“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY FEELS HIS BOOK IS BEING TAKEN OVER!

RORY FEELS HIS BOOK IS BEING TAKEN OVER!

I will reveal the complete story of my abduction up to my liberation. Bob is completing a contract with The Singapore Times for this big scoop. The payments will be used for bursaries for students at the Ngee Ann Polytechnic Veterinary Bioscience/Clinical Science.

An impostor even wrote a chapter in the book “HAS RORY BEEN KIDNAPPED AND HELD HOSTAGE IN SCOTLAND?”

It is time to tell my story!

I just want you readers to know I am doing well but I have suffered some trauma and  minor physical injuries which hopefully some chicken congee for breakfast and Singaporean Chicken for dinner can ameliorate!

I had a blast staying with Prime Minister Wong. A real dog lover that guy. I can feel it when he talks to me and gives me a jowl rub. I was sitting on his lap when he was conversing with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. They even talked about my liberation and Canada’s intention to relax its rules on the “importation” of rescue dogs. As a puppy at times I am living some high-flying life. Bob tells me I am destined for greatness?

Stay tuned readers. Enough about me. Let’s move to “from me”. My story starts next!

RKS Literature: A Final Warning to Ahab Against His Frenzied Chase of Moby Dick (Herman Melville)

 “Great God! But for one single instant show thyself,” cried Starbuck; never, never wilt thou capture him, old man-In Jesus’ name no more of this, that’s worse than the devil’s madness. Two days chased; twice stove to splinters; thy very leg once more snatched from under thee; thy evil shadow gone-all good angels mobbing thee with warnings.”

“What more wouldst thou have? – Shall we keep chasing this murderous fish till he swamps the last man? Shall we dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world? Oh, oh- Impiety and blasphemy to hunt him more!”.

Herman Melville, “Moby Dick”, 1851.

“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: BOB’S REMARKS AT PRESS CONFERENCE WITH PRIME MINISTER LAWRENCE WONG OF SINGAPORE

BOB’S REMARKS AT PRESS CONFERENCE WITH PRIME MINISTER LAWRENCE WONG OF SINGAPORE

Good afternoon.

Firstly, my sincere thanks to the Singapore Police Force for liberating Rory D. Stephen.

Secondly thank you to the hospitality extended to myself and Rory by the Prime Minister.

Thirdly thank you for the people of Singapore for their welcoming attitude and support. It is my second visit to Singapore and there will be many more.

My foundation, Dylan the Westie Foundation, will be providing SPCA Singapore with a 12,000,000 CDN grant. But more needs to be accomplished in Singapore to ensure canine abuse is eliminated and with this Prime Minister Wong agrees as he has just laid out for you. Laws need to be created or existing laws armed with teeth to protect “man’s best friend”.

Lastly, I will be staying on in Singapore a few more days to ensure Rory is well rested for our long journey back to Toronto. We will also be scouting out film shoot locations with the Singapore Film Office for what I plan to be a feature film or a documentary about Rory’s “adventure”. Nicole Kidman has expressed strong interest in producing these endeavours.

Thank you all.

Applause and Rory howling.

RKS Literature: The Frenzied Chase of Moby Dick (Herman Melville)

 “The frenzies of the chase had by this time worked them bubblingly up, like old wine worked anew. Whatever pale fears and forebodings some of them may have felt before; these were now not only now kept out of sight through the growing awe of Ahab, but they were broken up, and on all sides routed, as timid prairie hares that scatter before the bounding bison. The hand of fate had snatched all their souls and by the stirring perils of the previous day; the rack of the past night’s suspense; the fixed unfearing, blind, reckless way in which their wild craft went plunging towards its flying mark: by all these things their hearts were bowled along. The wind that made great bellies of their sales and rushed the vessel on by arms invisible as irresistible; this seemed the symbol of that unseen agency which so enslaved them to the race.”

Herman Melville, “Moby Dick”, 1851.

RKS 2026 WINES OF PORTUGAL: Domini Douro 2023

A blend of Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz and Touriga Francesca.

Grown in schist soil.

Aged three months in American and French oak.

The winery suggests a shelf life of 6 years.

Aroma: Black cherry, blackberry and black raspberry.

Palate: Full bodied. Tannic. Controlled acidity.  Black fruit with a hint of spice and licorice. Tannins pare back on the finish

Personality: Typical Douro grape suspects. Deceptive in that I initially present a tough boy character but go down smoothly.

Food Match: Black eyed peas in a sauce with tomatoes, carrots and celery with Cajun seasoning.

Cellarbility: Give it until 2029 expect marginal softening as its already quite soft.

Price: $18 CDN.

RKS 2026 WINES OF PORTUGAL Rating: 91/100. Roger Voss and Natalie MacLean 90.

Tasted 21April2026.

(J.M. da Fonseca Domini Douro 2023, DOC Douro, J.M. da Fonseca, Portugal, 750 mL, 12.5%).

“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom” :PRESS CONFERENCE OF PRIME MINISTER LAWRENCE WONG AND BOB AT SRI TEMASEK (official transcript)

PRESS CONFERENCE OF PRIME MINISTER LAWRENCE WONG AND BOB AT SRI TEMASEK (official transcript)

Prime Minister Wong: I would like to introduce you to Bob, master of Rory D. Stephen, who has stayed a few days with me and may I say he is a delightful pup. My grandchildren spent hours playing with Rory.

Cuteness and joy aside Southeast Asia faces serious canine abuse issues from illicit dog farming for meat in Vietnam, poisonings in Hong Kong and an increasing number of dog abuse cases in Singapore reaching record highs in 2024. SPCA Singapore receives an average of 80-90 reports of alleged cruelty to animals a month.

I have asked various ministers to form a task force to advise me what the Government of Singapore can do to eliminate animal abuse in Singapore and if governmental funds are necessary, they will be provided.

Rory was exposed to some abuse at Hong Kong’s International Airport by ways of kicks to his cage and threats to send him to Cambodia to sniff for land mines a job normally assumed by rats.

I am pleased to announce Bob’s Dylan the Westie Foundation will be providing a grant to SPCA Singapore of 12 million CDN.

Bear in mind Rory was the victim of primo canine trafficking (PCT) a profitable and somewhat novel form of canine abuse. Dogs of high intelligence and pedigree are sold at enormous prices to purchasers who may or may not have commissioned the trafficking and kidnapping. Let us not kid ourselves. This activity is occurring in Singapore.

This morning the Singapore Police Force (SPF) informed me that Melanie Lau, one of Singapore’s richest citizens, was arrested on charges of “the illegal transportation of animals” under the Animals and Birds Act of Singapore which carries a nominal fine amounting to peanuts for Ms. Lau. I have asked the Prosecutors Office to determine if more serious criminal charges should be laid.

As I stated earlier Rory D. Stephen will shortly be awarded the Singapore Medal of Valour.

Please listen to what Bob has to say now.

Thank you

Applause and Rory barking.

RKS Literature: The Saintly Earth of Maabar (Marco Polo)

“You should also know that a marvel such as I will describe happens here. Now let me tell you that the Christians who come here on pilgrimage gather some of the earth from the place where the saint was killed and take it back to their own country. If anyone falls ill with a quartan or tertian ague or some such fever, they give him a potion made with a little of this earth; and no sooner has the sick man drunk it than he is cured. Messr Marco took some of this earth with him to Venice and cured people with it.

Marco Polo (1254-1324), “Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls”

RKS Literature: The Big Sneeze in Maabar (Marco Polo)

“They pay more attention to omens than any other people in the world, and they are better than others in telling good omens from bad. For let me tell you that when a man sets out for some destination and happens along the way to hear someone sneeze, he immediately sits down on the road and will not budge. If the sneezer sneezes again, he gets up and continues on his way; but if he sneezes no more, he abandons his journey and turns back for home.”

Marco Polo (1254-1324), “Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls”

RKS Japanese Literature: Mothers of Their “Disappeared” Sons and Daughters Congregate at Las Casa de Gobierno in Buenos Aires : Part Two (Yoshimoto Banana)

“Whenever I caught a cold. My mother would mix up a drink for me, dissolving honey in hot water, adding a splash of whisky, squeezing in the juice of a lemon. She was still doing that for me when I was at high school. On one of those evenings when children were bleeding and being tortured here, I was being pampered by her. Maybe that is what this world is. Precisely that? For some reason my mother called her drink “bee honey”. No matter how many times I pointed out it was really more like ‘honey lemon’’ she said her name was better and kept it. I seemed to feel the hot, sweet taste of it filling my mouth. It’s the same all around the world. A mother’s scent. A whiff of the female body, and something heavy, sweet, endlessly deep. That scent was here now, filling the plaza, circling it, because there was no other outlet, going around and around.”

Yoshimoto Banana, “Bee Honey”, 2000.

“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: BOB, MASTER OF RORY D. STEPHEN ARRIVES IN SINGAPORE: TO MEET WITH PRIME MINISTER WONG AND REUNITE WITH RORY HIS WESTIE

BOB, MASTER OF RORY D. STEPHEN ARRIVES IN SINGAPORE: TO MEET WITH PRIME MINISTER WONG

THE SINGAPORE TIMES (Lok Bok reporter at large and gossip columnist)

Bob, Master of West Highland Terrier Rory D. Stephen, recently liberated by the Singapore Police Force (SPF), arrived early this morning from Hong Kong on Cathay Pacific.

Thoroughly exhausted from flying from Toronto he was just about seeing double and required assistance in completing his Singapore Arrival Card. He refused to be photographed but we did sneak an attempt without much success.

Bob did briefly converse with our “team on the ground” thanking the SPF and Prime Minister Lawrence Wong for their efforts in “busting free” Rory.

Bob was whisked off to the Singapore Shangri-la in an unmarked SPF vehicle. A previous visitor to Singapore and the Shangri-la he said a cold Tiger Lager, Singaporean noodles and a hot bath was a necessity.

Bob is scheduled for reunification with Rory at a private lunch hosted by Prime Minister Wong tomorrow at Sri Temasek.