stray cats from the neighbourhood would come out of the shelter I made (a plastic garbage can put on its side with blankets) every morning and into my kitchen from the winter cold to sit in front of the stove for 5 or 10 minutes and warm up a bit. When I hadn’t seen him for a few days, I lifted up the blanket that covered the garbage can to check if he might be in there, and there he was, sitting in the corner. Till that time, I hadn’t been able to touch him at all, he would run away, but this time he let me pick him up and I put him in my kitchen. I made a basket with a blanket for him and he lay there and didn’t move. The next day I took him to a vet nearby. Without further and expensive tests the vet wouldn’t be sure, but he said it was probably feline leukemia or AIDS. I took him home and kept him in the kitchen for a few months, and he seemed to get a little better, but eating seemed to hurt him a lot. He had gum problems and maybe some growth in his throat. When even drinking water became painful for him he decided life wasn’t worth living anymore. He stopped eating completely. I live with a rabbit in a 2K apartment, so had kept Junior in the kitchen, apart from my rabbit. After he stopped eating, I closed the sliding door between my two rooms and let Junior sleep in the second room. I also started sleeping in that room to keep him company. He had always looked so lonely when I closed the door between the one room and the kitchen, wondering, I think, why he couldn’t go and see the rest of the apartment. 12 days after he stopped eating he died at night with me beside him. I was happy I could be with him and very relieved that his suffering was finally over - the last two weeks had been terrible for him. Often he would cry in pain, I would come home from work and he would be all dirty, lying in his own pee, it was horrible. Junior was a lovely little guy, who lived only one year. I’ll miss him..."

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Daichan!

Daifuku no osu, issaihan!

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Suzuki-san and friend!

Kawasaki no Cinecitta("-")!

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Popo!

72-kilo Newfoundlander/black bear, 10-year-old male mammoth i just ran into while volunteer dogwalking! Until now, this guy holds the record for biggest dog i ever met here("-")!!!

Hmmmmmm("-")!!!

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Kibi("-")!

Kibidango no Kibi dayo!!
5-year-old German Shepherd, Nakano station!!

Aka, Kaasan...

Kyou MO ame!

Sunday, July 4, 2010

O-kaasan to the vet.

O-kaasan's left lower fang was growing out of her mouth at an angle, she was having trouble eating, explained to her we should go to the vet for him to have a look at it. She understood, let me catch her and put her in the pet travel bag, Dr. Yamanaka pulled it out with his hand, said: "all done, no charge!" ("-")!!

Aimer taking a nap("-")!

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Cute family

on the Chuo line last nite: mom, 1-year-old and 4-year-old daughters, and grandma. All totally natural, breath of fresh air on a train in Tokyo!

Whitey!

Beautiful, all-white 16-year-old female mix i just met with her owner in Inokashira park (Kichijoji)!! Very cute face, peaceful aura("-")!!! Name: Whitey!

Friday, July 2, 2010

Aka

feels safe and at ease when he's close to O-kaasan. The rejection by his natural mother when he was still a kitten after she was spayed, too early no doubt in hindsight, is something that's still very much with him... His brother dealt with it differently, and his little sister differently again.

Thursday, July 1, 2010