If you don’t know me, you will quickly find out how much I love dogs.  My good friend gave me Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover’s Soul and I haven’t been able to finish it because I cry at almost every story!  I think I got through 10 stories and decided I didn’t want to wake up with puffy eyes!

Growing up in an apartment my parents promised my sister and me when we move to a house we’ll get a dog.  I hung to that promise daily hoping for the day I too could have my very own dog!  Flash forward to 5th grade, we moved and soon after my parents found us Shawn a cute Lhasa Apso puppy.  He is now 16, blind, deaf, and walks with great effort, but I still see his puppy spirit hidden behind long naps and frequent trips to the backyard for a potty break.

Over the years we got other dogs.  With each new dog my mom said no more!!!!  But soon she too got attached to them and I frequently see her with one or two of the dogs by her side.  How can we not love a dog that unconditionally loves us.  Every time I step through the doors I’m greeted by a scene of chaos.  Even after I yell at one or all of them for doing something bad, they still quietly sneak up to me and win me over in a matter of seconds.  They follow us around the house and “protect” us from strangers and give us all these cute looks.

Toby is probably the biggest and fattest Yorkie I’ve ever met!

This is what I wake up too in the morning.  How can you NOT fall in love with this face?!