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Paws for Thought on My Beautiful Nose

Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji. I took Mom on another adventure recently. This time we went on a street art tour of the place called Salt River. I’ve taken Mom there before, when she wanted to visit the Cape Town Society for the Blind, but we weren’t going there this time. Instead we went …

Paws for Thought on Justifiable Grumpiness

Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji. I don’t believe it! It’s just not right! A few days ago I finally relented and told Mom she was no longer grounded. If you remember, I grounded her when she returned from Mauritius at the end of last year and told her she wasn’t allowed to leave the …

Paws for Thought on Being a Celebrity

Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji. Last month Mom and I went to speak at the International Women’s Club. Well, if I’m honest, Mom went to speak and I went along to be adored, as usual. And what a wonderful day it turned out to be. There were almost 200 women there and everyone was …

Paws for Thought on Why the Lights Go Out

Note from Lois: For Fiji’s non-South African readers, load shedding is a system of scheduled rolling electrical blackouts that can affect us for periods of two hours several times a day. Hi everyone, it’s me – Fiji! I usually feel like we dogs make perfect sense. Most of the time, humans also make sense. But …

Paws for Thought on Where to Sleep

Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji This morning my doggy brother Onyx asked me such a silly question. He asked me why I sleep under Mom and Dad’s bed. I thought he was rather rude to have asked me. I mean, I don’t ask him why he sometimes sleeps in the bedroom and sometimes in …

Pause for Thought on Being Grounded

Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji. I’ve been getting more and more angry over the past few months. It feels like Mom is simply never around anymore – first she went to Europe for a whole month. She had only been home for a few weeks when she suddenly disappeared again, this time to Mauritius. …

Paws for Thought: Waggy Birthday, Mom!

Hello everybody, it’s me – Fiji – once again stealing one of Mom’s blog’s because she’s away… again. Anyway, even though Mom’s in Mauritius, wherever that is, I still want to wish her a very waggy birthday for yesterday. Because she is very special to me and my doggy siblings and we want her to …