Giving Thanks and Eating Turkey

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!

Here's what I'm thankful for:
1. That Mommy adopted me and now I have the best family ever!
2. That I was spayed so I wouldn't have to be a puppy-factory at a puppy mill/backyard breeder like my poor dog-mom.
3. That I'm spoiled rotten with all the toys and clothes that I could ever want.
4. That I have lots of siblings to play with and that they don't treat me like a puny dog and let me roughhouse like a big dog.
5. That I always get to eat really yummy food, and that I got lots of turkey for Thanksgiving!
6. That I have lots of friends here on Dogster and offline too!
7. That stuffed squeaky toys have fuzz inside them for me to pull out, and that Mommy keeps sewing up my favorite toys no matter how often I rip them open and pull out all the fuzz.
8. Turkey! Did I mention turkey! Oh, I did, but it's worth mentioning twice! TURKEY!

Vet

I had to go see the vet today. There's nothing wrong with me, but for some reason Mommy thought I should go, and the vet and the vet techs thought they should stick me with needles. The needles weren't the worst part though... they also stuck stuff up my butt! I don't see what I did to deserve that. I mean, I know I can be naughty sometimes by not listening or jumping up on the furniture without being invited, but REALLY. I think sticking stuff up my butt is kinda extreme. I gave the vet techs really dirty glares for that. But then when it was all over, I forgave them and gave out a crazy amount of kisses.

Well, after all the poking and prodding, it was announced that I'm healthy. Of course I'm healthy, I could have told them that without needing all that poking and prodding, but they never seem to listen about stuff like that. They suggested that I not eat any foods that have beet pulp in them to see if that helps clear up my tear stains, but none of the foods I eat have beat pulp (Mommy just re-checked all the ingredients). So that wasn't very helpful. They also checked my microchip, and yep, it's still there. Duh, what did they think I'd do with it, dig it out from between my shoulders and stash it somewhere?

People can be so silly sometimes.

Haven't Posted In Awhile

Whoops, I just realized how long it's been since I posted here in my Diary last. Well, things have been same old same old for the most part. My big brother, Jack, went missing last month, but Mommy found him as soon as she found out he was gone from Robert. Mommy brought Jack over to the house while she was waiting for Robert to pick him up - it was great to see him again!

I spend most of the day outside now. I like being with the big dogs and getting to play. I still come inside and play with my feline brothers and sisters though. The older cats don't like to play with me as much, but Stitch is still my best kitty friend.

We have a new brother now! His name is Kody and even though he's big and was a stray, he's very well mannered and is gentle with me when we play. He's really just a big sweetheart and I like him a lot. I'm glad Mommy rescued him.

Mommy and Daddy have been cracking down on the No Jumping rule. It's hard for me because I'm so short, I always feel like I have to jump up to get them to notice me. But now I'm starting to figure out that jumping up gets me ignored, but if I stand or sit calmly, they'll love on me and praise me.

Tonight Mommy gave me a bath, and I'm feeling all nice and clean now. Wrangler got a bath too, but not Riley or Lulu. I wonder if it'll be their turns tomorrow. I think it'd be only fair.

Well I just noticed my favorite squeaky squirrel is laying all by himself in the living room. Time to go grab him and give him a good playing with.

Today's My First Birthday!!!

Woohoo! Today's my birthday! I am one year old today! I'm so excited! Mommy woke me up and gave me lots of hugs and kisses and sang me happy birthday. I got a special treat with breakfast, and I already got one present! A new harness! I chewed my old one up the other day, but now that I have a new one I can go outside and play with my sisters unsupervised. Mommy says there are more goodies and fun for me for the rest of the day too. I'm so happy! Today is MY special day! :D

My fun was spoiled!

I was running around Bryan's house just now, and I found the coolest thing ever! Hiding in a corner in the laundry room was a sandbox. So I started digging in it and found clumps of something or other. How cool, buried treasures! So I dug one up and picked it up in my mouth. I was so proud of myself, I ran all over the house with it. I decided I should show off my prize to Mommy, but when she saw what I had, she was mad at me! She scolded me and told me to drop it, and said that "kitty box crispies" are not toys. And then she picked it up in some toilet paper and flushed my new toy down the toilet. Not fair! :(

I don't want to nap, I want to play!

Everyone around here is so boring! All they want to do is lay around and nap. Mommy and her friend Bryan are both sick with the flu so they've been laying around in bed all day. Well I want them to play with me! Mommy says I have to be on my best behavior and be very quiet when Bryan is napping because he hates it when I whine and wake him up. So I try to be good and I've been laying in bed with Mommy and trying to stay still and quiet. But then I get excited and try to jump down and go run into the living room to play. Mommy distracted me with a bullystick for awhile but now I chewed it all up and it's gone. So Mommy says maybe it's time I took a nap in my kennel.

Why I am probably not purebred afterall

Mommy and some friends have been discussing whether or not I am a purebred chihuahua afterall. Now that I'm full grown and look how I'm gonna look, Mommy says I really don't look purebred. The lady that was my breeder SAID I was a purebred chihuahua, but can you really trust someone who is a BYB/puppymill? I think not. Mommy even got to meet my dogmom and dogdad before she rescued me, and they both look like full-blood chihuahuas, but I definitely don't.

First of all, my ears are not all the way pointy - they still fold over at the tips.
Second, my body is long and my legs and body look more proportionally like some sort of terrier than a chihuahua.
My snout is also long and I definitely don't have an applehead or any other sort of typical chihuahua head.
My tail is very short - even when Mommy took me to the vet, they asked if my tail had been partially docked since they'd never seen a chihuahua with such a short tail. My breeder assured Mommy that my tail hadn't been docked, and sure enough I don't have a scar so the vet concluded that my tail is naturally short.
Lastly, Mommy says my personality is not typical of most chihuahuas. I'm very outgoing and not afraid of anything. While this might be because Mommy did a good job of socializing me, she thinks a lot of my behavior is very terrier-like.

Mommy has two theories as to how I came to be.

One is that my dogdad was not actually my dogdad and instead my dogmom was impregnated by another male dog that wasn't a chihuahua.

Her other theory is that my dogdad wasn't pure chihuahua. Although he looked like one, he was on the large side... so maybe he had some other sort of blood in him and when I was born I just happened to get some of the recessive genes.

Either way, Mommy says she loves me just the way I am. At this point she's started calling me a Chihuahua-Mix, and is pretty sure I've got Jack Russel or some other sort of terrier in me somewhere.

I'm in the doghouse...

I got in trouble today. :(

Mommy let us out to play, and I was having a great time running in the backyard with Wrangler and Riley. Well it's cold outside, so Mommy had to take Lulu back inside once she'd finished going potty (Lulu can't stand the cold weather). While Mommy was inside I darted out of the fence again.

I've done this before, and Mommy's been meaning to plug up the hole with some rocks but she ran out of rocks plugging up all of Riley's holes. She was planning on going to a rock shop when she gets the Jeep back from getting worked on and buying some rocks to plug up the rest of the holes. She wasn't in too much of a hurry cause lately I've been good and stayed in our yard, plus Mommy is usually always outside with us to supervise. But anyway, the hole is still there, and Mommy went inside for just a minute, and I got out again. Normally I just run around in the neighbor-behind-us yard real quick and then come back. But today I ran out of that yard too and went for a romp around the block.

Mommy came back and apparently Wrangler let her know I was gone. (Wrangler always tattles on me by standing next to my hole and barking.) Mommy freaked out and started screaming for me cause she couldn't see me anywhere. I took my time a bit but came running back and slipped back through the hole. Mommy was glad to see me but was also very angry and upset at me.

She told me I can't go outside to play by myself ever again. :( I'm sorry I made you worry Mommy. :(

Grr

That stupid neighbor dog is ruining my outside playtime!

You see, the neighbors leave their dogs outside 24/7. One of them is an akita, one is a boston terrier, one is a miniature schnauzer (mix?), and we're not sure what the other one is. Well anyway, the schnauzer-looking one got out of its yard again. It's in the yard that is directly behind its yard. Well, that yard is partially next to our yard (cause our yard is longer than the neighbors' yard). So that dog is sitting there barking at me and my sisters while we play in our yard. So far it hasn't come into our yard, but Mommy knows it can because it's been in our yard before. Mommy doesn't want to leave us outside to play with that dog back there threatening us and making like it's gonna come in our yard to fight.

Mommy would try to return the dog to its yard, but it's not a nice dog. And of course the neighbors aren't home to come get it themselves. *eyeroll* When it was in our yard the one time, Mommy went to get it to put it back and when she tried to pick it up, it bit her. Then when she went to walk back into the house it kept barking at her and chasing her ankles to bite. Mommy said "Forget that" and let it find its own way home.

The nerve of that dog to bark at us and our Mommy in OUR yard!

My turn for an overdue update!

Gosh, I haven't updated this in forever! Sorry everyone!

Ok, so I'm 10 months old now! Woohoo, almost one year! I've gotten SO big. Now I'm definitely ginormous for a Chihuahua! BOL!

Well, let's see, where to begin. Hm. Well the holidays were great. Mommy spoiled us rotten. I mean, she spoils me rotten all year round with toys, treats, and CLOTHES! But the holidays are a special type of spoiling.

The weather here has gotten COLD! So I'm very glad to have sweaters to wear when I go outside. But then sometimes the weather will warm up like it's fall again for a few days. How weird. Oh well, I like it when it's warmer.

I still get to go lots of places with Mommy. I'm really good about riding in the car now with my car-harness on. I don't try to crawl into Mommy's lap anymore, so she's happy with me about that. Maybe one of these days she'll get me a booster seat so I can see out the window.

Oh, I have some BIG news! Mommy entered me in a fashion show at the Petco in Little Rock... and I won BEST IN SHOW! It was awesome! Even if I hadn't have won, it was still lots of fun. I got to strut down a runway in one of my favorite sweaters and my pink Doggles. Everyone ranted and raved about how cute I was in those sunglasses. And I really knew how to work the runway (unlike some of my competition!), and I even posed for the judges and I know they ate that right up. Bubbi came and watched me too, and Aunt Mimi was there cause she was helping with the show (she works at Petco, but had nothing to do with me winning, promise). And then I got to see Aunt Laura too! It was the best day ever!

And I guess it's also pretty big news that I have a new sister, Lulu. She's a Chihuahua too, but she's TINY. She's about half my size! But she's a lot older than me. How strange is that? Oh well. She's so small though that all my old clothes I grew out of fit her. So I guess that's pretty convenient for Mommy. I'd be jealous, except Mommy has already bought me new clothes that fit. ;) It's actually pretty cool, now Lulu and I have a bunch of matching outfits! Anyway, I like her pretty well, except I don't think she likes me as much. She's nicer to me now than when she first came home. But she doesn't want to play with me. :( Maybe she will when she is feeling better. I hope so anyway.

Anyway, I hope all my friends out there are doing well! I'll update this thing more often from now on, promise!