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Likes: Daddy, Mommy, sister Ewwa, brother Chester, and the fireplace!
Pet-Peeves: Using her as a pillow, keeping me up when I'm tired!
Favorite Toy: Brother Chester!
Favorite Food: Lemon-pepper salmon
Favorite Walk: RAVINE!!
Best Tricks: Going near her makes her flop down on her back so that you can give her a belly rub
Arrival Story: March 13, 2008: During an uneventful class, I hopped onto my company's classifieds. I clicked on the "Pets" category and the first listing was "Free to a good home, seven black lab mix puppies." The next day, I visited the house with the puppies where I saw a crate of puppies sitting outside the house. There were six dogs left; one had been adopted by the neighbor across the street. Of the six, two slept in the corner, one was digging ah ole, and three were sitting/standing, watching my every move. The owners weren't home so I came back the next Thursday to pick up two new members of my family.
When I came to pick up my two puppies, the owners pointed out the most energetic and playful one of the bunch. She was a little thing that was constantly on the move: sniffing her siblings, instigating fights, and generally running around as much as possible.
Bio: Dana needs love to live on a daily basis. She needs to be kissed, hugged, and loved 24-7. Dana is a bit of a whiner when playing, and is the typical little child playing tag with friends who calls time-out only when she is "it" only to call time-in when she's near somebody else she can easily tag. If you try to scold Dana, she will lovingly flop onto her back so that you can belly rub her instead. It always works; she never gets scolded because she always finds a new way into your heart. She is the slowest eater I've ever met, which results in her aunts and siblings to circle around her and her food like hungry vultures after they've already devoured their's. However Dana will stand up to them if they get too close. When given treats, her beagle mouth is too small to eat the entire treat at once so she takes it into a corner and crunches it up into bits. Of course during this time, her siblings and aunts have already gotten twice as many treats. And of course there is her tail which resembles a very long rope that somebody blew up the end with a firecracker resulting in a mish-mash of hair going in all directions at the end. Even though she's smaller than her brother, Dana is much braver. She ventured into the basement by herself and goes after toys thrown into hidden/partly covered corners of the room.
Forums Motto: The Lovebug
Breed Dynamics: Cropped Ears - American Staffordshire Terrier, Once has a scent, will follow it relentlessly - Basset Hound and Beagle, Tapered Flexible Tail - American Staffordshire Terrier, Needs Constant Affection - Beagle and Labrador, A Natural Retriever - Labrador and American Staffordshire Terrier
Today Ewwa, Chester, and me were hungry so we wanted a snack. So we found Mommy's purse. Sure enough she had candy in there! But they were in these little tan containers with a round top. I don't have opposable thumbs! How am I supposed to get to these things?! That's mean that Mommy would hide candy from her children, especially one as cute as me. So the three of us did our best to chew through the containers and got to the candy. They were yummy! But then when Daddy and Mommy found us, they didn't look too pleased. All they did was rush us to the Doctor who said they had to pump our stomachs. What does that mean? Will it make our tummies bigger so that we can fit more candy in? Nope.... Instead we all started to throw up everything. It wasn't all that nice of a feeling. In fact, we even lost our candy! Why would Mommy and Daddy do that? So that they can have all of the candy to themselves? That's just selfish!
It's my first birfday! That means I can get away with anything I want to because I'm a big girl now! So after this very long and informational year, I would like to share my wiseness to the rest of the youngsters out there:
1. Master "the look." You know, nose down, big watery eyes up, ears cocked back. You can get away with anything.
2. If "the look" doesn't work, flop over onto your back into tummy-rubbing position. You'll get 'em every time.
3. Auntie is a sucker. Super Mommy is an even bigger sucker.
4. You can't eat the laser pointer dot...
5. More expensive the kibble, the stinkier my poopie is.
6. Best way to wake up Daddy: whip 'em with your tail
7. Best place on the bed: under the covers with Ewwa
8. All humans are deaf, so it's up to us to bark, growl, and howl at EVERTHING.
9. Not all dogs are here to eat me. They understand I'm too cute to die.
10. Don't try to redecorate the house yourself...Daddy doesn't like it when carpet is pulled up without his approval.
I think I found heaven. It's a giant white place with trees and ice and snow and demon squirrels and sticks and other puppies. Auntie Leah and Auntie Raisin took Mommy, Daddy, Chester, Ewwa, and me to this ravine. It's huge! And we got to be off the leash! So the moment Daddy let me loose, Chester and I ran off and kept running up and down hills, through creeks, through ice, through snow. It was awesome! Mommy and Daddy couldn't keep up so we always had to run back whenever we were called; why can't they just run like us? There was so much snow there, we had to porpoise through the snow or just ram right through like my blockhead brother did. Every now and then there would be another puppy in my ravine so I would bark and bark and bark so that everybody knew there was an intruder. Daddy said I needed to be quiet, but I know he was just kidding because who else would warn everybody that there's another dog two feet in front of us? The ravine was so much fun, I would pull Daddy really hard to the ravine the next couple of days because I was so excited to get there. Now I have a red rubbing mark on my body from my harness because I pulled so hard. Oh well, now I get a nicer prettier harness now!!
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