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And Mika turns 4!!!

Posted in Food, Mika, My love for Animals, Recipe, tagged birthday, Mika, shiba inu on February 15, 2012| 2 Comments »

8th February was Mika’s birthday! And once again she gets her annual home baked birthday cake. This year it was banana & peanut cake with cinnamon cream cheese icing which she didn’t really fancy. I shall revert back to the carrot & peanut butter cake with cottage cheese icing again next year!

Couldn’t celebrate Mika’s birthday on the day itself because of work schedule so we did a belated one with close family & brought her to Kallang Park for a nice stroll. Mika was treated with steamed broccoli mixed with stewed pork for dinner & birthday cake for dessert! She was one happy pooch that night…

I simply love Mika’s face when we have the birthday cake in front of her as if she knows it’s her special day & she can eat it! It’s different when we have her with human birthday celebrations! Well, another year has passed and she’s 4 human years now. No longer a puppy but still a puppy in my eyes!

Love u my little Mika!

XOXO
Jessica

P.S. this is the dog cake recipe which Mika didn’t like:

Banana Peanut Dog Birthday Party Cake
2/3 cup ripe mashed bananas
1/2 cup softened safflower margarine
3 large eggs
3/4 cup Water
2 cups unbleached white flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped peanuts
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C)
In mixing bowl, beat together mashed banana and butter until creamy. Add eggs and water. Beat well. Stir in dry ingredients. Beat until smooth. Add nuts. Spoon batter evenly into oiled and floured bundt pan. Bake for about 35 minutes. Cool on wire rack 5 minutes, remove from pan, replace on rack and cool.

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What’s In My Bag Feature on Ezrabelle

Posted in Acting, Diving, Fashion, Mika, tagged ezrabelle, Jessica Tan, Mika on October 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Thank you Rachel for featuring my bag in your blog!!!

If you are interested in the article that she did up please visit http://ezrabellesg.weebly.com/-wimb.html to read it.

XOXO
Jessica

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Mika Loves Addiction!

Posted in Food, Mika, My love for Animals, tagged Addiction, Dog food, Mika on September 16, 2011| Leave a Comment »

I’ve been trying so hard to look for THE canned dog food that Mika will love. Tried so many brands for my sweetie but she seems to get sick if it after 2 days and the rest of the can has to be given added treats like cheese, fresh meat, dehydrated chicken etc for her to want to eat it!

This week, I opened a brand new can of “Black Forest Rabbit & Blueberries” from Addiction and she simply loves it! The whole can of food is finished by her willingly without coaxing & she looks forward to meal times. Not only that rabbit meat is lower in calories which us healthier & its grain free formula has blueberries! I love blueberries & so does my Mika! Rich in anti-oxidants good for my doggie…

If you have a picky eater, maybe you should try Addiction?

XOXO
Jessica

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Happy Rabbit Year & Mika turned 3!

Posted in Food, Mika, My love for Animals, Recipe on February 8, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Hello Peeps!

Today’s Mika’s puppy day! 8 February. Time really flies and in a blink on an eye she is 3 (or 21 in doggie years). Little adult doggie refusing to grow up!

For her birthday treat, I made her her favourite Peanut Butter & Carrot cake & my take on doggie Italian Meatballs just for her! (Disclaimer: all the above food is made for special doggies with doggie specific recipes)

For her birthday cake recipe (really simple!) here it is for all those who wanna bake a treat just for their paw friends.

1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/3 cup peanut butter (preferable organic)
1 cup shredded carrots
1/4 cup sunflower oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup honey

1. Whisk the flour & baking soda together until evenly mixed
2. Put in the rest of the ingredients into the electric mixer
3. Mix well
4. Place dough into a 6 inch baking tin – well oiled & lined.
5. Bake at 180 degrees celsius for 30 minutes
6. Icing – cream cheese & peanut butter

Mika’s Italian Meatballs
100g of minced pork
1 heaped tablespoon of Parmesan cheese
2 teaspoons of mixed Italian herbs
A pinch of pepper
1/2 cup of shredded carrots

1. Put all the ingredients into a bowl & mix well with a fork
2. Roll the mixture into 1 inch meatballs
3. Pan-fry the meatballs quickly till outside is lightly browned
4. Place the meatballs in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 10minutes until meatballs are cooked through.

Happy Rabbit year to all of u! I’m sure Mika is having a happy start & hope you are too!!!

XOXO
Jessica

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Mika & her Blind Date Part II

Posted in Mika, My love for Animals, tagged Mika, vivo on April 12, 2010| 5 Comments »

Here’s more photos of mika’s date!

I love the photo of them playing even tho it’s blur! Gives movement ‘effects’!

XOXO
Jessica

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Mika And Her Blind Date!

Posted in Mika, My love for Animals, tagged Mika, vivo on April 11, 2010| 8 Comments »

Hello!!!

Mika went on a blind date 2 weeks back to meet handsome Vivo! It was a rainy day so plans changed from having a romantic date at Marina Barrage to a nature meet up at the Botanic Gardens.

Mika: “I’m so excited meeting my second male Shiba. Will he be my potential mate? I wonder what he will be like? I hope he’s a looker and has good character! Hmm… But I can’t seem so eager when I see him. I must play the game and be slightly aloof! Great! That’s my plan.”

So when Vivo first arrived – he was late for his first date. (minus points, but I shall forgive him since it’s raining) Mika was very shy and took some time to warm up to him. But when she finally warmed up, they played ferociously and it was totally adorable! Chasing each other around and play fighting. Vivo is really big sized and Mika looks soooo tiny beside him! But Mika is more feisty then Vivo even though there’s a big difference in size!

Vivo and Mika had great chemistry and she’s looking forward to meeting up with him again! What a great start!

Here’s some photos of their blind date! I’ll post up more when I get others from another camera.

XOXO
Jessica

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Mika receiving Birthday Present

Posted in Mika, tagged mika shiba inu on March 28, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Hello!!!

My friend passed me Mika’s belated birthday present d other day and when Mika saw it she got really excited!!!

She’s one happy doggie with new toys!

XOXO
Jessica

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Mika turns TWO!

Posted in Mika, My love for Animals, tagged Mika on March 23, 2010| 8 Comments »

Happy Birthday Mika!

Precious little silly doggie turned 2 in February. Had a TINY celebration for her inviting her 2 favourite playmates – Alvin & Su over to spend this Happy Puppy Day!

We initially wanted to bring her to a pet cafe to celebrate but it wasn’t opened that day. So, I scoured the internet for a yummy doggie cake recipe and whippped up a doggie cake for Mika.

It’s made out of carrots, honey, oil, peanut butter and flour, topped with cottage cheese icing (Mika’s favourite) and peanut butter decorations. And boy did she enjoy the cake! It was a real treat for her!

As U can see, Mika is salivating just looking at her cake!

Do Check out Mika’s new PAGE “Mika” on my blog!

Signing off for now, “woof”

XOXO

Jessica

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i-weekly Supplement Feature

Posted in Fashion, Mika on October 8, 2009| 8 Comments »

Last week’s i-weekly did a feature on my home! Mika was so cute during the interview and photo taking. She was running around being really curious and wondering why there was so many people around!

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Mika, it's Snowing!

Posted in Mika, tagged Mika, shiba inu on July 25, 2009| 11 Comments »

Lucky (or to her it may be unlucky) lil’ Mika had her bath today! As her breed doesn’t need to take a bath as often as others (once every 3-4 weeks) because her coat will form a natural waterproof coat and thus will not smell. I read that if we shower her too often, this waterproof coat will never form and chances of her smelling stronger is higher!

I’ve been taking care of her for about a year now, and she really does not smell like other dogs even after a month without a shower!

BUT…

It’s her shedding season again! (twice a year) And that’s when I get tumbleweeds at home! So, this time round when I showered her, I was prepared to see a lot of fur fall off. But to my horror it was a lot more than I’ve expected!

I was happy to get a big tuff of fur off her during the shower, hoping that when I blow dry her my kitchen won’t be covered with her fur flying around.

Nope!

Mika surprises me once again! When I was blow drying her, I felt like it was snowing in my kitchen as fur was floating from the sky. After about an hour of blow drying her, she’s finally dry! (She loves to run around the kitchen while I’m drying her which makes it more tedious) And the 1st time in my life I see a HUGE ball of fur automatically gathered at a corner of my kitchen.