After buying the cage and the wet food, we went on to Mayo Clinic to collect Mummy-Dog.
Yi Lin brought Mummy-Dog outside the clinic to calm her down because there were several dogs in the clinic. I could see, as I waited for the medication, Yi Lin talking very lovingly to Mummy-Dog.
And, after I got the medication, settled the bill, and came out, Yi Lin had already calmed Mummy-Dog and she looked happy. Yi Lin said she is calling her “Hazel” and she seemed to like the name.
So we loaded Hazel into the car and off we went to Yi Lin’s house.
Hazel was very happy to see her puppies again.
Yi Lin’s daughter, Samantha, had decided, with brother Timothy, that the five puppies would be named after footballers, ie. Lamps, JT, Stevie G, El Nino and Cesc. (Don’t think I know anything about football, folks, I had Sam write all these on a piece of paper for me!).
In that case, I said, Mummy-Dog should be named after the coach or the manager of this football team.
Manchester United? Liverpool? Arsenal?
Oh dear, these don’t sound feminine at all. And there’s no team called Hazel, is there?
Finally, Samantha decided on CHELSEA.
Yes, that sounds feminine enough. So, Chelsea it is!
Here’s Andrew and Timothy assembling the new cage.
There’s Yi Lin reassuring Chelsea that her puppies are ok.
This is the can of Hill’s Science puppy food for both mummy and puppies. Chelsea loved it SO much, she ate up everything that we gave her. Poor thing, she must be so, so hungry. The puppies loved the wet food too, so Yi Lin said she’d be buying one dozen cans for them!
We put Chelsea into the cage first, then her puppies, and they wasted no time to have some of mummy’s tasty and nutritious milk! Again, Chelsea was nursing standing up.
The puppies’ feet kept getting stuck in between the bars, so Andrew cut a large piece of netting and placed it inside the cage.
It was already almost 5pm after we had settled the dogs in, so I said “bye bye” to Chelsea and thanked the Leong family for having consented to taking in Chelsea and her “football team”!