Minga's Birthday

Minga turned 1 year old on March 13th. We bought her a new rubber bone and a new collar with matching leash (the pink one was just too big...she didn't grow into it like we thought she would). We wanted to buy her more than one toy but we knew she'd just destroy all the other toys we had to choose from. Petco sent her a birthday card and a $3 off coupon. Craig really got a kick out of that.

We have lots of little lizards on our property and Minga loves trying to catch them. We didn't think she'd ever get one because she had tried many times and failed but she did eventually start catching them. That was sad so we have discouraged her from hunting them ever since because these lizards are really cute and remind me of geckos.

Here she is on the office balcony on February 2nd happily watching a lizard:







And then she jumped on her hind feet to try to reach the lizard that is climbing above the screen door:



Minga on March 2nd resting in the yard after running around like crazy and swimming in the creek:





She loves chewing sticks, of course:



Minga fell out of the Jeep in our neighborhood the day before her birthday and scraped her face up pretty bad. It was bloody like this for a day or two but then cleared up quite nicely and the hair eventually started growing back in (you can still see a bit of hairless skin there to today if you look closely and we are hoping the hair will finish growing in). I wasn't there when it happened but Craig said she jumped right back in the Jeep after it happened. She didn't yelp or cry or even act bothered by the injury. Thank God her eye wasn't injured!



Here she is on her birthday with her new bone: