For no apparent reason..

Since yesterday could be considered a bit of a downer...though I do thank you for your kind thoughts...today I thought I would throw up a picture of the mutt.

I never thought I would like a Chai Who ah Who ah. I really didn't. They are too small, too loud, and let's face it...no matter how otherwise intellectual the owners may be, at some point the poor thing will be victimized by anthropomorphism on often absurd levels.

With that said...Bella is pretty smurfing cool. Oh, sure, she barks more than I like. She growls as if anyone will feel threatened by her pathetic attempts at intimidation...Richard Simmons is scarier. Then again, Simmons did smurf-slap a 23 year old Harley salesman...so maybe he is more intimidating that I thought.

But she is lots of fun. She LOVES to chase a tug rope. We initially bought her a Chihuahua sized one but that did not work so well...she insists on having one so big that bull mastiffs would struggle to get it in their mouth. And she LOVES LOVES LOVES to chase that stupid thing. My arm wears out before she does and there she is, panting, dropping it, nudging it towards me, trying to get me to throw it just 5 or 6 million more times.

She loves her people. And I must admit it is pretty cool to come home and have Bella hopping around so excited she can't keep her feet on the floor.

Just a little bright spot in my day.