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🧦 Day 202 with Mocha, and the questionable dog-walking fashion! 🧦

This reel was, without a doubt, born from my constant judging Mark for wearing his toe socks in his sliders when we go walk Mocha! 😂 And who am I to judge him when my own outfits choices are wildly questionable.

Who is guilty of putting the first two things lying around when it’s time to go walk the little ones? I’ll go first: 🙋‍♀️

We wish we could be as put together as our friend @elvisthesnowball ‘s Mummy who always looks fabulous but for now we shall bless our neighbourhood with the most garish and mismatched outfits our wardrobes contain! 😂 (It’s a work in progress on our end!)

Miss Mocha does not complain! As long as there are friends to see and treats to be had, she is happy to be involved even though she looks much more fashionable than us in her autumn/winter best!

-Bee

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🙉 Day 192 with Mocha, our cheeky monkey! 🙉

Choosing that emoji because her ears are for decoration only when she has decided she is leaving her listening ears at home. 🤪

We still have a lot of work to do to “take a moment… And still keeping [her] attention!” Any Brooklyn 99 fans out there? I reckon Mocha would be closest to Charles because she is a foodie through and through and she can sometimes miss social cues without realising! 😂

We are all out of funny reels after this one! We’ll have to roll up our sleeves and whip up some new ones soon! Little bestie is still getting used to us having slowly coming back to life and leaving her when we go to the gym.

She’s currently making up for “lost time” curled up in my lap, her butt hanging in the void in a precarious balance, snoring the night away. My legs are asleep typing right now but I dare not move for she looks so comfortable.

-Bee

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💃 Day 189 with Mocha, our little dancer! 💃

Another day, another showcased talent for Mochalita! Today, she showcases her dancing skills, cha cha cha with foster Dad!

It took some trials for her to get the hang of moving about while having her paws held but with a few treats and perseverance, she managed this stunning performance.

I wonder how many more talents we are yet to discover. A singer, a dancer, could Mocha have some more artistic flair we have not alllowed her to explore yet? Only time will tell!

Her biggest talents remain, biggest napper in the house and most hopeful for snacks and she could win any competition involving either of these two! 😂

-Bee

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🍸 Day 111 with Mocha, and her very first Puptail! 🍸

If you know Mocha, you know that she is the biggest foodie around. Foster Dad often jokes that you could summon her out of thin air by crunching an apple, and that she would disappear just as fast when the apple is finished. (A girl needs her beauty sleep, you know?)

With how much Mocha loves food, she is, however, lacking in the drinking department and has been known to routinely and actively refuse a drink of water. We have gotten creative to get her to drink more but I am sure that is a problem a lot of pet parents can relate to and face daily!

That is when @puptails_hk told us that they might have ✨something✨ that could inspire Mocha to enjoy her drinking time as much as she does her eating time. They kindly gifted us Barkeritas (their original lamb-based Puptail) since Mocha is not allowed chicken. An instant hit for Mocha who finished her whole fancy puptail glass and would have happily had second or third right there and then but we encouraged her to drink responsibly and save some for later. 😂

If your dog has a pawty or if you want to include them in celebrations or cocktail hour, this is a lovely drink for them to have with many options to explore especially if they are allowed chicken! (And let’s not forget, an easy and enjoyable way for them to hydrate a bit more!) Mocha can vouch for the lamb-based Barkeritas! Thank you @puptails_hk!

-Bee

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🫰 Day 106 with Mocha, full of love! 🫰

This ten day rotation with Mocha (it’s a thing now, a different dog every ten days) is a puzzling one for she is full of love, super affectionate. She puts her front paws on the couch when we ask her if she wants to come up and wags her tail. Before she would stay in bed and not move an inch.

But when it comes to her outside walks, it’s no thank you these last few days. The shorter, the better. Chaos on a leash beelining for back home with a total time of about five minutes. I worry for her little joints if she moves so little but on the other hand, she is much more active at home. Walking all around, coming to ask for treats and cuddles and welcoming us at the door every time we return home. A puzzling but sweet rotation I must say.

Now, regarding her skin, we have some regression. Nothing major or alarming but we watch her like a hawk and notice small details quite fast. Her skin has started darkening again all over? What does it mean? Her neck has gone two shades darker, her back is no longer pink and she has little patches of grainy black skin on her chest and legs. No scratching in sight and coconut oil on tap, so so far so good. We are watching her. 👀

Mocha likes to go to bed early so we retired her to her quarters yesterday (our room) but weren’t quite ready to join her yet. So after a while, she marched back in the living room blanket on her back like a toddler demanding we come read her a bedtime story. It was honestly the sweetest thing. I wish I had captured it on camera. I obliged and joined her in the room promptly and she finally settled down for the evening. The sweetest sunshine.

-Bee

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🖼️ Day 105 with Mocha, the model! 🖼️

Another ridiculously hot day, another masterpiece from foster Dad. We have limitations in what we can do with Mocha in terms of keeping her comfortable with her energy levels when filming. But having a large chunk of filming with her lying down worked fantastic for her. “That’s fine. I can do that!”: Mocha’s thoughts, probably.

She is always a little bit confused when the big lights come out but lots of treats soon start raining from the sky which makes for one very happy Mocha. She certainly makes for one perfect French girl to draw since she likes lying down a lot already. She gets it from her foster Mum side. 🤣

Two weeks without any scratching for this little one! Great stuff and hoping we can keep it going. She does have some areas of patchy skin on her chest coming back where she previously scratched so we will see if she manages to hold the urge while her skin changes texture and we are managing it with coconut oil hoping it will help her hold off until she creates new skin texture. Lots of baby hairs everywhere too!

-Bee

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💧 Day 101 with Mocha, and her drinking habits! 💧

Mocha is one of these dogs who willingly chooses dehydration any day of the week. To combat that, every meal comes with a soup base usually the water I boil her salmon with or plain room temperature water when the salmon is all done! Luckily for us, if her meal is in the water she will drink it but otherwise, she hardly ever drinks at home.

Mind you her bowl is freshly cleaned and the water changed every single day but rarely consumed. Over the last three months and a half, we have gotten to know her pretty well and know that in desperate times, she will drink a few sips when outside or finish the whole water bowl at home twice a week unprompted. When that happens everyone stands still! No moving a muscle! No distracting her and she will finish the whole bowl in one go.

We can sometimes add a few fruits to a shallow bowl of water and she will also take a few sips but the main goal is clear: fishing for fruits! Once the fruits are gone so is the drinking.

Let’s not forget this one time we are at a cafe for two hours and she was having the time of her life. Think kid running around the playground doing laps. Then one dog owner whipped out their portable water bottle to hydrate their own dogs (who was unsurprisingly not interested) but Mocha was. She went up to them, wagged her tail, they offered her some water and she decided it was her time to shine and downed the WHOLE bottle. 🤣🤣🤣 She is such a funny character!

-Bee

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🍨 Day 95 with Mocha, who likes to be scooped now! 🍨

When Mocha first joined us, we quickly realised we would have to carry her a lot, between her bad leg, her limited stamina but unwavering will to walk for, and frequent need for showers, she was bound to spend some time in our arms. Luckily for us, Mocha weighs two peanuts and one feather so she is super easy for us to carry but we didn’t want her to feel like she never had a say in the matter and to warn her when it would happen if it was inevitable. So we introduced “scoop” and if it will happen there will be no scoop arms just the word “scoop” said out loud to tell her: “I will carry you now.”

On walks, however, which she greatly enjoys, we wanted to give her more agency and choice so we introduced “scoop” with extended arms to tell her: “you can choose to be carried or continue walking by yourself.” For weeks, she chose to run ahead regardless of how exhausted she was. Recently, however she started wagging her tail and coming to us when she wants to be carried and our hearts are just melting. Isn’t she the sweetest?

I cannot believe that there has been zero small dog versus big dog privileges in this house. The amount of times we have carried 20 kg Samson and 30 kg Coffee. If you are too tired to keep going, you are getting carried! 🤣

-Bee

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🐣 Day 83 with Mocha, Daddy’s girl part 2! 🐣

Let the Father’s Day related reels begin! Little chicken felt a little bit better today. It was a big hassle to wake up this morning but very happy while she was out!

We keep joking with Mark that we get a new Mocha every ten days or so and for this rotation, the chicken is not feeling her breakfast selection. Always troubleshooting, we ordered her some new raised bowls to see if her neck is fatigued from bending down so much since she is in more pain than usual overall.

Her new meds seem to be working well so far in managing her pain. Still no scratching and biting (hurray for cytopoint working!)

The weather has improved and so has her redness. She is also back to wearing little t-shirts on her walks as she was getting red around her harness area and that has solved that issue.

She has been feeling so much better that we made a quick detour to our local dog park where Mocha is always so happy to stand among all the dogs but today, one had the audacity to give her attention and smell her repeatedly and she took it personally. 🤣 We left promptly to her disappointment because I do not want to push our luck with time spent outdoors and her face was quite dry so shower time + coconut oil.

Mocha received her beloved lamb spaghetti as remuneration for her continued efforts in our reels and she was satisfied with this form of payment. She is now sleeping and snoring and practicing how to say “Daddy” in her dreams.

We love you little Mocha! Get all better soon!

-Bee

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🐥Day 82 with Mocha, Daddy’s girl! 🐥

Most girl dogs we have looked after have been Daddy’s girls and Mocha is no exception. The good thing for Mummy is that Mocha is happy being walked by everyone including Mumny which makes planning and organisation much easier!

First things first, Mocha’s vet visit went well she got some samples taken from her abscess site and was sent home with some medicine to manage her pain. Overall, she is much more active today and even though she still needs breakfast in bed, she is back to sleeping 20 hours rather than 22 which for us makes a huge difference. Thank you to everyone who reached out to encourage her! She listened and felt inspired to feel better!

With Father’s Day coming up, we are happy to create some content to celebrate Mark and Mocha’s special relationship. 18 dogs fostered and we have loved them all so dearly but some of them stay longer and the bond deepens day by day. I am Mummy bath time and Daddy is food and exercise. Mocha will run to hide between Mark’s legs when it is bath time because she doesn’t like it even though she does exceptionally well and must endure it daily. She also doesn’t like being carried and I carry her often: to the bath, and out of our building to avoid accidents. She tolerates all that so well but some days she runs to her Daddy for protection in hope that she can avoid the dreaded bath time.
-Bee

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