I feel poor. (Yes! Again.)

It appears that while Xmas comes for us humans once every year, Genie celebrates 'Xmas' every other weekend.

That's because her toys get destroyed every other weekend.

She still had like 5 toys 2 weeks ago. I double checked that last Friday - she had 2 left. Red squishy sound making toy was thrown away because it cut her gum. Pink Bone chew Toy was missing for a week. And we threw away her favourite key ring chew toy - it was worn down to the point whereby we can hardly recognise it as a plastic ring of plastic keys.

Which left her with a ratty (and smelly) rope thing, and an orange treat dispenser toy.

So Melvin and I dropped by this petshop near our place to get her a simple toy to tide her over a few days before we REALLY go toy shopping after the 15th (Pay Day)

I ended up buying her a dress, doggie pants, and a cheap $2 bouncy ball.

The bouncy ball was chewed through in 5 minutes. We were throwing it around to play catch with her, and stopped to walk to the fridge to get a drink. When we came back, the ball wasn't even ROUND anymore. It was flaking off, and there was this hole... which she managed to chew through.. and parts of the mangled ball was strewn around the living room.

It died a violent death.

Dress and doggie pants - save for CNY *beams*

ANYHOW - that meant another trip to ANOTHER petshop (PLC in Bugis) and a good $50 more on 2 new toys, treats, and dentalbones.

At this point, I'd like to highlight that

1) Her toys cost $10-$20 each
2) Her clothes cost $25-$40 on average -which is hell more than what I spend on MY clothes.
3) I wanted a dog, not a cash guzzler

*sadness*

I should try and cut down on buying things for Genie.. but when she looks at me, tilts her head and give me that 'look' - I start wanting to buy things for her.

Oooo I see doggie Cheongsum online. And Oooo OMG doggie wedding dresses too!
Hm - I think my wallet just went into seizure.