Knight - An American Making Singapore Home
Nine years. Almost a decade since
I first met Simo Kuar at the then Singapore Fashion Festival 2005. It is
surreal how we still keep in contact through the years, even when she went
along with her husband, Karam Singh to the United States.
Then came about Knight and Simo
says it was love at first sight back in August 2012.
“I was at PetSmart (a
huge warehouse for pet products) when I saw an attached animal shelter which had a couple of
puppies for adoption. That was when I saw Knight at eight weeks old who was
abandoned with his mother and sister at the state capital. We are not sure what
his bloodline was though he seems to have German Shephard, Bernese Mountain Dog
and probably a little Australia Shepherd. All this doesn’t matter as we love
him all the same,” she says.
When it was finally time for Simo
to return to Singapore, it was never a question whether Knight was to come back
to the little red dot with her. But transporting a pet via plane is no easy
task.
“There were tons of paper work
regarding his health and there those from EVA Air, which were all in Mandarin!
It was less of a headache when Karam’s colleagues rendered their help,” says
Simo.
But it was not paper work that
was their biggest problem but the flight home. “Knight was in a crate for
30-plus hours from Seattle, transiting in Taipei before reaching Singapore. We
even lined his crate as we didn’t think he could hold his bladder. But he
actually didn’t poop or pee till reaching Singapore’s quarantine centre where
he relived himself for a good 10 minutes,” says Simo.
It has been six months since
Knight has been in Singapore and he is slowly adjusting to life here. “He
obviously has issues with the heat! Also, he misses his friends back in the
States as he saw them almost every day. But he gets quite a bit of attention,
especially when he plays ‘fetch!’ at the field. People just stop and watch!”
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