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You know how some kids at Christmas are more excited and interested in the box instead of the $300 toy that was actually IN the box? Dogs can be that way too. It doesn’t matter how many stuffed animals, or bones, or toys Mia has, her favorite thing in the world is an empty water bottle. Or any plastic bottle, actually. When I get one out to drink, she immediately perks up. She knows she can’t have it until the label is pulled off, and the plastic around the top is removed, so she’ll watch me drink it until the second the last drop is gone. Then she’ll jump up on my lap and oh-so-politely wait her turn. I try not to give them to her too often, as the sound drives me completely bonkers. But she loves them and will be entertained by them for hours, so I shall suffer in semi-silence.
The past few weekends, I’ve had plans to be out of town. If Mia were a cat, I’d have no problem leaving her home alone Friday until Sunday. However, she’s not a cat, so I need to find Mia-sitters. Most of the time she stays with my parents, but occasionally friends from my office have offered to watch her. Since my office is completely animal friendly (one of my coworkers used to bring her dog in every day for 5 years, until the poor dog passed away), I bring Mia in to work with me, and she hangs out, and then goes home with whoever is taking her. When the office is full, she runs from cube to cube visiting people and hanging out. She’s pretty quiet and only barks at the UPS truck (something about the sound of the engine bothers her ears) and one of our furniture dollies. At the end of the day, when few of her playmates are left, she crashes under my desk and snores.
5 years ago this little cutie pug was born. After 8 weeks in the world with her brothers and sisters, she became mine. She’s bigger, fatter, and more cuddly now than she was then. I love this little dog with every ounce of my being. Happy Belated Birthday Mia!
Mia doesn’t like sitting by herself. She likes to be right up next to you, or right on top of you. I was working on a project on the laptop and she just jumped right up on my back and sat down. No amount of wiggling or talking to her would make her move, so I jumped up, set up the camera, and laid back down. She jumped right on to her spot and posed. It took 20 or so shots to get a really good one, but it was worth it.
Anytime I’m going out of town, Mia goes to stay with my parents. She loves it over there because she gets to play with my parent’s dog, Jezzi, and my sister’s dog, Skeeter. She travels very well, sleeping the entire way just up until we get to the off ramp. Then she jumps up and tries to pace on the front seat in anticipation of getting to their house. This picture was taken as I was sitting at the stop light. Can you see th look on her face? “Mom, I don’t WANNA sit down! We’re almost to the big dog’s house and I need to see them!”
Mia loves cuddling, and she doesn’t really care what you’re doing when she wants to cuddle. The picture on the left is when she was trying to get my attention, as I was working on the laptop. I pet her and rubbed her ears, and then went back to the project I was trying to finish. Since she obviously didn’t want to leave, she decided to take a nap. Under the laptop.
Mia’s favorite place to sleep is on top of a human body part, and she’s not too particular about which human or body part. Most of the time, she sleeps between my knees. Which makes it oh-so-easy for me to move in the middle of the night. When she naps, she likes to be snuggled right up under your skin, so that you can’t possibly breathe without her knowing about it.
I decided instead of doing a Daily Mia section, (and completely ripping ideas off from other bloggers) I’ll do a weekly picture posting of the cutest dog that ever lived.
Mia’s tongue is the object of much love and laughter in this house, and has been from the day we brought her home. It doesn’t quite fit in her mouth, so she often leaves it hanging out. You can judge strictly from the length of her tongue how tired she is. In this particular picture, she’d fallen asleep on the couch with it hanging out and pushed up against a cushion. The result is what you see here; a tongue that curls up awkwardly and just sticks there. It stayed like this for a good 10 minutes after she woke up, until she came to give me kisses. I could hardly stop laughing long enough to take the picture.
 Pig. Dog. See the distinction?
I’ve been thinking about copying Dooce and doing a Daily Mia section of this blog. I have a million pictures of her, and it would be nice to share them with everyone. However, as I look through all the pictures, I notice something. My dog doesn’t do anything. In every picture she’s either sitting and looking cute, or laying down and looking cute. I can never get a picture of her playing with her toys, or running around outside. It’s almost like she’s camera shy. She was chewing on a water bottle last night (her FAVORITE thing to do) and I crept over to my camera to take a shot of her. Almost like she has a 6th sense she dropped the bottle, jumped up on to the couch and put her head down before I could get the lens cap off the camera. I swear she’s an active dog! I just have no pictures to prove it.
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