Little things

We don't think of ourselves as small. We don't think of ourselves of tiny. We don't think of ourselves as little. We think of ourselves as just the right size, and when we see other dogs that tower over us, we look at them as the freaks of nature, as the gargantuan examples of rampant misbreeding, as the Brobdingnag to our more Gulliver-like size.

To be completely honest, we have no problems with our size, since it allows us free reign over our domain (Izzi was the one who came up with that poem, but Rozi helped by taking a nap as she was thinking about rhymes). If we want to relax on the back of the couch, we just set our feet, push ourselves upward, fighting gravity all the way (in some cases, some of us - ahem - need to take three to twelve momentum moves before we can get create enough energy to leap tall cushions at a single bound) and plop on the chair or the sofa or whatever it is, and then we can just curl up and relax. Let's see one of those gigantors do that (the curling up into a ball part, not the jumping part).

We also can keep really close to the ground, which has more benefits than either of us have time to talk about. By being close to the ground, we find ourselves in the perfect position to gorge ourselves on any food items that end up there, which is - like - the best part of being so low to the ground.

But, there's also a mobility aspect to it, where we can get ourselves so low to the ground that we can fit under furniture. Now, we have to admit that this is something that's more of a "Rozi thing" than it is an "Izzi thing", since Rozi has what can only be described as a limbo mentality. Rozi has spent a lot of time underneath the family room couch, searching for who knows what (there's not much if any food under there, she says, so it's not clear why she likes to investigate that area so often. But, more than that, she has been able to turn our bedroom into a sort of a parkour. She climbs off the bed, then - especially when pursued - runs around the bed and just when it look like she's going to be cornered, flattens herself to become snakelike and slinks underneath the bed through to the other side (and we should mention that despite Rozi's frequent searches, there's no food there either). Of course, by the time she emerges from the other side of the bed, it's easier for her to be captured, but back on the bed, and have the whole thing start over.
This is the outfit that Rozi would like when she limbos

Now, we understand that many of our others in our genus like to climb on the beds of the people that they live with, and we're no exception. But, there are aspects to it that our size allows us to do, while others have to settle for just kind of lying on the bed and sleeping or whatever. We, on the other hand, can do so much more than that. We can (as we do when we get on a sofa) curl up and just relax. Okay, nothing special about that. But, we can also climb to the highest point on the bed (our mama calls it a "pillow") and stay right there so that we can help our mama sleep without disturbing her (do that! bigger puppies). And, we can hide.

Yup, because we are right-sized, we can get underneath blankets or sheets or whatever our mama has on the bed, and we can play "pup tent" at night or "find me" in the day time. We know that's hard to believe, and so - as Benjamin Franklin would have said if YouTube existed in the 1700s - "watch this YouTube clip".

See, that's what happened to us this morning, and we had so much fun! We were both really happy when we finally got out and were oh so happy to start our day out with such a puzzle. We asked that the camera schlepper cut it off where you see, because Rozi was having so much fun sniffing ta that funny  looking soap you could be watching it for hours.

So, these are only some of the reasons that we like being the size that we are. There are many more, but we're a little tired from talking (get it?).

Arf, Yip, Yip, Arf,
Izzi & Rozi

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