Your questions answered.
Category: Abbye... Abbye...
Posted Saturday, August 06, 2005 at 11:37 AM [GMT-6]

Gazette reader, blogger and pledger (thanks!) Denise sends questions in from the Metroplex: "What breed of dog is Abbye and how old is she? And how long have you had her?"

Abbye has authorized me to make the following statement on her behalf:

Abbye is a bit testy, as her traditional Saturday morning ham and eggs were somewhat on the cold side.

But, she's off pouting somewhere now, so I can quickly inform you that she is of, um, indeterminate ethnicity. The vet thinks she's part long-haired dachshund and we think she's part Welsh Corgi. A lot of people mistake her for a pomeranian (which annoys her to no end). We cannot explain her webbed toes and black-spotted tongue, however.

As to age, again, we're not sure; she's a shelter dog and we think she was about a year old when we got her. She weighed just over half of what she does now and was apparently accustomed to eating insects to survive. We've had her for about eight years, and she's doing much better now, thank you.

I just hope she doesn't find out I posted this.