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April 1, 2008
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Charlie! Baby Shih-Tzu Puppy Pictures, Photos

Charlie! Baby Shih-Tzu Puppy Dog Two Months Old Pictures, Photos

First: I would like to sincerely thank all of you who left me advice about puppy ownership on my first post about Charlie. I read all of the comments — more than once — and I genuinely appreciate the time some of you took to leave me thorough advice about raising and training Charlie. It’s been very useful.

Second: Yes. I am going to be one of those obnoxious people who blogs about their dog. Why? Because this is my blog and I am obsessed with this dog and I’ll blog about him if I see fit. If you don’t like it, skip that post.

In fact, I am rapidly becoming one of those obnoxious dog people in general. Charlie comes everywhere with me. I nearly had to reschedule my annual gynecologist appointment today because they wouldn’t let Charlie in the exam room. The secretary was like, “Um, Ma’am, you can’t take the dog in there with you.” And I was like “Why?” And she was like, “Look, it’s not that he’s not cute — he’s very cute — but we can’t allow dogs in the exam rooms.” And I was like, “Oh, he’s very well-behaved. He’ll be fine.” And she gives me this look that says, “Lady, they’re going to be putting metal objects inside your vagina in that room. Do you really want a fucking dog in there?” But instead she said “You can reschedule if you like.” And I thought about that, but then they won’t renew my birth control prescription and the guy I’m dating will have to wear a condom and his feelings about wearing condoms run somewhere parallel to my feelings about wearing nylons — I’ll do it if there’s a good reason, but I’m going to complain the whole damn time — so I agreed to leave Charlie outside.

They won’t let him in the grocery store, either. Something about health department regulations blah blah blah. The manager was basically like, “If he’s not a seeing-eye dog, he can’t come in.” Which gave me a brilliant idea. Once Charlie learns how to walk on a leash (we’re working on that), I’m going to get a pair of those ridiculous, huge dark eye-glasses that old blind people wear. Like the kind they give you when you get your eyes dilated. Then my little Shih-Tzu and I are going to waltz into the grocery store. And if the manager tries to say anything to me, I’m going to glance frantically around the room, like I’m trying to figure out what direction the voice is coming from, and be like, “Excuse me? I’m sorry, I’m not sure exactly where you are, but I rely on this dog to help me do the grocery shopping. I’ll starve to death if he can’t come in!” And we’ll see what the health department has to say about that.

Anyway.

Here’s more pics of Charlie.

And to celebrate these new photos, I’ve also included here the music video for *NSYNC’s “God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You,” because that’s how I feel about little Charlie.

I am an obnoxious dog owner and I am loving it!

28 CommentsLeave a comment

  • The only thing dogs that small are good for are drop kicking or having American soldiers throw them off cliffs.

    Might as well get a cat.

  • He’s adorable! I have a Lhasa that’s 10 months, and I definitely take her every where too.

  • In one of the pictures, he looks like Marilyn Monroe’s dog Mafia. And squee! he’s black and white! He goes with everything!!

  • Charlie is adorable :) Puppies are way better than kittens.

    I have a Shih-Tzu too, he’s 4 now. Apparently, I babied him too much as a puppy, and now he relies on me almost too much. He won’t even itch his own ear anymore. He’s cute though, so it doesn’t matter.

  • Congrats on the dog,
    none of my business, but since you mention it,
    condoms are not solely for birth control
    they have another important, vital, feature
    prevention of STD
    a guy who won’t
    is a don’t
    for me,that is
    and it’s important to educate young ladies about this
    IMHO

  • ^ on mamba’s note, i don’t think abusing the way blind ppl are forced to live is clever or amusing..

  • Oh Beet I love you and your cute little doggie. And I think everything you say is funny-funny-funny. Every. Single. Thing. So the people who think you’re just mean or wrong can eat it.

  • i was wondering how you were gonna respond about that dog blogging thing. i too like to take my dog everywhere,unless we are fighting of course. he also has a “snooty scarf” that says DOGGY COUTURE , be a proud and obnoxious dog owner, your puppy will never judge you and always love you.

  • the collar is cute and i love his eyes but i bet he ends up in rehab in no time with the company he’s keeping!

  • he looks like he has no eyes in the 1st pic…cutttte.

    hey, my name is streisand_disciple today?? *shrugs* ok then.

  • your cats must not be happy now lol but i loved the part about the food shopping and wearing the glasses lmaoo

  • …. “You can reschedule if you like.” And I thought about that, but then they won’t renew my birth control prescription and the guy I’m dating will have to wear a condom and his feelings about wearing condoms run somewhere parallel to my feelings about wearing nylons — I’ll do it if there’s a good reason, but I’m going to complain the whole damn time ”
    … umm, possibly the greatest analogy EVER! My sides are hurting! :o)
    oh, yeah… cute dog!

  • hey guys..does any1 know whr i can find gud info on cat including insurance and any issues surrounding his health..i jus got 1 …need some help n support :)

  • ^ don’t get insurance. if you pay into for a year and nothing major happens, you’ll lose all that money. i just put away the money i would’ve paid into insurance so that i have it whenever i need it.. =)

  • You joke about taking him everywhere with you – it’s no joke – you took him out in public before he received all of his puppy shots and that made him susceptable to parvo which is why he’s now gone. So sad. If you would have paid attention and listened to the advice that vet tech gave you, you would have saved yourself alot of heartache and money. It’s not necessarily the fault of the place you got him from – which most likely dealt with somekind of puppymill somewhere in Arkansas – but it’s your fault for bringing that poor little guy out with you before he received all of his puppy shots. There is a reason why they do it that way. I hope you learned something from this and if you ever adopt another puppy, you’ll do things different.

  • Uh,her Suz,you’re a douche bag.

    You do not have to keep a puppy in until they have every shot. That is just a stupid thing to say. Did you pat yourself on the back after you said it? Hope that dose of self esteem you got from being such a bitch gets ya through the day.

  • That’s pretty harsh, Suz….

    MambaX: Regarding your “Prevention”:
    Statement:Using a condom eliminates the risk of getting an STD.
    FALSE: Every STD in the world can be transmitted while using a condom correctly and consistently. While the condom may reduce the risk of some, it eliminates the risk of none.
    Consider: 600 million condoms are produced in the US each year. The FDA requires that no more than one condom in 250 can fail a leakage test. So, if you do the math, condom companies are allowed to distribute a total of 2.4 million defective condoms every year.

    Why has the behavioral approach of REDUCING SEXUAL PARNTERS been so much MORE EFFECTIVE than condom distribution? There are a number of reasons.

    One reason is that most people do not use the condom consistently and correctly, even after being given sex education. In one study of over five hundred couples who were repeatedly advised by their clinicians to use condoms, only 8 percent of them used it consistently, despite the fact that they knew one partner had herpes and the other did not! [Anna Wald et al., “Effect of Condoms on Reducing the Transmission of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 from Men to Women,” The Journal of the American Medical Association 285 (27 June 2001): 3103.]

    Some might assume, “Well, at least some protection is better than none.” This would seem to be a logical argument. After all, condom use can reduce the odds of HIV transmission during an act of intercourse. However, one study of over seventeen thousand people in Africa showed that inconsistent condom use was not protective against HIV.
    In the presence of an epidemic, unless a person changes his or her behavior, it may be only a matter of time before he or she is infected.
    For this reason Dr. Norman Hearst said that he feared that we are “raising a generation of young people in Africa that believe that condoms will prevent HIV.”
    While condoms may reduce the risk of HIV transmission, they do not “protect” against AIDS. When people are not taught the difference and are left thinking that risk reduction equals protection, they are more open to take risks that they cannot afford.

    A second reason why the “safe sex” message has failed to curb AIDS is that the “protection” offered by the condom decreases with repeated exposures.
    A study funded by the Centers for Disease Control followed sexually active young women (most of whom had a steady boyfriend) to assess condom effectiveness over time.
    The study found that those who used condoms consistently and correctly were not statistically less likely to acquire at least one STD than the girls who used condoms inconsistently or not at all. According to Dr. J. Thomas Fitch, “This study illustrates what happens over time with numerous acts of sex with an infected partner even when a condom is used.”
    Similar observations have been seen in Africa. Edward Green remarked, “20 years into the pandemic there is no evidence that more condoms leads to less AIDS. . . . Over a lifetime, it is the number of sexual partners [that matter]. Condom levels are found to be non-determining of HIV infection levels.”

    Sorry so long, but it’s bogus teaching that condoms will protect against STD’s and indiscriminate partners.
    Eddy ~~~