Ay Chihuahua

We have a new family member!!





His name is Pepé. I am far from Ms. Animal Planet but this little guy won us over. I love other people's pets but with the combination of the amount of work an animal requires, having a really keen sense of smell, and keeping a very clean house (yes, I have been told that people felt like they could eat off my floors) a dog didn't exactly fit in to my plan but things change.

About 1.5 years ago my 5 year old E won a goldfish at a carnival and named him Pizza (a logical name for a fish coming from a 5 year old). Recently Pizza had become very sick and E was devastated. After learning more about goldfish I realized that it was probably not the best choice of pet especially learning that the 3 gallon tank we had was not big enough and that one small goldfish should be in a 10 gallon tank. I have no interest in opening a Sea World just to house one little goldfish. I was torn on how to let E deal with this fish being on its way out other than replacing it with another animal. I have posted previously about thinking about getting a cat or other animal but it wasn't until Pizza being sick that we have seriously considered it again.

About a week or so ago I was reading the LaChlienguita blog and noticed cutest picture of her Chilean Salchicha. This dog was so adorable and was the type of dog that E wanted and we even had a perfect name picked out for one "Completo". I started browsing around at Dachshunds but was a little leery about the size of them (it is hard to judge how big they are going to be and I didn't want anything too big that would shed hair all over). S and I were going grocery shopping yesterday and in the same plaza is a small non-chain pet store. We went in and they had 2 Dachshunds but they weren't that cute and were kind of big. We put them back and then sleeping sandwiched in between two other sleeping dogs we saw the cutest little Chihuahua. It was love at first sight...he seemed perfect. The owner of the pet store is the one who owns the mom and dad of Pepé and said that Chihuahuas are either playful or cuddly and this one was cuddly. We could see that right away with the sleeping arrangement he was in.

We surprised E by putting Pepé in a Christmas box under the tree for him to pull the lid off (yes, I have our Christmas tree up already...I love the season). He was so excited! E is really enamored with him.


Sadly yesterday also the day that Pizza died. We noticed shortly after we gave Pepé to E. His final resting place was inside his pineapple house (we had an underwater pineapple house that was a Spongebob aquarium decoration) and E didn't seem to notice since Pizza had been laying around a lot lately. It was cute though because E was talking to his Grandmother who came over to see the dog and was petting Pepé saying with tears in his eyes "Nana, Pizza is not doing so good...he has that disease and the medicine is not working." They talked about putting Pizza into a pond that she has and E decided that would be best for Pizza. So, we told E that Pizza would be dropped off at Nana's house today and he was fine with it. It is cool how things work out perfectly sometimes and it has nothing to do with your planning.

P.S. Does this officially make me Legally Blonde?