Tomorrow marks Pyen Chi the Pee Master Beast of Fur's 1st birthday and in anticipation of this Snickers and I have been pestering the shelters and inquiring about adopting a four-legged friend for her. Two dogs that we had our hearts set on turned out to be a no-go and then we got a lot of bad news with several adoptee potentials at a shelter out in Seoul. We've been looking for a puppy, a four-legged friend with a clean slate to add to our family here but all we've been coming up with are complications, friend-potentials with strings attached or caution signs.
It's hard to find a match for Pyen Chi from a shelter. I'm not going to say she's unlike any other dog but the fact that she's 90lbs and growing day by day poses a lot of problems for any potential four-legged friend with any kind of behavior problems or bad run-ins with other dogs.
I've never bought an animal from a pet store. Mi Nam was the closest I ever came to doing so. His mother's owner owned a pet store but had bred pups. Mi Nam was only available because the person who was supposed to adopt him decided that he was the odd one in the litter and so he left him there.
Tonight I bought a four-legged friend from a friend's pet store and I cringe at the fact but I'm happy with the addition we've made. We had decided that despite us moving soon and despite us being two huge fans of the outdoors and overly active individuals, that a chihauhau would best suit our family. We didn't think getting another big dog would be appropriate but were skeptical about a smaller dog because of the huge size difference. But a chihauhau... the world's tiniest dog that's fearless and wouldn't be nervous to take Pyen Chi or or put Pyen Chi in her place. So that's what we got -- Kim Balboa the chocolate chihauhau.
What was supposed to be a simple search in Cheonan for such a four-legged friend turned into an all afternoon event that took us to Seoul and returned us to Cheonan around 10pm. We came across Balboa late into the evening when a close friend suggested us to stop by. At first glance I wasn't very interested in him but then he opened his eyes up and look right into mine.
Pyen Chi had come along with us out to Seoul so it was fun introducing the two to each other as soon as Balboa was announced ours. Pyen Chi appeared quite nervous, not too sure whether or not Balboa was something to like or a threat to run away from. Balboa on the other hand looked wide-eyed at Pyen Chi, totally oblivious that Pyen Chi's head alone outsized him.
So now it's Snickers, me, Kim Pyen Chi the Pee Master Beast of Fur and Kim Balboa (Boa for short) here at Ggum Guum.
As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).
After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.
Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.
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