Trailblazing

You'd think that a dog that weighs 3.5 lbs would be terrified to walk and run on the trails that Lizzy and I like to walk on but you'd be wrong.

Chiquita loves our nearby trails and now that the horseflies have abated we took both dogs out last evening for a walk and to get a glimpse of the space station as the sun set and illuminated it hovering, like a slow-moving shooting star, on the darkening sky.

That was the first time, ever, that Chiquita was on the trails (she appears to have been rescued from an animal hoarder who kept her in a kennel) and instead of preferring to be carried she insisted on taking on the trails on her own, doing everything she could to keep up with her adoptive sister, who is much bigger and faster than she is.

Chiquita may be tiny but what she lacks in size she makes up in spirit and it's wonderful to see her, more and more, developing into a self-assured dog who thinks of herself as being bigger than she really is.