A Family Pet

My family's dog might as well be considered a human member of the family. Louis is a teacup poodle whose personality is anything but teacup size. He is the color of an apricot with curly, wiry hair. He has a slight potbelly from my mom over-feeding him "people food" on a daily basis. One of the funniest things about Louis is that he has very picky taste when it comes to "people food," and he wont dare touch his dog food anymore. One of his favorite foods is cheese-- he will eat any kind of cheese. Often, my mom will put a little pile of shredded cheese on a plate for him and set it on the floor. Louis is basically my mom's second child. 

One of my favorite memories with Louis so far occurred in the summer. We have a pool skimmer that roams around our swimming pool cleaning the surfaces. This past summer, I started noticing that Louis was slightly frustrated with the pool skimmer. He would stand at the edge of the pool, growling endlessly at the skimmer. I thought about it and I realized that Louis thought the skimmer was a dog. It has four wheels and a torso-like part (the tube that connects it to the pool even looks like a tail), and it moves around the pool like a dog. Louis fell in the pool several times this summer because he was angrily barking at the "pool doggy." That is just one of the millions of funny memories I will always keep of Louis.