I want to introduce my Pekingese
I currently have two Pekingese at home.
The first one is Ton-chan.
He is an 11-year-old fawn boy.
Ton-chan is the one who started my Pekingese life.
To put it simply, he was a leftover at a pet shop,
kept in a cage placed in front of the glass display case.
I hadn't intended to bring a dog home at the time, but when I approached him thinking, 'Oh... a Peke... I've found one...', Ton-chan came over and sniffed my hand.
When I tried to leave, he stood up by putting his paws on the cage and watched my back as if to say, 'Take me with you...'
I couldn't go home for a while because I was so concerned about Ton-chan, so I watched him from the shadow of a pillar far away (which seems suspicious now),
and I remember feeling heartbroken when I saw him give up, curl up in his cage, and start to sleep.
After that, even when I got home, I couldn't forget about Ton-chan, so I consulted my husband, parents, and friends, and I remember going to see him two or three times because I couldn't help but worry about him.
Embarrassingly, the shop staff even started to recognize me and would say, 'It's the Peke, right? Would you like to hold him?'
I was allowed to hold him, but for some reason, I disciplined myself as much as possible not to adopt him lightly and went home without him. The next day, that rationality collapsed completely, and I called the shop saying, 'Is that puppy still there? I'm coming now!', and on the way back, I went home with Ton-chan.
I am still convinced that Ton-chan called out to me.
The second one is Maron,
a 10-year-old cream boy.
Maron also came from the leftover group at a pet shop.
He was among the puppies that were discounted under the name of a Christmas fair, right around this time of year.
At the time, I was living with my parents, and I had plans to go out for dinner with a friend that day.
However, they contacted me to say they would be about 30 minutes late, so I wandered into a home center I had no intention of visiting.
He was the one in the pet shop there, sending a gaze toward me from inside the display case with a large white body for a Peke.
'Oh... he's looking at me... a Peke...' I thought, but since I had a meeting time, I went home as planned.
When I told my mother at my parents' house what I had seen that day, she said, 'I want to go see him!', so I went with her the next day.
When my mother held Maron after the standard 'Would you like to hold him?', he wagged his tail vigorously and licked my mother's face all over.
Thanks to Maron's grand PR, he became our second Pekingese six months after Ton-chan, at my mother's strong request.
Maron is a popular guy who is very popular with women.
Since I'm at it, I'd like to introduce the ones in heaven too.
She is Kinako,
a black girl.
She became an angel at the age of 11 on April 1st of this year.
She was the first Peke we took in as a rescue dog, and she was blind in her left eye.
A little chubby and selfish, she really let me experience what a Pekingese girl is like; she is my very cute little princess.
The last one is Potchan.
A white boy.
He was an angel even when he was alive, but he became a real angel on November 13th at the age of 7.
The second rescue dog that came to our home.
He is the youngest and loves both people and dogs.
I think his sociability is quite rare in the Pekingese world.
Among the four, his snoring was the loudest.
Potchan's sudden death led me to experience the greatest pet loss of my life.
I will talk about that another time.
Thank you for reading again today.