Our Story
How our journey begins..
We started finding out more about pet health back in 2018, as a first-time pet owner with knowledge about any backyard breeding nor are we in any of the dogs community groups in Singapore, we got our Frenchie at a pet shop that happens to be breeding their own animals. Wangcai is born with one of the owner's dog + another customer's dog, but they are a licensed pet shop. He came home at 4 months old with mites, yeast infection, constantly having stomach issues, hot spots, food sensitivity reactions, environmental sensitivity and skin rashes.
After many vet visits and switching different premium quality dry food, including the go-to hypoallergenic diet from the vet's office, he didnt become better. We did the typical environment allergy blood test, and all other remedies the vet has recommended, and we even took 1 shot of cytopoint, ended up his condition worsen. He got himself in pool of blood daily from scratching, full body hives and things are pretty out of control. The mom, didn't really sleep for days, she research as much as she could to find out what could be happening to our pup. Ever since, she stop him from his antihistamines, antibiotics, everything that the vet gave, she threw it away, every single medication, medicated shampoo, steroid creams, deworm pills, flea tick medication, all down the rubbish bin!
We came to realise the problem..
The mom realised that conventional methods is designed for acute care and it is very good for that most of the time. It Is also useful for diagnosis, prognosis and evaluating response to therapy.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t have a good record for chronic diseases. Conventional methods often just relieve symptoms temporarily. They merely suppressed symptoms, while the cause of the disease would rage on untouched, continuing to destroy tissue and life force at ever deeper and deeper levels.
And these are the things that are actually affecting his immune system. Her heart was filled with guilt and pain. Crying for days on why didn't she make enough researching before even having him home with us, and now our poor baby is suffering with a big bald hole on his head, red armpits and groin, body full of hives, red paws on all his 4 legs, fur loss, scabs, dandruff, spots everywhere, rashes on his belly, our poor baby cant really sleep well and has to be on cone for 24/7 and not able to do any socializing to get his quality of life due to his nursing from all these immune mediated symptoms.
The healing process..
From the researching process, we chanced upon Glacier Peak Holistics Pet Wellness Life Stress Scan (a.k.a food & environment sensitivity test) from the US and we took a leap of faith and did the test. To our shocking, he has alot of red flags in his results! 🙈😖 And following the results, with the help from the holistic pet community out there, we decided to explore fresh food diet instead after learning about all the greatness of it.
But unfortunately the sensitive stomach issues arise. Tried to do cold turkey (taking advice from the raw food companies themselves) to raw diet but ended up with pooping blood. Luckily with some other help in the pet community here in Singapore, we managed to get him on cooked diet to stable his poo 1st instead before trying the raw again. The 2nd time of transition was alot better but towards the end, he still ended up with bloody stools. Hence we got him back to cooked again. And the 3rd time, with the help from another vet that is pro-raw, finally managed to transit into a raw diet that suits him successfully. Finally, after 12 months of intensive food transitioning!
Not only just changing of diet, we also incorporated many other natural supplements and natural skin remedies as well. With the right diet, suitable supplements, skin maintenance, our boy's skin issues started to go away and heal.. that is when we knew this is his journey and this is what led us further and deeper onto this journey. It is definitely not a easy job for both the mom and dad, and it is definitely not going to be easy to all that are reading this and facing the same itching crazy skin symptoms. In total we went through 1year+ of craziness. And that period gave ourselves a good learning curve into giving our puppy time patience and lots of care and support and the achievement is totally worth it.
The result is a holistic solution..
The mom now knows that by comparison, when you use alternative/holistic methods, natural therapies nourish the whole body – the mind, body and spirit – in the effort to encourage natural healing mechanisms for health and homeostasis. The allergy-type symptoms goes away, it’s because we have altered the course of the disease, and the body no longer needs the symptom.
You are what you eat and digest. Diet being the foundation for health. Hippocrates uttered 2,500 years ago “Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine by thy food”. However much of the food reaching our tables these days is grown on soil degraded by years of intense commercial farming and agrochemicals. With nutrients depleted from our soil, environmental contaminations and high toxicity, high quality supplementation are highly recommended to have a profound preventive and therapeutic impact to raise our animals to the level of optimum health throughout their life-time.
Another part of the solution is for pet parents to learn what makes their animals sicker or healthier and to take appropriate actions. Being an educated pet owner is important. The more you recognize what wellness is, the better you can understand illness. Know your animal. Keep up with holistic pet health resources. Become familiar with what health is so that when you see changes you can act promptly considering all the conventional and alternative methods that are available for you.
Our boy's skin problems has been resolved 80%, unless he comes in contact with something he is sensitive to again especially not during our supervision, he would flare again. But our tool box is always well prepared and we're experienced now to manage such symptoms and usually his symptoms would be resolved within less than a week without any medications. We only resorted to medication when he got into a super bad bacteria/parasites or something that bad that our tool box is not able to resolve.
JJ E-Homez Holistic Pet..
We started going deeper, researching and learn as much as we could about pet health, lifestyles, supplementation, nutrition and many other factors that would impact our pet's quality of life. In fact, we are still learning as of now and we believe we will never stop learning especially when every furkid is very individual on their own, and the lessons that our dear boy gave us is intense and something that money can't achieve.
Well with all the above, this is why we started this holistic pet store, our love for animals made us want to provide alternative solutions to help other pet parents too on their concerns by recommending ethical, safe, natural and premium quality pet products we can trust.
The start of the unfortunate...
Wangcai skin was great ever since we have turn into the natural and holistic path in managing him. Mom was loading herself on nutrition and helping other animals that crossed path with her. However wangcai do has a cascade of other issues, especially the joint conditions.
When symptoms started appearing, Wangcai was 3yrs-ish. We went thru xray to find out further more on the joint conditions because he was rubbing his thigh/hip area against the floor but there's no walking nor running issues at all. Looking at the 1st xray we did, doctor say there's no problem with the hips spine and not even the ankles and toes. We found nothing on joints. But we did found out that he has an enlarged protate and so doctor blame it on the prostate that was enlarged and say it could be hindering his hips area so he is rubbing his thigh/hip.
So mom took the advice and try to shrink the prostate with herbs that was recommended by the vet to see if it helps. About 4 months later, it didn't help and the prostate didn't shrink much. Doc advice to neuter this time round but because he has no clinical signs of prostate problems so vet has advised to think it through and try another herbal remedy. Because early neuter would have caused more joint problems and many other side effects too, so mom wanted more time to seriously think about it and at the same time she also wanted to try again another herbal remedy to shrink the prostate, if that is the cause of him rubbing the thigh/hip.
But at the back of her mind, she thinks it is the joints hips or wherever it is that is causing the joint symptoms and not the prostate enlargement issue at all, because Wangcai doesn't have issues on urination and totally no symptoms that is urgently required to neuter due to medical condition. Mom thinks it is the joint. But nevertheless she respected the vet's professional opinion and try again to do another herb for the prostate. At the same time mom also started giving regular chiropractic sessions and some form of hydrotherapy sessions because mom really thinks it is the joint.
Another 3 months passed and the prostate is still not shrinking, neither it is affecting his whole reproductive system. Zero symptoms. Chiropractic and hydrotherapy sessions has been giving some relief here and there but it is not yet fixing the joint conditions. So mom went in the vet again and say it is not the prostate and Dr say it is not the joint and mom was left figuring out alone.
Well, at that point we should have gone to seek for a few more opinions with other vets and even orthopedic vet, but frankly speaking financially we were struggling due to covid, mom's events agency was not able to run alot of projects, only online projects, competition on our events agency went from bad to worse. Dad's emcee hosting gigs also halted and dad could only work on deliveries and transportation like grab to earn as much as possible as he needs to feed the house. We also started JJ E-Homez Holistic Pet during covid, before all these casscade of issues with wangcai, managing the cash flow of the old and new business as well as making ends meet on our daily requirements is really really not easy for us especially when we're bootstrapping our business. Financially and mentally we are drained and thus we were holding back to see if there's a way we could figure out which part of the joint is giving the problems.
The continuing of chiropractic and hydrotherapy sessions also needs to be lessen on the frequency due to our financial constraints, wanted to start Physiotherapy but was also taken back looking at all the financial going on. So sadly in reality, without much diagnostic done, we actually can only do that much. And mom just had to continue working harder on her Events agency as well as the new pet store business, dad continues to fight for all the emcee gigs he could grab and drive and delivers just for all of us to survive while waiting for the economy to slowly bounce back. So because of everything, mom didn't managed to have time to further research on what could be possibly happening to the joint. She was just giving relief and relief at that point.
Unfortunately, wangcai experienced a ccl injury when we daycare him with one of the home sitter. His temperament has always been crazy, due to fear factor that was inflicted by a trainer when he was still a puppy. Ever since he doesn't have the best temper when seeing another dog or certain objects that he is afraid of. We should have searched for a better trainer back then but damaged has been done. And we just gotta managed his temperament since then. So the house sitter doesn't seems to be able to control him or to be more aware of the surroundings and allows him to launched etc and thus hurting his hind legs.
We went back to the vet again and can't really see much either and vet just passed of as some ccl injury. We continue to rest him and giving relief whenever we could. He kinda recovered after about 1 week from the injury, but due to work and he cant be home alone due to anxiety, I had to place him to another centre for daycare and all these just sets off on what's about to come.. too much activities going on, not enough of rest.
The IVDD tragedy...
Multiple relief was given with our best ability, wangcai is 4yrs old now and we are really managing just ok on his joint relief and working on our finances. Arguments between mom and dad was inevitable especially when comes to financials. It just stressed out the entire family, it just happened that period was our downtime. But as calm as we could be so not to bring stress to wangcai, the tragedy still happened.
One morning, wangcai woke up and was walking weird. I thought he injured himself again. Dad who has been part of a group of frenchie ivdd, caught him legs and told me it could be ivdd. Mom knows ivdd but doesn't know deep. The only thing she knows was to do surgery relief of the protrusion. Not sure if it was injury or ivdd, we scheduled a vet visit again but this time round was another vet. Sadly when noon came, wangcai weakness worsen and our appointment is at 5pm which was the earliest appointment we could get. Forbidding him from jumping and walking anymore was what mom knows and of cos to get treatment done asap. Mom had to send wangcai alone to the appointment as dad has an emcee gig that can't be pushed off. Mom had to managed everything alone.
Upon reaching the clinic, after a quick assessment, Dr say it is ivdd and had to refer us to the nearest hospital to get treatment. Mom is lost of words. Dr had called all the hospital in Singapore but none except for one hospital that could take wangcai in. When Dr reveals the fees to Mom, mom collapse just by the screening CT scan alone is going to cost 9k due to it is Friday after operation hours. Surgery fee itself will cost another 25k+ excluding hospitalization fees and meds. Mom went into blank and could only think of what is going to happen to our finances at the back of her head. Well mom still agreed to bring him over and called a cab. And since we are heading straight to the hospital we thought we were, the clinic didn't dispense any pain meds. By that time wangcai hind legs is already shivering. We got into the cab, and for one moment mom was looking at wangcai for answers. Wangcai was terrified and mom doesn't know how to react and doesn't know where to get the money on the spot if we go ahead. Mom has no reaction time at all. Suddenly mom turn the cab back home bcos she do not have the solution for my admission to the hospital, and with her blank mind, we went home forgetting about the medications support.
When we reached home, mom dig out all the pain relief for me and she was calling every hospital she can to see if she can schedule an operation for me tomorrow hoping to bring the cost lower to something we can afford without hesitant, and mom was crying and begging on the phone and at last one surgeon agreed to see him the next day 9am. At that point of time was 9pm, within hours wangcai's leg has gave way and he was dragging both his hind legs already. Mom was praying crying non-stop and giving me every thing in her tool box she could do.. When dad finally knocks off and came home, mom and wangcai was mentally drained and depressed.
Sadly in the middle of the night the pain was unbearable and the commotion started when mom wanted to carry wangcai to let him pee, but without knowing anything on first aid emergency situation management, mom ear resulted with a deep bite from wangcai who is in deep pain. Mom's ear was bleeding badly, dad also was not trained for first aid also gotten a few deep puncture on his hand from wangcai when he was trying to break mom away from wangcai's bite. We placed him back to the bed, wangcai was stiff with his eyes wide open and scared and in severe pain, mom was crying holding her bleeding ears that almost got ripped off, dad holding his bleeding hand that got punctured. It was a horror and bloody scene. Everyone was broken down.
Mom rushed herself to a 24hr clinic nearby to get herself treated while dad try to look after wangcai and self managed his bleeding hand. Luckily no stitching is required and just some bandage for mom's ear.. when mom got home it was already 4am. And seeing wangcai in fits again, we just gotta rushed him to the nearest hospital to see what can be done. We decided to wrap him in blanket so we can use the blanket for protection if bite were to happen again.. luckily with the blanket wrap, we managed to deliver him to the hospital.
Seeing his condition the nurse also helped me to check on her side if any of their surgeon could perform the operation for wangcai but answers can only come by 8am when their surgeons are awake for the day. The appointment with the other clinic was 9am. Mom weigh to see which place could give us the fastest outcome and it was definitely 9am as that has been scheduled, but mom still tell the current hospital to still check when their surgeons are awake.
Wangcai's pain is now managed by the emergency and is under control. Dad got another emcee gig to work the whole day so once again mom was being alone having to make every decision alone with that blank mind. As much as mom doesn't want to move me as much, but when their surgeon say they can only operate on wangcai 2pm, and the other appointment was scheduled at 9am, mom just blindly thought the 9am would be a better choice to get the treatment done faster.
Sadly, mom was wrong. When we reach at 9am we still gotta wait until 10am+ before the surgeon could see wangcai. And to mom's disappointment, that surgeon initially wanted to reject surgery because he had a full day of appointment and mom then realized this was just an appointment to see what could be done and not a surgery appointment. Mom broke down and cry and started begging that surgeon to do the surgery now.. after begging for about 10min, and surgeon was finding solution on how to push away some of his appointments, he agreed to do so but we had to wait as he has some appointment that had already reached the clinic and he has to attend to them. So sadly we could have not move wangcai and waited for the 2pm surgery instead of moving and still gotta wait for the surgery at this current clinic. But we can't turn back anymore, so we can only wait and mom accompanied wangcai as the nurse got busy to get him prepared for the surgery. The only imaging diagnostics they did prior to the surgery was only xray as that was the only imaging facility they have.
This was the 1st time mom had a inside view on what goes into the preparation of a surgery, the surgery theater as well as for the patient. During the preparation duration, wangcai was still laying on the assessment table in pain but controlled and mom was comforting him. There were times mom saw wangcai's eyes was telling her he is scared and dun wish to go into surgery. But sitting there mom had no other alternative solutions in her tool box, she insisted that we listen to the vet this time as mom does not have that set of knowledge yet on what else can be done. Mom keep telling wangcai to believe the vet and be brave and not to be afraid. Tears continue to roll down mom's face and mom started to flash back on all the things that she could have done earlier to prevent this episode from happening. And she also regret on not staying in the previous clinic to wait for the 2pm surgery, because by the time the surgeon finished his appointments that was already there and with all the necessary surgery preparations, it was already 3+pm. And also she regret it because the earlier facility is a hospital equipped facility with more imaging diagnostics compared to this current clinic which even though has a surgery theater but not well equipped with imaging diagnostics. But all mom can do was regret on his decision making that day with that blank mind.
Soon it was time for mom to leave the preparation room while they shifted wangcai into the theater. Mom and wangcai had a last kiss and conversation of assurance and off wangcai went into the surgery. But there was a slight delay due to not enough credits left on mom's credit card and the clinic insisted that they can only start the surgery only upon full deposit payment. Mom couldn't reach dad in time for the payment, and fortunately mom's friend was there with her and helped her out on the remaining outstanding on the deposit payment before the surgery finally started at 4pm.
That was the reality that my mom is facing, no money no movement, regardless of life and death. Mom just needed to get hold of dad to make the transfer for the shortfall and the clinic can't even wait for it. Even though it was being settled, mom got a taste of what money could have save or damage. The reality is a cruel bitch. Dad at last finished his work and rushed down. Paid back mom's friend on the shortfall and calm mom down and waited for the 4-5hrs surgery to end and to also send me to their hospital ward facility for hospitalization until discharge is allowed. You see why mom regretting her selection, not knowing so many things about facility and services available beforehand.
Surgery ended and was told it was successful and it is now up to wangcai to see he could walk again or paralysed on the hind legs as surgeon prognosis was just 50% to walk again. So we carefully transport wangcai over to the hospital facility and admitted him for post surgery observations. After settling down wangcai, mom and dad went home to rest after the whole saga.
The next day hospital called mom and advised her to bring food over as wangcai dun wish to eat hospital food.. mom prepared and quickly rushed down to visit and to also passed the food. That was day 1 post surgery. Everything was ok, wangcai is eating well on mom's food and awake from his anesthesia. Every aspect look optimistic and mom and dad was ready to prepare the resting and recovery area for wangcai when he is being discharged. Dr says if everything goes well he could discharge wangcai after 2 days in order to help on our finances. The surgery was already 20+k, hospitalization is charging 2k+ per night. So doctor wanted to lower down our cost and suggested early discharge if everything is fine.
So day 1 was ok, day 2 was even better, wangcai was looking brighter than day 1, he continues to eat what mom brought and everything looks pretty good for wangcai, and upon doctor's review wangcai can be discharged the next day. We are so happy to hear that and the only thing we need to continue on our end is to feed medication they have prepared on time just like what the nurse will do during hospitalization. And we are the ones doing it instead of the nurse so we save the money that way. We just had to learn how to feed the medication on behalf. And so day 3 came and Dr had a last look and mom learned from the nurse and wangcai was discharged on day 3 evening.
The Death of mom and dad...
So wangcai is home, still paralysed, with lots of medication on hand. And wangcai started wanting to move because he realized he was home and he wants to be involved, he wants to be at home and be comfortable. But he cant move and eventually gave up moving then. 1st night was hard, mom gotta be awake on certain time to feed certain medications but all is good, wangcai just need to be beside mom and dad all the time and that was just how sticky wangcai is and how much mom and dad was also dependent on him. They needed each other to survive.
We all readjusted ourselves with the new rest area where wangcai will sleep together with mon and dad, and watch over mom and dad do things without moving. The next day came 4th day post surgery. Morning was still fine with breakfast and all. But when noon came, wangcai started yelping and mom started to panic and started figuring what wangcai needed. The yelping was just random and it should be pain, says the nurse when mom called back the hospital regarding his condition. Was told to continue monitoring. But the yelping became more and more frequent as we move nearer into the evening 5pm, and mom also realized the front legs had also gotten weak and eyes were more groggy and mom called the hospital again, but hospital nurse say it is normal as the medication is strong and could make wangcai more groggy and more weak.
But dinner and meals after that became difficult, wangcai started to be not able to eat by himself, even mom hand feed. Mom thinks something is really wrong and wanted to send wangcai back to the hospital at 7+pm but hospital say to just monitor as it is normal for them to be in pain and disoriented with the strong medications. So mom continues monitoring until dad knocks off and is at home together monitoring too. Mom and dad is on our toes everytime wangcai makes a sound. Mom continues calling the hospital for hours in the night but no one was able to tell mom what might be going on and they can't do anything except for us to continue monitoring. But hey mom monitoring threshold is reaching and her gut sense something is not right under her eyes even she is not trained in that manner. She's just using her gut sense.
And by about 3am on one of wangcai's medication dose, mom decided to wake up dad who has been drained out from work and worrying at the same time, together we send wangcai back to the hospital again. Mom argued with the nurse over the phone that she really need wangcai to be looked at and request for doctor etc. But to mom's shock, there's no attending 24hrs doctors around in a hospital facility?? Mom demanded someone to attend to wangcai's condition no matter what, and nurse managed to get the doctor and relayed wangcai condition to him and get his instructions while we are sending wangcai back to the hospital.
Upon arriving the hospital, instructions has been given by his operating surgeon, and the nurse took over wangcai and started to give him a stronger pain killer and wangcai started to calm down. We were instructed to come in the noon where the surgeon will meet us to go over wangcai's conditions.
So we left as mom once again need to prepare food for the hospital to feed and dad also need to head home get freshen up for another work day. Never would we thought that was the last trip dad is sending wangcai to and that was the last meal mom is preparing for. The appointment with the surgeon was 2pm. But mom wanted to deliver the food earlier so wangcai can have his medicine on time, so mom went back to the hospital at around 1230pm. It is a busy day in the hospital with situations happening around and all..
Mom passed the food to the nurse and sat beside wangcai's cubicle to accompany and watch him.. to her another shock, wangcai seems to have difficulty in breathing and questioned the nurse, and was told oh just now the oxygen was faulty blah blah blah but it is now back up and they're monitoring wangcai blah blah blah... mom started crying again and continue to sit there watching wangcai while nurses get busy with what they supposedly have to. But mom's heart had a bad feeling. Dad was rushing down after knowing from mom that he seemed to be in critical.
Wangcai caught a short glimpse of mom, and suddenly mom saw seizure episode infront of her eye and after 2 sec wangcai stopped breathing, she went crazy grabbing nurses shouting at her top of her lungs asking for help. Nurses carried wangcai on the table and the attending pushed me out and shouted "code blue, cpr now" to the nurses. The door closes infront of mom. Mom broke down, falling to the ground shouting and crying.
After 2-3min or so, the vet came out and hold mom and said he is sorry, wangcai came back for few seconds take a look at everyone on the table and passed on. While dad was rushing down, mom was alone, shocked, helpless, no longer in a clear state of mind, mom feel like dying, the entire sky has fallen upon her. Mom can't breathe, a piercing pain stabbed her heart, crying her heart out on the floor looking at the icu door that they're forbidding mom to enter. Mom lost everything, even herself. It was the worst day of her life. Her asthma attacked as well. In the meantime, dad was having a mini commotion at the parking space with some unreasonable un-compassionate non-pet lover. At last dad arrived beside mom holding her together and burst into tears. As the dad, the only pillar in the family, he had to swallow as much as possible, be as composed still, but inside his world was totally upside down, he is in pain but he needs to be strong for mom.
Our world came to an end. The lost of wangcai shocked us and we cannot believe seeing him laying motionless when the nurse carried him out to the slient room where they allow us to hold him and stay there while we are processing the fact that he has left us alone and we need to make cremation arrangements for him. The operating surgeon came and said sorry that this had to happen and blah blah blah.. and explained that wangcai had complications from the surgery.
Nothing, nothing is going in our heads at all, nothing they say is going give us back our wangcai. Surgeon explained that this is a myelopathy that he has escalated from the surgery. There was a thousand why in our heads, but that moment we cant process any why, we just wanted to spend time holding him and saying we're sorry. Dad made the best arrangement that was offered by the hospital and we are allowed to bring him home until the cremation come by to collect him. Mom and dad spent the last night sleeping with his cold body. Our home was empty, with just tears and cries from mom and dad filling the house. It was such a difficult night for mom and dad.
Close friends and families all turn up at the cremation and it was everyone's last goodbye to wangcai. It was never a goodbye to mom and dad, it was a see you at home at a much later date. Our house has since lost the vibrance, mom especially lost the fighting spirit. Mom went into guilt mode, she started finding all the reasons on everything that went wrong, what should she and shouldn't have done. Mom wanted to stop JJ E-Homez because of guilt and just wanted everything to stop. But dad was pillar of mom's mental health and talk her out on how much our son would love to see mom helping other animals in his name. Mom then went into deep research about IVDD, Dad on the other hand trying to hold the fort so their love would not crumble. Mom and dad buried themselves into work.
Mom focused on bootstrapping JJ E-Homez and continued her pet nutrition studies and she also started to do home daycare and boarding for dogs whenever she could. Dad continues to focus on his emcee host, and be a voice for the animal shelter when he could. Wangcai never left us, his spirit had accompanied and blessing mom and dad since then in everything they do.
Selling our flat..
Fast forward 7 months later, we had to do what we had to do to keep us afloat. The financial stress we face since covid on the down in the event scene, bootstrapping trying a new path due to covid, all the treatments for our son, surgery and all the after math.. it was really a huge hit and struggle for us as an average income family. Instead of asking help from friends and family, our best capacity was our flat to go, in order for us to breathe again.
The born of JOOF...
At the same time, we also decided to evolved from JJ E-Homez to JOOF. JOOF basically was inspired by the word woof as the communication language of a dog. JOOF was born to represent wangcai's voice that is always inside us, speaking to us, wanting us to listen and to find out what he wants us to know.. Every bark, every noise, every expression and every movement they make is always telling us something, from happy to pain. So we wanted JOOF to be the alternative aiding support for all the animals that crossed path with us, by going into deep detective works together with the pet parents on why their animal is having certain symptoms and more, also for some conditions on how JOOF can aid in further support with our range of alternative natural products that assist and promote health on the whole well-being of an animal.
The adoption of BeanBean...
Since wangcai passed in 14th Dec 2022, we have been researching about frenchie genetics and getting in touch with frenchie ethical breeders from Australia as we wish to have another furbaby in our life when we are ready for it. The void that we feel was too strong, our love for frenchie just overwhelmed us too much. Dad really wants a furbaby soon. And it was also by chance, we have been seeing alot of frenchie adoption around, dad and mom applied for some however we didn't gotten any response. So we thought we might as well just wait for the ethical breeder side in mid 2024 for their litter.
Then one day we saw another adoption post that was by our friend who runs a shelter. We saw BeanBean and somehow there was a strong connection that lead us to visit her the very next day at our friend's shelter. We stayed at the shelter for hours just to see how well we connects and to our surprise, she connected with both dad and mom right away. BeanBean is a ex-breeding mom, very chilled with other dogs, get curious on cats, very very sweet and gentle lady. And so we decided to adopt her. She also comes along with alot of her own conditions, but we love her at first sight, and love has covered all the flaws she comes with.
But we do learnt our lesson on the financial needs for such breeds, and now she has a savings account for herself, where we will contribute monthly for all her required expenses. We will also be looking at possible pet insurance for her, but due to her age it can be quite a challenge, but we see what we can do for her.
But no matter what, here she is, our newly adopted furbaby who is going to continue to give mom and dad life lessons and to assist in leading JOOF on behalf of wangcai.
Thank you for reading,
With love from JOOF Holistic Pet family.