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MikkiMikki was adopted 4/11/03 from Table Mountain Animal Center, the local animal shelter. She is a 10 lb. Chihuahua mix, about 9 years old as of 2007. Our cat Connie was afraid of dogs so we acquired a cat-sized dog that would be less threatening. Mikki ignores cats so after about a month, Connie got used to her. Connie wouldn't go in the bedroom where Mikki sleeps the first month. Now Connie and Mikki sleep together on the bed (see picture above). Mikki is a very sweet, affectionate dog with us though not friendly with strangers or small kids, like most Chihuahuas. Also like most Chihuahuas, she crawls underneath the covers to sleep, not on top. In fact, she loves us to raise the covers so she can go underneath and plop down in a perfect spot. We don't know why she doesn't suffocate but that doesn't seem to be a hazard for Chihuahuas.
Mikki is very bright and active and went to agility class until she got bored with it. She is a "four on the floor" dog—that is, she would rather walk around like a dog than be carried like a toy. She doesn't even like to be in a backpack when I bicycle unless I run her for several miles first to get her worn out. It is difficult to imagine how she became a stray and ended up at the shelter. We got her from the Table Mountain Animal Center in Golden and encourage anyone looking to adopt a pet to visit their local animal shelter (and not a pet store, which typically get their pets from "puppy mills").
We feed Mikki numerous brands of premade frozen raw food. We give her meat-based rather than grain-based treats, like meat jerkies from the natural pet food store, as well as Active Care Joint Treat Chews, to help prevent arthritis. We give Mikki BioPreparation formula F-2+ to help her fully absorb the nutrients in her food and prevent her from developing the degenerative diseases that plague so many dogs, like cancer. Like many toy dogs, she is prone to bad teeth so we have her teeth cleaned frequently by Cindy Lloyd of Natural Pet, who offers anesthesia-free teeth cleaning.
Cajun & IrisOur latest additions to our household were adopted from the Misha May Foundation. Click here to read their story. MollyMolly is the neighborhood stray cat that we started feeding in November 2000. Too wild to stay indoors, she roams the neighborhood and shows up at our house, usually twice a day, for breakfast and dinner. If the weather is really bad out (snowy), then she will come inside for a while to sleep but she really prefers to live outside.
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