Ginger Morkie Dog - Ginny
by Amanda
(Buffalo, NY)
My Morkie dog Ginny (short for Ginger, her main color) has become my best friend. As a 26-year-old Ph.D. student, I spend a lot of time in my apartment studying and I needed a companion. I also felt it was high time I gave my parents a "grand-doggie."
Ginny is a ever-changing shade of ginger with white on her chest, tummy, and right at the tip of her tail. Sometimes her hair grows in creamier in color, other times it is dark ginger.
Her personality is extremely lovable, at times obstinate, always energetic and very sweet. On "quiet days" in the home office, she is quite content curling up at my feet with a rawhide or laying behind me on my office chair (yes, we both fit!). She has active spurts in which she tears around my apartment from room to room in a blur of color.
She is (note present tense) difficult to house-break. She is nine months old, and has, at this point, 96% success on her piddle-pads (she doesn't go outside). Sometimes she misses, sometimes she goes in bouts were she stubbornly decides she's going to go in front of the pad rather than on it. As soon as she makes a mistake, she seems to know it, walking around with her ears pressed back and tail between her legs.
Ginny has a deformed lower jaw, making it stick out far beyond the "classic underbite" of the Maltese. This doesn't slow down her eating at all, and gives her a cocky, toothy "smile". However, in the future my vet says she may need special food or dental work.
She is smart, having learned "sit", "stay", "come here," and "lay'n'stay" (all one word!) at four months old, and seemed to inherently "know" how to fetch as soon as she was big enough to toddle around with a toy. Other times, she can seem quite dense - one of her favorite games is to submerge her whole muzzle into her water dish and blow bubbles.
As I type this, she is stretched out at my side enjoying the warmth of a quilt and a laptop - hallmarks of a relaxed Saturday afternoon together.
On a whole, my Morkie dog Ginny stole my heart and has been continuing to do so every minute of every day - from waking up in the morning together to playing fetch in the afternoons, to curling up on the sofa to watch a good crime drama (she watches the TV - really!). She's my love.
I know this sounds like I'm bragging about my little Morkie girl - but isn't that what these threads are for? Putting our "sons" and "daughters" in the spotlight? =D
