I did say I was going to stop torturing you with chihuahua photos but I love this one so I’ll post it anyway. M took it yesterday while we were all basking in the afternoon sunshine*. Well, the humans were, anyway – the chis were chasing each other and only stopped when I grabbed them and held them still. Here they are standing on the Giant Cushion of Malodorousness. (The Giant Cushion is malodorous because both chis have peed on it, several times. It rests permanently in the back yard, between the door and the Wee-dy Patch. Pun on wee and weeds. Yes, the whole backyard is a chihuahua loo. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.)
The chis look very serious but that’s just a trick of the camera. They are getting along very well, and enjoy rough wrestling at various times of the day. Paco occasionally makes Peppi squeal by nipping her. She gets her own back by getting under him and trying to chomp at whatever she can reach (belly, thigh…).
Peppi is quite fearless and has already mastered the art of jumping onto the couch. She also seems to lack a fear of water and happily sits right up on the step next to the shower to watch the humans wash. Paco looks at her like he can’t figure out whether she is mad or just oblivious to water, whenever she does this. (To date he has never ever attempted to sit on the shower step.)
Peppi also figured out a way to scale Mt. Humans’ Bed. She worked out that by clambering onto Bedside Table Hill and trekking through its Book Forest, she could step gingerly across the relatively empty space from the Hill to reach Mt. Humans’ Bed, to reach the shangri-la of the peak: warm billowing clouds of doona and humans lying prone ready for their faces to be licked. The topography has since been altered by the pesky humans (read: the bedroom furniture has been re-arranged). Paco never attempted this arduous ascent as a puppy, and now that he is a Big Dog, can leap the chasm between floor and Bed in one bound.
*There are some benefits to being home sick on a sunny weekday.
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Out of curiosity, was Paco named after the Chihuahua in Elsewhere?
Hey Andrew, no, Paco wasn’t named after any chihuahua in particular. Being as chihuahuas are Mexican dogs, we wanted a Spanish/Mexican name for him, and settled on Paco.
My mum’s cat used to navigate to the headboard where things were put and then proceed to knock them off one by one until my mum got up to feed him. Classic operant conditioning?
Dogs don’t appear to have the same level of deviousness/manipulativeness as cats. When they want me to wake up they usually ask: the two dogs sit up in their beds and scratch themselves and make little whiny noises. Peppi might jump non-stop next to the bed as well.
If the level of need isn’t as great, they bounce around the room playing with each other until the noise drives me bonkers. “Just amusing ourselves until you get up…”
Sorry to hear you’ve been poorly, CW – it sounded like a bad dose. Great photos! Nothing like the mutts to cheer you up when you’re sick. I really enjoy reading your posts. You can see my boy on Flickr. (Is it netiquette to put links in comments? I won’t now, JIC, but I’ll check with our MF, Sue). We could be pup-pals! SlibrariAnne
ais4anne, sorry for the delay in replying to you! Thanks for the kind words, I am much better now. The mutts definitely helped 🙂 Oh, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with putting links in comments, although if you put excessive numbers of links in many blogs’ spam filters may block your comment…