Reply #35: This is my dog:

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Mimsy. We got her several years ago after we had just put our black lab to sleep (he'd had a couple strokes and was in bad shape) and were still hurting pretty bad. We had made up our minds that we were NOT getting another dog. Then, a lady I know in my town asked if I wanted her dog. At first I said no, but the lady said " You just might end up with her anyway...I'm just going to drive her out in the country somewhere and drop her off!" Apparently Mimsy had snapped at one of her children after being picked up by the ears for the umpteenth time. (Go figure). I knew this lady would do just what she said, so I reluctantly took the dog. She fit right into the family and helped heal some very sore hearts.
Mimsy likes to burrow, and eat the boogers out of used Kleenexes. She's also a nervous piddler. If someone knocks on the door she barks like mad then pees all over. Sometimes she does both at the same time. That's as close as she comes to doing actual "tricks"...she also occasionally eats out of the compost pile and vomits in her kennel.
She loves to cuddle and likes to lay her head on your chest and look at you pitifully until you rub her. She gets along great with my kids, and with her playmate, Maisie the bunny.