I'm here. And I have never been so culture shocked in my life. I understand NOTHING. I stand out in my long red Jacket - all 5'9", light haired, white skinned (their words not mine) of me. And I have never seen so many people in one spot in my life. That said, I am starting to get into the flow of things. The campus that I teach on is 30 minutes outside of Nanjing city which has 8 million people. 8 MILLION!
So this is what I've seen so far. They have a pet food section made up af all the typical department store goods. They do have whole meat jerky which I was impressed with. Not bad so far. Of course I have no idea what the packages say being in Chinese and all.
I have seen very few pets to be honest. Not surprising I suppose given most people don't have room. The ones I have seen are of the Pekingese and Shi Tzu. You will have to excuse spelling - I have limited access to my usual tools! And I don't think I ever got the spelling right for those dogs.
I've even seen a dog dressed up in a sweater which I really didn't expect.
This was the funniest thing so far in the dog department. Two people were riding their bikes down the street with dogs in the baskets. the dogs were yapping at each other from the baskets - just like they would if they had their head sticking out of the car window. Cute.
That is my report for now. I can't actually check what this post looks like because my Internet access is censored and blocks out all blogging websites. Can you believe it? I've tried all of the typepad and blogger websites that I can remember and I can't pull up any of them. I can get other sites - google, luckydog website, cnn but not our blog. I can enter posts but can't view them. I love Canada. Just make you appreciate what we have. Hopefully the pictures that I added worked. I have no way of checking. I'll check back later with new news.
Let me know if the pictures loaded. I can't see them. It is So frustrating. I'm sure one of many things to come!
I have got a food question; maybe someone can help me out.
Since February we would give Koda what we call "big guy cookies" - basically they're store bought oatmeal cookies, nothing else in them or so we thought.
He didn't get them every day, just as a treat maybe two or three times a week. It wasn't until recently when I went to give him once I spied a raisin in it. A tiny piece of a raisin. We've always looked at the cookies to make sure there was no raisins in them because on the package it just says "Oatmeal" not "Oatmeal and Raisin" cookies.
So my parents went out today and bought a new bag and I checked the ingredients... way down on the list is raisins. Now, I checked out the cookies again and there's barely any pieces in them, maybe one tiny piece per cookie.
I know raisins can be toxic to dogs, but how much? Koda is approximately 65lbs and he didn't eat a whole bunch of cookies at one time.
I feel so horrible; as a good pet owner we should have checked. We're taking him to the vet next month for his annual shots so I am going to get the doc to get a blood test.
How long after they eat raisins, or even tiny amounts do they get sick? I heard they stop eating after a while, but he's eating normally one meal every day and he is playing fine, and going to the bathroom fine.
Am I just freaking out or should I have some concern?
Posted by: Michelle | March 15, 2008 at 08:28 PM