My current dog is my best dog ever. Speedy is a toy poodle/pomeranian cross. He is great because he doesn't shed, he is small and goes camping and everywhere else with us, he is HAPPY and smiling ALL the time, he LOVES me and my kids. Speedy is loyal. He thinks he is a big, tough dog. His "job" is to bark at the door when anyone leaves. He is very serious about this, and if ANYONE goes downstairs towards the door, Speedy is up, going over to the top of the stairs and watching so that IF they open the door he can race down and attack the base of the door as it closes. He is quite fierce about it. And then he comes back upstairs wagging and smiling: "I did my job, Mommy!" (It did come in handy when my kids were little and tried to sneak out).
He is 11 years old and still has the zoomies every morning as his whole body wags to greet me and he races up and down the hall.
Here he is with a short cut. When we let it grow long, he looks very much like a Maltese.
"Mom? There is a baby in my bed..."
Happy boy just got a stuffed beaver for his birthday.
