Saturday, August 04, 2007

MYX

At Dennis' birthday celebration last year (September 2006), one of our friends, Omar, gave Dennis a dog. As per Omar, the female canine - a mixed breed of Pekingnese and Tibetan-Spaniel, was already six months old at that time. We called her by many names but we eventually settled on Myx.

All through most of the night, Omar just kept holding the copper-colored dog on his lap and the dog stayed put. She didn't bark; she was just content to sit on Omar's lap and to seemingly enjoy the company of people specially the little kids who would come by and stroke her. Later on in the night, she started moving around and yelping and running around with the kids.

I searched the Internet for more information on Tibetan Spaniels and I found out that just as Myx is, Tibetan Spaniels are vigil dogs - they bark and bark whenever someone new comes into the villa but won't bite. They yelp and jump at you when you come home from work and they want to be cuddled (Myx would jump into the bed with me or with Dennis and would expose her belly to be scratched and won't budge until you do it to her). Tibetan Spaniels are very playful and are said to be good for kids. Kids can rough-and-tumble it with Tibetan Spaniels without worrying the kids will get bitten. Currently, however, her fave playmate is Grey, our small white kitten (one of Pheiffer's offsprings) called as such because of the streak of grey on her head.

Myx also likes to be bathed although frankly, she does not get as much bath as she can from us. He he. She eats dog food sometimes but does not mind sharing cat food.

Next month, it's going to be September again and Myx would be 18 months old by then.

Here she is then at 17 months old in her first-ever photographs, courtesty of Charmed One. They're not her best shots; she seemed raring to jump at the pool all through the night of Charmed One's visit to Riyadh last August 2.

This post is specially for Dominique and her siblings Renzo and Chinchin who I promised ages ago, will at least get photos of Myx.