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Furkid & Coney Island

Monday, May 16, 2016


To Cocoa’s delight, we are finally going to the much-raved Coney Island Park at Punggol! How ironic is it that, after being a Punggol resident for almost half a year now, we haven’t been to Coney Island once. Unfortunately public transport is out of the equation if you want to travel with a furkid, so if you want to bring pooch, it’s the good that you have your own car! However Honwee and I don’t own a car so we Grabbed ours. *Do let the driver know that you have little pooch with you, some drivers would refuse your ride if they see little pooch getting on board*


Drivers can park their car along the Punggol Settlement car park and walk along the stretch of restaurants to the gates of Coney Island! While the park is a walkable 2.4km trial, we decided to rent a bike because Cocoa is not the most athletically-inclinded of dogs. And trust me, carrying a 7kg hufflepuff is not the easiest thing to do on a day out.


If I am not wrong, there are a few bicycle shops at Punggol Settlement, but we got ours at a rental shop opposite the terrapin pond, near the roundabout. There are a few different types of bikes you can rent! Cocoa is small enough to fit in the basket, but if your pooch isn’t. there are also pet carriage for your Cinderedog. 



Us adjusting to the ride, I was probably too inappropriately dressed for parks. But zero mozzies’ bite so yay! 


There are monkeys around BTW, actually they are a lot of animals around (e.g. boar & cow) and you have got to mentally prepare that not all of them will like your pooch very much. I have a monkey creeping up near me to check Cocoa out. #truestory I cycled away as fast as I can just in case they thought it would be funny to snatch Cocoa away from me. Doesn’t help that furbz is only almost their size. 

Fled away safely. 




The hoomans and the doge took a breather after their near escape. *Remember to at least bring water for your dog! Stop for a few photographs and off we waddle again. 



*Cycles off to the horizon* 


and almost fell. 

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OKAY, ANYHOW, we managed to get to the other end of the park fairly quickly because we were on bikes and didn’t take much of a pit stop because the skies weren’t looking that great. 



but there was no shelter on the other end. 

LOL....


so we had to cycle back in to find shelter in the midst of a passing rain, and at some point of time I felt like Ash in the very first episode. I might or might not have screamed “don’t worry Cocoa, I will get you out of here” 


and obviously Cocoa didn’t look at me so admirably, it didn’t bother her that it was raining. But she was a little wet by the rain when we found shelter. I mean, we all were. 





The passing rain came and left quickly so we went on our tracks again. This time, stopping at instagram-worthy places to take photos. 





and then, there was pooch refusing to take photos.... 







It was a happy day for both the humans and the dog, Cocoa was all smiles and running around. And all these is humanly possible because I have the best human around to help me out (with photo-taking, bag carrier, drinks provider etc)  

Thank-you very much, best instagram boyfriend EVER. 


and you fluffy thing for being so easy to manage. 



Crystal, out. *drops mic