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December 13, 2004

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Gus, the Dog of the Day
Name: Gus
Age: Two years old
Gender: Male Breed: Cairn Terrier
Home: Massachusetts, USA
 
   This is Gus, the cairn terrier. He just turned two, and had a big party with his cousin Riley (a Pekingese), including party hats and frosty paws. Yum! Gus's favorite leisure activities include: verbally lashing any delivery vans, such as the paperboy, FedEx guy, mailman, or any large white vehicle, playing ball-ee, cleaning daddy's ears with his tongue, and keeping the yard free of kitties and squirrellies. Another favorite game is 'defending the stairs'. Gus will lay at the top of our staircase, and when you yell, "what are you doing up there," he comes tearing down the stairs, poised to attack.

    Gus loves to go into crazy dog mode. He'll hop onto the couch, flip himself upside down, push off the end like he's swimming, and then start snapping his jaws like an alligator. Or, he'll go "turbo" and start running figure eights around the living room until he collapses on the foyer. Gus loves to dance. He'll stand on his back legs and walk around the room for at least five minutes. He has very good balance.

    Gus works very hard all day sleeping, and when his mom comes home from work, he greets her at the door with a series of loud "Whooors," usually with a ball in his mouth, so it sounds quite funny. Gus is a very spoiled dog... He is fed only the best organic food, snacks on carrots and plums, and gets brushed much more often than he'd like. Gus is even so spoiled that he has his own armchair in our bedroom to sleep in, which he uses when he's not camped out under the bed in the "Gus Cave." Gus really is the greatest little dog in the world. (Just don't tell him he's little... or a dog.)

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