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.

Thursday, June 05, 2014

It's Voting Time. Your Vote is Needed for a Dog Sign... Thursday, June 5

Tonight someone decided to throw an excessive amount of caramel popcorn at my dogs.  I don't know who they are and I don't know what time it exactly happened but, upon me seeing the popcorn that obviously didn't make it into their doggy corridors, I was ticked.  I ended up asking the local neighboring shops to help keep their eyes open and report to me if they ever see such a situation again.  My dogs eat a healthy diet that consists of meat, spinach, bananas, apples, and eggs mixed in with their grade A dog food.  They do not eat popcorn!  

Feed my dog and I'll feed my dog YOU.

When you consider the fact that Pyen Chi eats raw meat, bones and all, and not anything remotely close to the sugarcoated, nasty movie popcorn someone had decided to throw at her, joking that I'll feed my dogs a person doesn't sound so far-fetched.  Carmel popcorn isn't healthy for a person to eat and it surely isn't healthy for a dog to eat, that's why both myself and my dogs don't eat it.  

Tonight's popcorn scene outside of their fenced in area was a first time situation but it got me worried.  There are many things people eat that are actually very dangerous for dogs to eat; many things that the flocks of public school students walking by surely eat but are totally unaware of the dangers they pose to dogs.  Chocolate, for example, can kill a dog but what kid doesn't eat chocolate?  Exactly.  I am sure whomever tried to feed my dogs popcorn surely just thought it'd be innocent fun and that they meant no harm but there is a great potential for harm if they throw other foods, not to mention I don't want my dogs to get used to people approaching them when they're in their caged in corridor.  Pyen Chi is a rare $3000 pure bread so it's best she stays wild when out on the steps.  She and the others are there to guard our side door.  They've proven to be perfect security so far and I want to keep them as such.  Moreover, my dogs are not in some kind of petting zoo, out there on the steps for random people to pet them or feed them whatever they'd like.  They are my babies and only I feed my babies, thank you very much.

I really don't want this is be a repeated situation so Snickers and I have decided that we must post some kind of sign. Snickers thinks a simple "don't feed the dogs" sign will work but leave it to me to let my creative juices flow and throw in an overdose of sarcasim into the signs I pondered up.  Here are the signs I thought up tonight.  I think short and sweet works best but I threw in some lengthy ones just because the ball in my head was rolling at full speed and I found such amusement in writing them out.  

POSSIBLE DOG SIGNS:

  1. Dogs will jump over the fence and ATTACK if teased and tormented -- KEEP WALKING.
  2. Dogs guarded by an owner that punches buses -- BEWARE OF OWNER!
  3. The more you disturb the dogs the more the owner will become disturbed and react -- BEWARE OF OWNER!
  4. Dogs will attack on command so don't touch or torment them... or the owners.  The owners will attack too!!!
  5. Our dogs are not garbage cans so please refrain from feeding them your trash (junk food).
  6. These dogs are protected by a Hulk.  If you dare feed them, tease them or torment them our Hulk will HULK SMASH you!!!
  7. Feed the dogs and their owner will open up a CAN OF CRAZY that you've never seen before!!!
  8. Dogs are trained to jump over the fence and attack on demand -- don't insist on getting their attention. You can't afford their misunderstanding.
  9. These are security dogs.  Their job is not to eat your junk food or wag their tails and let you touch them or tease them.  They CAN and they WILL attack if approached -- PROCEED WITH CAUTION.
  10. If you can't defend yourself against 72kgs, 3 mouths and 12 legs jumping over the fence, keep walking. There's an additional 133kgs, 2 mouths and 4 legs that will join them in round two so don't even try. 
  11. Make the dogs angry and you'll have to deal with their owner, the Korean Hulk.  And you know you don't want to make the Hulk angry!!!
  12. Don't disturb the dogs or their owners will disturb you.  Don't question what that means, carry on.
  13. The big dog, she eats steak for breakfast. Don't come too close or she may mistake the meeting as meal time.
  14. The little one, an escape artist/piranha in a Chihuahua's body.  Keep all fingers away from the fence and proceed with caution.  He can and he WILL escape and attack if agitated.
  15. The middle sized dog, he already hates you even though you've just met.  Give up and keep walking.
  16. If one of the dog barks, it's not barking at you but instead is calling it's owner, the Korean Hulk.  Don't make it call the Hulk. The Hulk smashes things first then asks questions later.  You risk not seeing a "later".

Which one do you like best? I'm curious.  Let's take a vote.

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