Anna M. Aquino

Last week while we were in the North, we took our dog Mojo with us.   However when we headed for Canada, for a whole list of reasons, we left our little mini doxie with my parents in Ohio.   My parents love dogs and leaving him with them is a no brainer.   Mojo has fun with them, and I think they enjoy him too. My parents usually have bigger dogs and haven’t had a puppy or a small dog in their house in years (unless you count the week Mojo stayed there in the summer).   My mom totally forgot that she had rat poisoning behind the bed.   It had been sitting there for years.   In her defense what animal other than a rat would seriously fit or go back there.   I would have forgotten about it too (Mojo only weights 12 lbs). Mojo found the rat poisoning.   It was an innocent dog thing that could have easily killed him.    I am so grateful that my mom heard him chewing on it.   I am so grateful that she thought of getting him t...

  I purchased Mojo, our cute longhaired mini doxie dog, two ball toys some time ago but just gave them to him this weekend.   If I do buy him a dog toy and scan down the aisle.   My criteria are: that it can’t have a squeaker to drive me bonkers in the middle of the night, and I look for how it will be torn apart.   It’s because of that I typically make toys for him anymore out of worn out jeans.   Mojo was so beyond excited to get his new toys. He pranced and he played. The balls had come in a two pack and perhaps I should have only given him one at first.   Because his biggest problem was deciding which one he wanted.   He’d take the orange one, and then the blue.   I’d throw one of them and he’d try to fit both of them in his mouth.   I took one in each hand and would give him the one, only to see him change his mind.   He wanted the orange, no the blue, no the orange, no the blue.   This went on and on.   It was...