Doggy Chronicles: Ten Months

Mississippi came home with us 10 months ago. Lately she’s been quite the snuggle bunny. Her favorite thing is to curl up with you on the couch and get her belly rubbed. She will also occasionally smash right up you and cuddle up like a regular old teddy bear. She enjoys sitting on laps, despite how heavy and awkward she is.

cuddle bear

She also spends a lot of time barking at any living creature that walks by the house. The fence in our new house is short and see through, it’s going to be fun trying to get her to stop barking at everyone and everything. I understand the “border” part of border collie, that is, if she really has border collie in her. The DNA test said she was a chihuahua, there has been no end to the enjoyment we get out of that one. I keep threatening to dress her up in cute little pink, sequined outfits. Maybe they were thinking “make a run for the border” when they were testing her DNA. Not that border, sillies! Maybe someday we’ll do another DNA test but the results just make me feel a little silly about trying to find out “what” she is. She’s our special little spoiled princess is what she is.

mississippi makes her cute face

While we eat dinner, she uses the tablecloth to dress up like a little school girl with a scarf wrapped around her head, hoping that will help her get some table scraps. It always works on Tom.

snacks please

She’s always good at the dog park. We drive all the way to Vancouver Washington, nearly every weekend so she can run around the 8.5 acre dog park there. She loves it and she loves to fetch now. We give her a little treat if she brings back the ball and drops it at our feet. Sometimes she brings other dog’s balls to us for a treat. Much better than what she used to do. Her favorite past time at dog parks used to be to run away with other dog’s balls and play keep away with them. She loves to creep when a new dog enters the park. She gets down really low to the ground, sometimes crawls a few feet forward, and when she thinks the new dog least suspects it, she runs full speed towards them. It’s really cute to watch. She’s very sneaky.

We can’t wait until we can show her the new house. She’s going to love it. So many places to investigate. I wonder if she’ll sleep upstairs with us. It’s going to be strange living in such a big house. A year ago we were living in a 600 square foot apartment. The new house is almost 2700 square feet.

We had a brunch at our house and she was very good. She didn’t try to steal any food and was rewarded with lots of bacon. She was very persistent on chasing all the kids with food in their hands, but she’s not a grabber, which I’m very thankful for. She’s still really good at standing on her hind legs to check out what’s on the counter. She knows she has to keep her paws off the counter so she finds other ways to get around it.

mississippi loves the dog park

Mississippi is very good at shaking with both her paws now. And I can get her to spin around three times quickly. She’s good a weaving in and out of my legs and she’ll “come around” us and sit by our side on command. Tom’s been practicing having her sit in one place and stay there as we walk away, until she’s called. She’s pretty good at it most of the time.

We love you Mississippi! You are the best dog ever!


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