Yomi's Gestures

Hi, Welcome back to Yomi’s world. I hope someone has been reading my blog posts so far. It’s hard to write so many things I know about dogs but I’m really enjoying writing about my lovely pet Yomi. For this blog post, I am going to talk about the gestures that Yomi makes at certain situations.

Firstly, when Yomi is on alert to keep herself and family safe from stranger, she tends to lean forward so that front body part has more power and tensed ears. Most of the case when she meets stranger, her body gets hard because she doesn’t release strength from her body.

Secondly, when she gets curious with new things or some sounds that she might not have heard before, she makes her head tilted slightly to one side. It is very cute because that gesture is what people also make to show their curiosity usually.

Thirdly, when Yomi gets stressed, she yawns, scratch her body with a leg and licks her nose. I thought doing that means ‘everything is peaceful’ but some other information on the Internet shows me that is a expression of getting stressed. Yomi shakes off her body and relieves stresses.

Sleepy Yomi

Another thing is that Yomi puts up one of her front leg in the air when she wants something desperately. It is like saying “Please…!” to me. When she wants food, she lies down on the ground to wait one of my family members to bring her food. She also seems to be laughing sometimes. It’s mostly when the whether is hot (as the picture of the last blog post shows) and when we play with her. She loves to move and she gets her mouth wide open when she feels good and sometimes she puts her tongue out too.

I really hope Yomi to send telepathy or something so that I can read her mind correctly. But I guess my family members are all well concerned about how Yomi acts and make her facial expressions so I don’t really worry about missing her important body expressions.

Yomi's Recent State

Hi, all the readers of my blog. I’m back with the last blog post! (maybe..?)

For this blog post, I’m going to tell you about how Yomi lives her normal life there days. I hope you enjoy reading it. It’s about her attitude to our family members including me and how she copes with the diseases in warm weather.

Firstly, she really likes me when I go to home in the weekends. As I’m not staying with her everyday, I guess she misses me a lot. She doesn’t seem to miss my dad as much as she misses me because the only person who trains Yomi with angry face is my dad. By scolding Yomi, she doesn’t bark out loud any more. She growls instead but I think it’s a sign that she wants to bark out loud. Yomi always loves my mum. When my mum goes to sleep in the bed, Yomi quickly follows her and lies down next to her. To Min gee, my younger brother, Yomi is sometimes tries to take action to bite his ankle but she doesn’t do that often now.



Happy Yomi in a Sunny Day

 

Another thing our family members are concerned about is that Yomi should be protected from the diseases. As the warm weather came, the season of bugs also came. The most annoying bug to human might be the mosquitoes. They are only itchy when mosquitoes bite people in Korea. However, to pets, it can be very dangerous. Mosquitoes carry dirty things and diseases to pets that cause heart worm infection. Many dogs die because of this disease and in many cases, the owner of sick doggy doesn’t even know about the disease. Yomi takes a pill once a month to prevent the terrible disease and I hope she is healthy all the time. In addition, after she takes a walk for a long time in the weekend, my parents found out that Yomi got tick bites two times. It was shocking because at that time, she had just finished taking shower! For this reason, I wish Yomi to speak Korean to tell us how she feels.

Yomi's Friend

Hi, I am the owner of Yomi, Jee eun. This time, I will be posting about Yomi’s animal friend. Yomi can be our family members’ friend and so do we. But we are people, not animal. Anmial friends can mean something different to Yomi.

Unfortunately, Yomi doesn’t have an animal friend yet. Some birds and cats often come over to my house and play but Yomi doesn’t like them staying near the house. Sometimes she barks at birds sitting and singing at the tree top and it is a funny thing to see. And when we gather the persimmons from our tree at the deck to preserve them fresh, Yomi keeps eye on other animals to see if they are stealing our fruits. So even in winter, we could have the persimmons deliciously. But when our family, including Yomi moved in to other place for several weeks, the persimmons were gone. Like this episode, Yomi is on the alert to other animals.

There was a festival at my hometown and many pet owners brought their pets with them outside. Most of the poodles were seemed to be there and Yomi was with us at the festival too. When other poodles passed by, our family members liked them, but Yomi didn’t take much care about them. I don’t know why but maybe they were not Yomi’s type.

If Yomi was brought to us with their mum, dad and her siblings, she would be much happier. But as we don’t know where they are, we can’t have them now. If Yomi lives with her siblings, they would play and bite each other. By doing that, Yomi would have been able to learn many things that people can’t teach. For example biting something alive can hurt it. For these things, I feel sorry for her and I also feel that I should be a good friend to Yomi for her whole life.

Yomi's Reading the Atmosphere

Hi, Welcome to Yomi’s world. This time, it’s about Yomi trying to read people’s mind and grasping situations. I know it’s an interesting source to read because it’s about animal reading mind! It sounds unrealistic but it really happens. To see more, please read through.



Yomi with I-Pad



Yomi, our clever doggy judges people when she sees them firstly. She makes light of people who are very old or young. She barks at those people as she thinks they are weaker than her. Especially when she is at home with my family, she seems to bark to protect her home and family from stranger. However, when she meets people who look stronger than her, she keeps quite. I know it’s funny but she really does that.

In other cases, there are many places where it’s hard to bring a doggy with my family. Big shopping centre, theatre, restaurants and cafes are the examples. We knew that Yomi would feel sad if we leave her alone for a long time, but also worried about the bad situation like Yomi barking at people out loud. However, when we bring Yomi to public places, she doesn’t bark at people. Maybe it’s because too new to her, but anyway it’s a nice thing. Even at the restaurant, in front of the delicious foods, she sits on my dad’s lap and sometimes falls in sleep.

When she has made a trouble at home like tearing tissues all over, she gets scolded from my dad. She tends as if she doesn’t hear anything at first, but when she feels the atmosphere getting worse, she gives the other family members a look to ask for a help to get out of the scary mood. It’s really cute to see her face. It’s interesting to see that animals read mind just like people even though they can’t speak people’s language.

Yomi's Trouble - Yomi is a Troublemaker!

Hi, Welcome to my blog. I am still featuring about Yomi, my cute doggy. If you are interested in dogs, you might enjoy reading my posts. For this blog post, it will be talking about the troubles Yomi has made. It can be annoying at that moment, but it also becomes unusual memories.

Yomi loves getting attention from people who she loves. She likes to lean on people and she feels sad when people go away from her. When my family members are all away leaving Yomi alone at home during the daytime, she used to relieve herself anywhere to get someone’s attention. She is well trained to go to her own bathroom (actually it is some kind of a pad) but she does it intentionally to bring people near her. But now she is getting better as she gets old.

 

 

Yomi also likes to play with something new that is chewable especially. Once, she tore most of the new tissues when I was sleeping in on one Sunday morning. I got angry but I didn’t shout at Yomi but only stared at her and quietly commanded her to sit properly and behave herself. Because Yomi is a smart puppy, she waited for me to clean all the messes she made for a short time. Also she was once locked in the bathroom. When we were all gone to work or school, she got into the bathroom and unintentionally closed the door from inside of the bathroom. When we got back and opened the bathroom, she had tore the tissues again. But at that time, I felt sorry for her because she was locked in the small dark bathroom not moving freely for quite a long time.

There are many other episodes about the troublemaker, Yomi, but they are the biggest things that had happened. Even though Yomi is a troublemaker, she is a lovely pet to my family.

Yomi's Stress Management II - How She Relieves Stress

Last time I wrote about Yomi’s Stress Management I – Why Is She Stressed? And I didn’t give the solution how to relieve her stress. As I had three reasons why she get stressed, I thought about three ways to manage each reasons. Staying with Yomi as much as we can is the first one and giving dog snacks is the second one. The last way to relieve her stress is to be quick to wash her and giving her a reward.

 Yomi gets sad and lonely when my family members start to leave home without her. She cries and stands tall to see us until we get out of her sight. As I leave home or stay with her to the last, I had to take care of Yomi when she cries out loud. I searched the Internet and read the article about separation anxiety of puppies. After reading that, I go and lift Yomi up high so that she can see other family members going away well. I hugged her and satisfied her demand. When she sees everything easily, she stops crying and barking. I guess she feels safe when I do that. I think she really needs people’s care all the time.

 To relieve stress during the meal time, Yomi needs to know that she has to wait for a while. We shouldn’t show too much attention to Yomi because if we do that, she may get hope that we will give foods to her. Actually, having meal doesn’t take a long time. My family gives her own food which is different from ours and when we finish eating, then Yomi may get some desserts. But still, we shouldn’t give fruits at the table. We have to go somewhere else so that she knows where to have foods normally. She feels happy when we give fruits to her.

 Yomi expresses her bad feeling after a long bath. I think she gets stress from not moving as she wants to. So we have to wash her as quickly as we can so that she doesn’t shiver from cold or get sick. When we are finished with washing and drying her, we have to give her a dog snack. Normally my family gives her a chewing gum. She comes up to my lap and chews it very enthusiastically, relieving her stress out. As we give her the chewing gum, her favourite snack after the shower, she doesn't show hostility to taking a shower.

Yomi's Stress Management I - Why Is She Stressed?

For the fourth blog posting, I will write about why Yomi, and other puppies get stressed. There are three main reasons. Yomi gets stress from being apart from family members, not having human’s food and taking too much shower.

 The first reason why Yomi gets stressed out is because we leave Yomi alone at home. At about 7:30 A.M to 10 A.M, my family members leave home to go to work or school. Daddy and my little brother leave home first and we hear Yomi crying. She cries as if she will drop her tears down. She tries to stand tall to see the back of dad and Min gee, my younger brother. She really wants to be with us all the time but as it’s hard to bring Yomi to dad’s work place or Min gee’s school, she has to stay alone. We feel sorry for her but actually she sleeps most of the lonely time.

 The second reason is that Yomi can’t have the same foods with my family. They are usually not very good for Yomi’s health so we have to ignore her when we have our meals. She stands up well to show her interest in the foods and sometimes hold my arm to drag my attention. I feel sorry but giving food at the table is also not good for her behaviour. If I start to give food at the table while I’m eating, she will continually come and anticipate for another chance. If that happens a lot, she might think that all foods are eatable and she will not be obedient anymore.

 Lastly, She get stressed because we wash her for a long time. As poodles (the species of Yomi) like water, Yomi seems to be fine compare to other dogs. But if you are not very skilled with washing dogs, it might take quite a long time. I sometimes listen to the music while I wash Yomi and I really enjoy that time. Because I love to have my time to take a bathe, I thought Yomi would love it too. However It was not true. She stands still and behave well during the bath but when she gets blow-dried, she express how much she got stressed.

 Those three are the main reason of Yomi’s stress. I can see how Yomi feels by her reactions. They are sometimes funny, but I feel sorry for her. So I try to relieve her stress. Next time, I will explain how I treat Yomi to relieve her stress. See you soon!