We were not exactly silent about it. We repeated it almost every single day. You had to hear our complaints about your presence. You had to endure the cold shoulder we gave you.
This article was supposed to be published yesterday night but when I was in the mood for writing, the platform was down for maintenance. So I just slept instead of writing.
Check out my fantastic sponsorsThis is about how we have come to see Moshi as part of out family instead of as an unwanted guest.
It started with a heartbreak
The reason why I am writing this is because my sister wrote about the time she was broken hearted and I decided this is also a nice article to accompany it.
Our relationship with Moshi started with a heartbreak. In my sister's misery she wanted to take care of something just to distract herself. We dissuaded her because she was in no way taking good care of herself as of the moment but she refused to budge. She did not listen even when our parents were the one forbidding it.
One day she got home carrying a basket that carries a tiny puppy. The pup was so little you would think it is a rat at first glance.
Sbe stayed for a few hours downstairs because she did not know how to face our father while carrying Moshi. My parents took pity on her and let her keep Moshi.
The plan was to let my sister learn just how unfit she is to take care of a puppy right then. We were told not to take care of Moshi, and let my sister do all the work so that she will realized it herself and rehome Moshi.
Just look at how tiny Moshi was. At the first day the problem alreasy arised. My suster needed to go to work and she needed to feed Moshi at night but she could not do so.
She already had to ask us for help. Around this time, I am still frustrated at her decision especially when I saw how tiny Moshi is. I felt pity but I told myself that ny sister needed to learn how to deal with it herself.
Our youngest sister ended up filling the role for a few days. My sister gave her some money for the help which caught my attention. I was not yet on noise.cash back then so I thought that the money is good for just a few hours of interacting with Moshi.
I did not want to do it at first because Moshi is a biter and I am afraid of getting bitten. But when I realized her teeth are not yet grown, I lost a lot of my fear.
After a while our youngest sister decided she did not want to take care of Moshi anymore. I stepped up that time because Moshi would not stop crying.
It was a tough time for me as I have no idea how to take care of a puppy. But between playing with her and feeding her, I researched about it. I learned some way to understand her better, and to cimmunicate with her better.
Still, I never really bond much because I was afraid that she will be rehomed after a few weeks.
This is Moshi with 2 of her siblings. Moshi is the one wityh "socks" on. The black one is Beau and the other was Penny. Penny sadly passed away a few weeks after being rehomed.
My sister were actually told that Moshi might not make it since she is so tiny. She needed a lot of attention and care.
When she told us that, I felt a twinge in my heart. And I just find myself taking care of Moshi. It messed up with my schedule for doing requirements since I cannot do them during the night anymore because I am watching over Moshi.
Still, Moshi is growing on me. And when my sister left for a vacation, the perfect opportunity for Moshi to grow on my other sisters arised.
Around this time, Moshi is mostly stuck in my sister's room since everyone else do not want to see her.
But with my sister gone, and me being the care taker. I refused to just let it stay that way. So I started opening up the barrier.
I let Moshi out of my sister's room to play and she was incredibly happy with the extra space. She finds a space under my two sisters' bed to stay when she wanted to sleep.
Soon enough, with my endless effort to get them to play with Moshi, my sisters warmed up to her. And then Moshi will be allowed to stay on their bed. Moshi started to sleep with us during our afternoon naps.
She became much happier overall and more active. She also started to match her cries to the time of when we were supposed to be awake anyway.
We found a routine. Early in the morning, we will run for a bit, and play. Just to get rid of her extra energy. And then after that is breakfast time. Then we go back upstairs to wake uo our other sisters.
They will take over taking care of Moshi while I do some things. And then my sisters and I will eat lunch, and Moshi will wait for us upstairs, alone. If we took too long she will cry and try to bark to call us. So we learned to take note of the time.
After a few hours, I will take her out again for another walk. She has high energy so she needed a lot of activities to keep her occupied. The dinner time is the same as lunch.
Around this time as well, the puppy treats I ordered arrived. So I was able to teach her tricks before my sister got home.
When she got home, she was surprised that when she joked about rehoming Moshi, she was met with disagreement and anger instead of agreement and relief with her decision.
I briefed her about Moshi's daily activities anf she took note of it. Since then, Moshi is a part of our family.
We affectionately call her our "little monster" because she is so active and she is a biter. She learned how to just play bites only because I always stopped playing with her when she bit too hard.
She is the one who went inside the storage box that I ordered. Look at her. It seems as if she is claiming it as hers.
Now she is just an affectionately clingy dog. She sleeps with us for afternoon naps. She likes to lie down my stomach. It was cute when she was tiny but I definitely feel her weight now HAHA. She is super protective and she barks loudly at strangers getting close to our home.
She is still afraid of the stray cat that we let insidr sometime though. She was scratched by Muning (the cat) when she was tiny and even now that she is bigger than him, she still could not come too close.
Moshi also has her own space on our beds. And she claims it everytime she wanders into our respective rooms.
She has grown on us so much. I could not imagine how lonely life would be without Moshi. She has brought me great joy just with her presence. Sure, her never ending need for attention is irritating at times but still when she sees that I needed to work on something she just waits until I finish it or bother my other sisters.
I want to see her grow up but I also don't want time to move too fast. If you are a pet owner, I think you would get what I mean.
Anyway, this just reminds me that I needed to meet with Moshi like a few hours ago so I am gonna publish this now.
Thank you for reading this article!
If you want someone to talk to about random things, you can find me here:
Telegram: @zehrasky
noise.cash: ZehraSky
Tumblr: Zehrasky
To show my appreciation for the support that I have been receiving, please accept a small gift I prepared for my first reader.
Cute2 ni Moshi. Dami ko ng trauma sa aso eh. Lagi nalang ako nasasktan tuwing nawawala sila sa akin. However, it didn't stop me hihi.