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by Chrissy Icamina-Dalusong
Animal adventures with shih tzu Papi and his pet-loving person
PLAY, PAWS, REWIND by Chrissy Icamina-Dalusong
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April 27, 2010

Marrying a Dog Owner

100422_marrying_a_pet_owner_main.jpgMarrying a pet owner means marrying into a family of sorts. Sometimes a person marries a dog owner and the next thing he knows, he shares the new roof over his head with Bantay—and if he’s lucky, both Dog Owner and Bantay welcome him into the fold. Mr. or Ms. Dog Owner has always been Bantay’s parent, and the new wife or husband is now, well, like a stepparent. It’s not actually a bad thing, except of course if you’re allergic to dogs, literally or figuratively.

The day before my husband and I got married, we were scrambling to find a barong for our shih tzu named Papi (how he got his name is another story altogether—and no, it had nothing to do with Willie Revillame). Call it cramming—we already knew there were doggie formal wear available at Pet Express in SM Cubao, but we were rarely in the area so we looked at pet shops near where we worked first. No such luck, though, so right before I checked in at the hotel I booked for my bridal preparations, we drove to Cubao just to buy Papi’s barong. He wasn’t exactly a bearer for the ceremony—but only because our church wouldn’t allow it—but we wanted him to look his best on that important day. MORE >>
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April 20, 2010

The Pain of Losing a Pet

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The author with her dog Papi

I vowed never to take care of an animal again.

I locked myself in my room and was crying with a dead itik cradled in my hand. I was in the third grade then, about ten years old.

A classmate sponsored our giveaways that Christmas—a sandbox of ducklings that were destined for doom at the hands of their adoptive grade-school mommies. I, however, truly believed that I could raise a duckling on my own. I got two ducklings during that party and named them Huey and Dewey—after two of Donald Duck’s nephews. I had no idea if my new pets were male or female.

When I brought home the ducklings in paper bags, my dad gave me this whole speech about my new pets being better off in a swampy area, yadda yadda yadda, everywhere but in a townhouse—much less in a box in my room. Of course, being a stubborn, smart-alecky tween (“tween” wasn’t even a legit word back then), I assumed I knew better. MORE >>
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