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August 9, 2007

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Happy, the Dog of the Day
Name: Happy
Age: Three years old
Gender: Female Breed: Maltese
Home: Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
 
   This is a very Happy girl that loves to be out and about with us! Happy is a really fun dog. She is our three-year-old Maltese and my husband's and my first dog. How can you love this little fur baby so much is just unbelievable to us. She loves to be on her back and have her belly rubbed, upside down Happy is what we call it. She just loves to be with us and grows sweeter and sweeter every day. She is a dog that is a true companion.

    She knows plenty of tricks - Sit, Stay, Down, Paw, Other One, Roll Over and the funniest is Sneeze, she will do it on command. She loves to show off for company and do all her tricks and giving her Pupcorn is a sure way to get her to do them all, that is her favorite treat and she will do anything for it. She always has to play with her Monkey in front of company too. She has a love/hate relationship with it we call it. She loves to shake it, play fetch with it and she dominates the monkey by humping it on her squishy pillow which is totally hilarious. We can say "get that monkey" and she will start playing with it and our company just dies laughing at her antics with her monkey. That is the only toy she really likes, we have several of that same monkey on hand as we have to replace it about once a year as it will get "worn out" from all her saliva and playing with it. She also loves rawhides and chewing them especially at night in bed with us, yes, she sleeps with us, always upside down we call it, we can reach down at anytime in the middle of the night and rub the softest thing in the world, the Happy belly.

    Wherever we are she is, whenever we go she wants to go, going for rides is her favorite thing to do. She has her own car seat and loves road trips, we can take her anywhere, anytime she is always by the door under our feet when we leave she doesn't want to be left. She learned what "go" is fast, we have to be really careful if we say that word, she flips out, gets all excited. In fact, she is so smart we have to change what we say often when we know we can't take her with us, it's really funny. She knows what ride means, ready, depart, want to, shall we, let's do it, she just knows they all mean we are leaving and our most current word she hasn't learned quite yet is "today".

    Happy is the best dog ever, well besides her sister, Joy Joy. We got Happy a companion, another dog when she was one year, they are best buddies. You can see much more of our two girls at their website - they are just a little spoiled.

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