Puppy!!

[~*~Celes~*~]

One is half Chihuahua, half Rat Terrier. She's my cat's lover.

The other is German Shepherd/Collie/Chow. She's 15, grumpy, and a total bully to Cat (pretty sure that's obvious who that is) and Emmy (the other dog).

I shouldn't be surprised, really, because the animals reflect on their owner's personalities:

Cat (my cat) LOVES sleep and being petted/scratched, can also be quite talkative. Even though he's friendly to everyone and never attacks anyone, he mostly sticks with me, most likely because I took care of him when he was really sick for a little over a week, and I don't pick on him like everyone else does...Even if I do, he forgives instantly, whereas with my mom, he's always on guard around her. He's very loyal to me...If I'm home alone for the weekend, he'll bring me mice, will even bring one for my big brother if he's home too. But not for anyone else. He seems to have OCD because he will just sit there and clean himself for an hour or so, and same with my mom's dog. He's very much like me.

Emmy (my mom's dog) is very friendly and outgoing, albeit very clingy and needy. She seems to have a case of Doggy asthma, as she will get VERY excited and start wheezing/coughing sometimes. She loves EVERYONE in the family, and is very protective of all of us. She will willingly curl up against anyone in bed and sleep with them, and when someone comes in the house from being somewhere, Emmy is the first to greet them, tail wagging millions of miles/minute, yapping happily and baring her teeth in the dog's equivelant of a smile, jumping so that her front paws scrape your leg as she yaps. However, she is most loyal to my mom, of course, and will sit on the top of the stairs, waiting patiently for mom to come home. If she's not home quick enough by Emmy's standards, she will lay down and whine, looking every bit the sad, lonely puppy. She loves to bite Cat's flees as he cleans her, and loves to "sunbathe" (she'll lay in sunpatches on the floor, sometimes rolling onto her back and exposing her stomach) and take naps in the sunlight. Very much like my mom.

Brandy (my dad's dog) is the oldest of the bunch, and while she used to be friendly, loveable, and loyal, she is now grumpy and bossy towards Emmy and Cat in her old age. She's quick to snap if they walk past her, and will watch Cat go to the water dish and start drinking, and then get up herself from where she's laying just to growl at him until he moves out of the way, then she sticks herself in front of the bowl and licks it dry (most likely because of her old age, her kidneys don't work as well, so she has to drink more). She has various health problems, sadly...Arthritis everywhere, cataracts on her eyes, an eye infection that has been there for a while, had a benign tumor removed from her ear but now it has had an infection for quite some time that my dad refuses to treat because it won't ever actually go away, which has rendered her mostly deaf, and seems to be having kidney problems. I don't think she'll last much longer, sadly...We got her when she was just a couple of weeks old and I was only 3. The grumpy-and-getting-worse-as-she-gets-older thing is very much like my dad.