Minnie!!

Today is the birthday of my new baby girl, Minnie. She is 4 years old today, and she is my little special girl! I just got her and I love her so much! I got her from a breeder, he didn't show, but he bred to produce good quality pets. Which I personally feel is the best reason in the World to breed as that is the reason most people buy a dog is just for a pet. I have no idea how many puppies she has had over the past years, but she has done her work and is now ready to retire and just be my lap top companion. She is putting on weight now, she was skinny when I got her. I was watching a beauty pageant last night (actually it was a part of a series that had an episode about entering someone in a beauty pageant), and I remembered how some people feel about beauty pageants, and I said that is the same reason why I don't think it's so important to show dogs. Breed good quality and good tempered dogs if you want to (in fact I'd encourage it), but don't foist your beliefs on me that you have to show in order to be considered a good breeder! I say as long as the breeding dogs are not mass-produced, in dirty kennels, running and lying around in their own excrement, and are allowed to lie on the sofa and cuddle with their owners, then the breeder is OK by me! And the breeder is producing beautiful dogs. They've studied the AKC standard, and know it well and breed to follow that, they don't need a judge in a dog show telling them what dog is good and what dog is bad. I've seen perfectly good dogs get turned down by judges in dog shows. It's just too political if you ask me. Like someone saying what person is ugly and what person isn't. Really, who's to say? I know a lot of show breeders will disagree with me, but that's OK. But I think as long as a breeder knows the standard, and has been to as many shows as I have, and studied the breed, whether they show or not, and has bred dogs with good temperaments, then they are real good breeders. And I believe that Minnie's former owner was that way.

In the case of chihuahuas, as long as the breeder isn't breeding for Taco Bell lookalikes, they are good. I actually had a chance to study the papillon's breed standard for AKC, and Minnie comes pretty close. The only thing she doesn't have is the long hair, and she is starting to develop that now that she lives here. She also doesn't have the tight-curling tail of the show-quality paps. But that's OK now. She's just my pet and that's all she is now. No breeding involved with her at all. Not with me. She is slowly getting used to home life. I think the former owner's constant moving to and from Arizona took a toll on Minnie. And that is why she was not used to home life. We're still working on her house training.

Well, it is Minnie's birthday today, and I want to wish her a good one. I've been swamped this month with birthdays!! First Jon's, then Tim's, now Minnie's. Tomorrow is my sis Eva's birthday, and the 28th is my ma's. I sure do love it when August comes around!! LOL!

Well, not all the news on this front is good. Right now, I am having to make a very tough decision, probably the toughest decision of my life. I may have to leave Ocean Shores! It really SUCKS!!! I don't want to leave here! This is the best place I've ever moved to, I love it here. But I may have to leave. Hopefully it will only be for a few years. My hands are tied in such a way I may have to go, whether I want to or not. Heck, my hands are not only tied, they are twisted and tied behind my back. I feel like life has a bayonet in my back and is telling me to GO!!! I have no choice. But if Anna is moving to Bozeman and establishing residency, and my ma and stepfather are moving back to Olympia, I cannot stay here by myself for the next 4 years, so I may have to move with Anna to Bozeman. There is this family that keeps coming back here to their property across the road from me and they have 3 kids! To me, that's bad news! When we first moved here, they only came once a year, now I see them here every weekend and I hate it!! Their kids are noisy (as all kids are). It used to be quiet here, now it's loud! That was one of the reasons I loved it here so much. But if they are moving in, I am definitely moving out. Well, I can always come back here 4 years from now, and find a quieter neighborhood. Maybe one right on the ocean next time!

Well, one thing about living in MT, they are much more animal friendly there. So I heard. But the sad thing is I may either have to travel 500+ miles to see INXS concerts, or forget about them altogether. I don't really want to do either! I love going to concerts. I don't always care to see other fans, now that they are forming cliques I don't trust anyone, but I still love seeing Timmy!! I wonder though if we are allowed to carry pepper spray to concerts. I may need it!! Aw heck that may not work with people like Catsredrum and her friends, they probably carry guns!! LOL!