Dear Readers,
I haven’t written about Perdy in a long time. But today I just can’t help but really really love her!
Gizmo dazed and confused (taking a nap and then disturbed by the camera)
Ever since we have adopted Gizmo, she has been just a tad insecure, and…for lack of nicer words…a bully. Doesn’t he look the most adorable poor thing in the world?
Incident #1: She is full, and has a few morsels in her food bowl, I’d pick them up and try to feed it to her. Her mouth would be shut tight, and if I manage to pop a food kernel into her mouth, she’d spit it out. <–she is that stubborn. She walks out of the kitchen. Then, Gizmo is standing next to me, so I offer him her food, and out of nowhere, she walks very proudly up to me, pushes him aside and eats all the food in my hand!
Incident #2: Gizmo is so paranoid about eating (because of perdy) that I have to stand near him while he eats. And sometimes, at night, I’m selfish and want to stay in the living room to watch TV, but Gizmo scratches the kitchen door (he is very communicative in that way). So one day, I placed his food bowl in front of the TV, so I can still watch TV, and he can eat (win-win situation). Perdy is sitting underneath a chair about, 1.5 metres away from his bowl? And just as he is about to take a bite to eat, Perdy barks at him from a distance, and he bows and sits down. SO CUTE! (and so sad at the same time!)
Well Incident # 3 happened today.
Incident # 3: One of our aircons had to be fixed. So I had to stand in the room with the 3 aircon men (really sweaty and stuffy. Eeeeeewww) and Gizmo walks in to say hi to me (I’m standing in the inner part of the room) And one of the men ask him over, so Gizmo walks over to him. And the guy is such a psycho! He doesn’t play with Gizmo, he takes his hand and puts it on Gizmo’s back. Not patting him, just placing it there like a clamp. And I find it really odd, because I see Gizmo trying to move, but not moving. And I think to myself, he must be gripping the poor baby hard! But I don’t know what to say, and I’m a big coward…
Because I’m in a bedroom, with three workers who on the previous day swindled me for 500 baht (The Boss told me he would give me the accessory for free, when they came they insisted on charging me 1,500 baht for the accessory, my maid bargained it down to 500, and today when my assistant called to complain, the boss said, “Really? 500? I told them to give it to you for free. <– Amazing Thailand.)
Anyways, back to the story. Yes I’m a huge coward. Perdy slowly walks into the room, like a lioness prowling. She quickly assesses the situation. You see her eyes look at Gizmo (who is trying to move) and then you see her eyes look at the guy, and she barks and lunges at him! The guy steps back, let’s go of Gizmo and Gizmo goes to run behind Perdy!!!
HURRAY! Perdy saves the day! She didn’t bite him, she just likes to bark and snip. Just to scare people. (she is harmless because all her teeth are grinded down from biting rocks when young.)
She is so sweet and loving! So despite her mean persona, deep down inside she loves Gizmo and looks out for him. So today was a huge revelation, because we discovered Perdy’s dirty secret.
Perdy always has our back. 
I love you love you love you sweet beautiful Perdy!!!
Speaking of whom, she is giving me the “It’s-so-late-I-want-to-sleep-already” look , so I better get going.
The "It's-so-late-I-want-to-sleep-already" look
Isn’t she beautiful? (in an old lady grouchy sort of way?)
Write soon,
Stacy
