Love at first sight
Saturday, August 05, 2006
Meet our new baby girl... Misty.
Yup it was love at first sight alright, ever since I spotted her at the pet store and cooed "so cute! So cute!" Of course my sister, with her mighty persuading power and constant whining, managed to cajole my father into getting her a new "toy".
Even though she's already four months old, she's still a tiny little thing. Yet don’t you think you can bully her because this feisty smart girl knows just what to do when you're about to smack her for biting your fingers or for peeing all over the floor: cower in fear and give you that poor dear puppy look that says "I’m innocent" all over her usually mischievous face. (see the first photo of her face) Occasionally she will whine and try to cry her way out of the spanking, so the disciplining is obviously not for the softhearted.
Of course at the end of it all, you realize she is a baby girl and babies get to be forgiven quite easily, especially if she loves her teddy bear and rubber duckie so much. Yes she has a brown teddy bear which she both hugs and bites (which approximately translates to "play with" in her vocabulary) and a yellow rubber duckie which she both bites and uses her paws to squeeze the poor fella to get a high squeaky sound that she apparently seems to be very much attracted to. We got her teddy bear from the pet shop that we bought her from, so she won't feel so lonely when she came home. Needless to say, like all babies, this teddy bear had her musty smell all over it, so she probably likes it more than any of her toys. As for her rubber duckie, don't be surprised but I bought it together with a small pink baby pillow off the baby section of a supermarket, courtesy of Aless's recommendation for her own schnauzer.
Some things she does:
- Peer inquisitively into the camera when you try to take a photo of her. That of course applies for the more traditional sort of camera where the lens is protruding. (see photo no. 2) Daniel, that's your camera by the way. Don't worry, we prevented her from gnawing at it.
- Cock her head to one side whenever she sees someone she recognises or hears her name being called.
- Lay her head on her pillow or her teddy bear (basically anything soft) when she sleeps. In addition, she likes to lie on her back and sometimes on her side. (see photo no. 3, where I caught her just as she woke up and was stretching herself.)
- Do the rubber duckie dance. Don't know what that is? I'll explain. The first step involves clutching the rubber duck with her teeth. Next, she gnaws at it furiously as if she were angry with it. (see the last photo) Lastly she holds it in her mouth and goes galloping off (usually in circles) around the room where she is enclosed for the moment to toilet-train her.
- Yes, you read that right, she gallops. In fact, she does anything but walk nicely like a usual dog does. She normally runs around like she was in a big hurry and jumps at us tirelessly.
6:08 pm
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