Late last year when my girlfriend came home with a box and Hank the budgie popped out, I was more than a little nervous. Small things that flap around and move erratically irk me but after getting used to him and his antics, Hank became a welcome addition to my daily writing routine. Perched on [...]

One of the most difficult decisions I knew I had to make before moving Taiwan was what to do with my pets. With a heavy heart I decided to give my goldfish to the pet store I frequented in the hope they’d find a new home in someone elses aquarium. I don’t know if that [...]

When we found Leela the in the mountains of Miaoli County, one of the things I knew I had to accept was that sooner or later she was going to grow too large for my regular Deuter Rack Pack bicycle panniers. Enjoying her time as a small puppy being carted around in one of my [...]

One evening my girlfriend came through the front door positively out of breath. She looked like she had run a marathon and was carrying a box. ‘I’ve got something to show you’ she said, ‘it’s a bird I found’. My eyebrows went up as I expected her to pull out some dying roadkill she’d plucked [...]

When we found Leela up in the mountains of Yonghe Reservoir in Miaoli, she unfortunately came complete with an infestation of worms. Not being familiar with dogs and worms, we took Leela to the vet and he ended up giving us two bags of medication. When we got home, I had a look at one of [...]

Over the past few months I’ve had to adapt to living with Leela, the Taiwanese mountain dog I adopted after finding her abandoned up near Yonghe Reservoir in Miaoli County. Weighing in at just over 2kg, Leela is now just over 6kg and is her size aside, is turning out to be quite the well [...]

My blog publishing schedule has kinda gone out the door this week with the arrival of an unexpected furry rescue. My girlfriend recently got a Pinnacle Expede 1.0 cyclocross bike (more on that later), and along with my Long Haul Trucker we’ve been tackling mountain trails around Taiwan with the hope of completing a tour around [...]

Back in late March, when everything seemed to be going fine, I suffered the devastating setback of having to endure my pet Pug puppy Pogo getting mauled to death. The attacking dog in question was none other then my neighbours pet Doberman. On the day of the incident we spoke with who at the time [...]

So like everyone else I too am watching the news coverage on Osama Bin Laden’s death. The Australian Sky news feed is currently streaming some very serious looking newsmen and commentary on the announcements following Bin Laden’s death. Meanwhile overlayed on top of the broadcast is a live feed from public gatherings outside the Whitehouse. [...]

It should have been any other day. Like clockwork Pogo woke me up at around 9:30 wanting to go out for his morning toilet. I’d been training him to eliminate outside over the past two months I’d had him and things were starting to pay off. He hadn’t had an ‘accident’ inside for about a [...]