This summer we adopted a rescue dog that has become the source of a tremendous amount of joy in our lives. In Shenzhen, dogs found running loose on the streets are taken to designated vets’ offices and if not claimed within a week are put down. Our pug was one such dog. We named him Qiu Bi Ta but call just call him Qiu Bi which is the Chinese translation of cupid.
Qiu Bi was amazingly housebroken and is extremely well behaved. I usually take him out every morning around 6-630 and in the evenings Pei Lin usually takes him out when we get home. The last few weeks we have started to walk him together after dinner and letting him off his leash as we walk through our apartment’s garden. He will walk about 15-20 feet ahead of us and then circle back around and us and never going to far.
On one of our walks, Pei Lin ran out of sight as Qiu Bi walked away and thus began our game of hide and seek. As soon as Qiu Bi turned around to walk back to us he realized Pei Lin was gone and began running around trying to find him. Qiu Bi backtracked our steps, running up sidewalks and to the different buildings until he found Pei Lin. We have increasing gone further or hid in more hard to find places and so far he hasn’t failed in finding us yet.
