Four Sandals Down: Namtan's First Weeks as a Golden Puppy
Our cream golden retriever arrived in April and has already ruined four pairs of sandals. A first-week and first-month diary from Hua Hin, with lessons about puppies in the heat.
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Rescues, road trips, first days home and everyday chaos — real stories from pet owners in Thailand.
Our cream golden retriever arrived in April and has already ruined four pairs of sandals. A first-week and first-month diary from Hua Hin, with lessons about puppies in the heat.
Mamuang rides in the front basket of my scooter and barks at every cat between our house and the market. Here is how we do it safely, and what happened in the thunderstorm.
Moo Deng will guard the gate against any motorbike taxi, but one puddle after a rainy-season downpour has her refusing to step outside. This is how we finally won.
Khao Tom treats every hill in Chiang Mai as his gym. Here is our 6 a.m. routine, what I pack for him, and the one afternoon he redesigned my garden.
A Beagle with a nose that works all day, a grilled pork stall and a very sticky lead. How we survived the evening walk.
A black-and-white Border collie who needs a job, a 6 a.m. temple-trail habit, and the night I came home to a very organised kitchen disaster in Chiang Mai.
It started with a bowl of rice and chicken and a rule that we would never keep her. A week later Kanom had her own bed and a lifelong fear of the lift.
A black Labrador, a hotel garden in Hua Hin and a very elegant wedding. What could possibly go wrong?
A French bulldog with a worried-mackerel face, a hot Thonglor afternoon and the day he got himself stuck under the café bench. A funny story, plus our real rules for brachycephalic dogs.
A pug, a 7-Eleven bag on the floor and ten seconds of silence. Here is how my flat-faced thief got caught gold-handed, and what the vet said afterwards.
A hot April afternoon, a normally lizard-obsessed Ridgeback who lay down and would not get up, and a quick trip to the vet in Khon Kaen. He is fine now, and so are our habits.
A tiny dog with a loud bark, a sudden downpour and a very wet walk home. What I now pack for rainy-season afternoons in Bangkok.