Anna M. Aquino

Mojo our dog and I have struck up a bit of a battle.   I try to buy him a toy here and there, and I think he tries to see how quickly he can destroy it.   So far I have found only one toy he has yet to completely annihilate in under a day.   Yesterday I bought the toy he’s destroying here.   My oldest and I were at Wal-Mart.   The bin of Dog toys advertised a particular brand and how durable and indestructible their brand of dog toys was.   We looked deciding what he possibly couldn’t destroy and settled on one.   Mojo was excited when I brought it home.   He knew he had a new toy.   I think he had it torn to pieces in less than two hours.   I’ve already worded a nicely worded email to the company that if my 13 pound mini dauschaund can destroy their toy in less than two hours than perhaps it’s not as durable as they advertised.   Really Mojo is a good dog; for the most part he only does this to his own toys. Isn’t it irri...

              When my youngest daughter was about 2 years old she was running a high fever and in her sleep began speaking.   She kept tossing and turning saying, “I want a dog.   I want a dog.”   Today about five years later, It has become a family joke.   We always intended on the possibility of getting one, but there were several reasons why we held out.   As I mentioned in my last blog, we had since decided that the time had come, but for some wacky reason we kept facing challenges and challenges about getting the right dog.             Yesterday my family and I drove to Gainesville to meet the breeders of mini dauschunds.   We were supposed to exchange and had numerous texts back and forth, however they didn’t show up.   After everything we’d gone through Dan and I both started to panic.   It was like this must be som...