Oh yes I am...

Spoiled Rotten. And I know it too.

Jealous? You should be!

Edit: Does anyone else think Mia looks a bit like The Big Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood in these photos? Why granny, what a big bed you have!

She's all mine!

I'm just sharing a little of my Mami love with you today.

I hope you have a mami that loves you like mine loves me!

I just can't help it

I feel so bad, but lately I've created quite a bit of work for my mami and papi. I don't mean to, but I just can't stop it. My fur is shedding everywhere! Despite the twice daily brushings that my mami gives me nearly everyday, my fur has a mind of it's own. Everywhere I go, I leave a trail.....especially on mami & papi's dark brown comforter. The fun part for me is that they use this really cool rolly thing to clean up all the hair and then let me play with the sticky pages covered in my fur!

It has always been mami's dream to own a little yellow dog like me, but she also really really likes a clean house, so she's gonna fight back! Over the weekend, she ordered this crazy thing called the Furminator DeLuxe.

Here's what it looks like:


And this is what it does. (I think I'm a little bit scared!)

But I'm gonna put on my brave face and with any luck in just a few short weeks (after my friends Brandi & Mike deliver it) this is what I'll look like!

And then me & my mami will both be happy!

Don't Worry

Be Happy!

I am!

Be nice.

Recovery is a piece of cake! Yum! Guess who's back in the game?? Me! It's been 1 week since my surgery and I'm better than ever. Let me tell you how it went.

Mami came to pick me up at the end of the day after my operation. She listened to the vet tech and got my medication and then they brought me out. She says that I walked on my own and acted pretty normal (but maybe just a little mad at her). The vet tech helped lift me into the car and off we went back home. It wasn't until we got home that she saw how loopey I really was. She said I didn't want to get our of the car at all and when I did I wandered around bumping into things and couldn't quite get comfortable for a couple of hours. I had a couple of little pee pee accidents too (that makes me embarrassed because I am Trained - with a capital T). Mami wasn't upset though. She also said that I threw up. Only once, but it wasn't pretty. Mami and papi did their best to help me get comfortable and petted me and loved on me, but I was really pathetic.

Miraculously by the next morning I was almost as good as new. And over the next few day I have made a 125% come back! Mami and papi think that I may have more energy now than I even did before! Aside from this crazy cone that they sometimes make me wear around my neck, I'm a happy 'lil puppy girl.

PS: The cone is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Mami and papi agree. I can't even reach my incision site to lick it without the cone, so what's the point??

Now promise me 1 thing please. Before you look at the following photos and giggle and call me mean names, remember that I'm just a little puppy girl, doing what her mami and papi think is best.

Promise?

Pinky swear?

I mean it...............no giggles.

Yes, that means you too papi!

This is me in the cone.

My head feels like an giant ice cream cone.

Maybe if I give mami my pathetic puppy eyes she'll share a couple licks of her ice cream with me (like she has been known to do)!

Surfs up dawg!

I'm pretty certain that I have gills. Yep, that's right. Gills like a fish. Because just like a fish, I LOVE to swim! If you've been around this blog for a while you definitely remember my first trip to the beach. And then there was the pool. And of course Belize was great for really polishing my skills. But lately I've been confined to the fountains in central park that I illegally take a dip in from time to time.

Well little did I know, but mami and papi were missing the water just as much as I was! So sunday morning we woke up bright and early, packed up Dewey and off we went. I had no idea where we were going, but I was happy to see that some of their friends were coming along too - Yaelle, Quincy, Brandon, Matt, Luisa and their doggies too! We drove for what seemed like forever (really only an hour or two) and when they finally opened the doors guess what I saw!

Yipee Skippy! The ocean!

It was a different ocean than I remember from Belize, but that didn't matter so much to me. There was water!! I took off for the shore, but quickly stopped in my tracks and ran for some shelter. The black sand is really hot - even at 9 o'clock in the morning! After cooling my wittle paws off a bit papi helped me hurry down to the water where we splashed and splashed and chased some sticks around with Mina, Konga & Xela.

After mami and papi slathered themselves in sunblock, we hit the water! They thought I was gonna be scared because of the big waves (like I was my very first time) but I wasn't at all (well maybe just a little bit.....shhh!). I held my head up high, turned my backside to the big waves and blew air out my nose if little water splashed in! Within no time I was fearless, diving into the waves and letting the water carry me away. Oh how I love the ocean! I hope papi changes his mind about Colorado and takes me & mami to a place a little closer to the beach!

Fearless! from Krista on Vimeo.

And when it was all over, I went crazy rolling around in the sand.

And this was me, later that night after my bath & blow dry.
(Mami hates to see me shiver, so sometimes she helps me dry out!)

I sure do love swimming, even if it wipes me out!

Plan B

Poo on you, El Pilar! Mami & papi tried to take me for a nice afternoon in the great outdoors on Saturday but the silly old folks at El Pilar wouldn't let me in. They did before, but today they wouldn't. Mami tried to fight for my cause saying that I am well behaved, always on my leash and that she and papi even have their very own biodegradable poo-poo bags to clean up after me, but the man still said no. He sort of looked like he felt bad, but rules are rules and Guatemalans stick to 'em. So papi said not to worry and we turned around and left.

Leave it to papi to always have a Plan B which turned out to be even better than Plan A!

Plan B was to drive a little further out of Antigua to a place that mami & papi have been talking about trying out for as long as I can remember now - Senderos de Alux. In no time we had arrived and I was off and running! Not only is Senderos de Alux less expensive than El Pilar, it's pet friendly! Plus it has a lot of nice little picnic and play areas that El Pilar doesn't have. And it's trash free, unlike Florencia park. We had so much fun today, I'm already looking forward to another trip to this pet paradise!



I ran wild on the paths through the woods. It was great! Papi says in Colorado there are many many more places like Senderos de Alux and that I'm gonna love it!

We climbed a tree house together....

.....and then papi helped me down.

I discovered sticks.
They're so fun to carry around.

Papi (and mami) took some rides on a really high swing!

And I chilled out with mami.

It was a super great day!

Dooms day is here

Hi folks, I'm here with a bit of a request today. It seems that tomorrow probably won't be a great day for me. I have to go back to visit my nice friends at El Arca Vet's office, but it's for a surgery. Tomorrow I'm getting spayed. Since I'm nearly my 7th month and quite possibly my first heat, my mami and papi decided it is time. They're a little sad too because they know that I'd have really cute and nicely tempered babies one day, but since none of us are in our place right now for that we have decided that me getting spayed is the socially responsible thing to do. This baby will not be having babies. It wouldn't be such a big deal if we were living back in Denver, but here in Guatemala, the street boys are wild. Plus most of my doggie friends are boys too and I wouldn't be able to play with them very often if we didn't do the surgery.

We have talked about it a lot, our little family this weekend. Mami and I are a little scared, but papi has ensured us that it will be fine. I'm going to feel really sleepy and maybe a little sore, but I should be back to my normal self pretty quickly. Dr. Sican said it is probably a good idea if just papi drops me off in the morning. Mami will be too nervous and it might make him nervous. But she can come get me at the end of the day and take me home and love on me. The worst part of it is that I need to wear one of those funny cones on my head for a whole week. Yick! I'm sure that I won't like it, but if I know my mami like I do, she'll make me feel so loved that I might even forget about it most of the time.

Please keep me in your prayers friends. I love you all very much.

XoXo,
Mia

Cruisin' Routine

Remember how I'm a professional traveler? I've been on several trips with the mami and the papi already in my 6 short months of life and I ride in the car almost every day too when papi takes me to work.

Well since I'm an adventure pup, I don't just go along for the ride, I want in on the action too. My papi respects that, so he and I have developed a routine.

I usually start out in the back of Dewey, but then as we climb the hill leaving Antigua, I crawl up front. Papi let's me sit on his lap and catch some air while we drive as long as I don't cause any trouble. (Simmer down you rule followers - this is Guatemala, things are a bit looser here!)

Sometimes I help papi keep an eye on the road.

But most of the time I just take in the sights...

...and count the chicken buses that fly by us.

Oh how I love my papi!

He's so good to me!

Down Dog

I'm a Yogi Dog!

Look at me teaching papi how to do the Down Dog. I'm a natural!

Say Cheese!

Yes, those are my real teeth!


Papi caught me napping on the cool tile floors the other day. I can't help that my cheeks get a little droopy when I lay on my back. Geez papi, don't you know about gravity?