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we always enjoy when we get to babysit for our friends' animals... this past weekend we sat for a little rat terrier/chihuahua mix puppy... her name is dakota... she is a happy go lucky dog... very sweet and very cuddly!

the funny thing was we're not used to small dogs... she was basically the same size as prada and of course kolohe was huge compared to her... so it was also funny that the cats were trying to hide from her all weekend... or stared down at her, perched high above for safety... a few times prada got brave and even chased her around the house... i guess she can handle dogs her size more than big dogs...

another thing we weren't used to was having a puppy.... she chewed on everything! she found things i didn't even knew existed and chewed on them! she totally demolished a pencil.... and found some tie straps that she started chomping on... she even tried to chew the "do not remove" tag off of a blanket! and she also chewed apart her harness! while it was on her! i thought she had caught her teeth on it... but no... she was chewing on it! she wasn't quite house trained either but that was ok... we have cats that cough up hair balls... same kind of clean up...

we took her to the dog park and she had a blast out there... she is quite the people person.... she would just go up to people and randomly jump into their laps... it was kind of embarrassing.... good thing most animal owners are friendly and thought it was cute...

oh... i also forgot to mention that she slipped under our fence while in the backyard and ended up in our neighbor's yard... it was sort of a dilemma because it was early in the morning and we didn't want to disturb the neighbors.... luckily they were awake and we went back there to get her...

yes, it was quite a weekend with such a tiny dog! but she was very sweet... it was hard to stay mad at her=o)