Alice
is very playful and always follows everyone around, she really
loves people and especially the family members, my boyfriend, his mom,
dad and sister, and me.
She does beg for food a lot, whilst staying on her back legs and doing
a begging motion with her front paws (see picture). She usually gets
a lot of food because everyone think she is so cute when she does it,
and this has made her kind of fat for her breed.
My boyfriend's dad used to breed Tibetan Spaniels before, but he stopped a
couple of years ago. Since then they had another Tibetan Spaniel named
Lisa, but she died at the age of almost eighteen in 2009, just before I met my
boyfriend. They decided to get another about a half a year later, early in
2010. They know a old couple that breeds Tibbys, so Alice has a pedigree
and everything. Her birth-name is Loretta's fast lady. We tried placing
her in a competition once, because her family members have won many
prizes, but the judges though she was too fat.
She loves to play fetch, but only if she feels like it. If she is not in
the mood of playing she just lies there and gives you a "are you crazy?
I'm not going to chase that"- look. She does know a few tricks, of which I
have taught her myself, since I am the most patient of us humans. she
knows sit, sit up (on her backlegs), hop up (stand on the back legs), lie
down and paw. She does recognize the family members' names and a few other
words like home, kitty, doggie and "is Alice coming with us?" She hates
being left alone, so when she notices that we are on our way without her,
she goes away with her tail between her legs and hides beneath the bed.
She does not like being brushed, but she lets us do it anyway. The long
hair on her ears get easily tangled though. When we wash her, all of her
fur (especially the fur on the ears) gets curly/waffled, and many have
asked if we do this with a curl-iron, but its her natural curls! She hates
having her claws trimmed though, she screams really loud and tries to run away.
We recently found out that she got a disease from a tick bite, and we are
feeding her medicine that she is responding well to. She gets it together
with meat so that she will eat it, but she has discovered that she can eat
the meat and then spit out the medicin again, so it takes a while to get
her to eat it. Silly Alice, it is to make you feel better!
She brings a lot of joy to everyone all around and I think that she is
worthy to be honored!
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