My Best Friend, My Pug

Queen Sarah Rala was the name she was given by her breeder, reflecting her parentage. We did not want to call her Queenie and the family I got her from said they had called her Sarah. We continued the name because she was already almost a year old, and we felt the transition would be easier on her. She would be learning a new environment and way of life, she shouldn't have to learn a new name too.

Once we had her in our home, she only woke up to eat and go out to potty, for two whole days. But she wasn't so exhausted that she didn't know where her rightful place was in my bedroom...of course, right on the foot of my bed! She jumped up, promptly made her spot and began to snore. It took me a while to get used to the sound, but now after almost 11 years of hearing it, I can hardly sleep without it and her warm little presence at my feet.

She soon fell into my routine, learned not to get tied up in my oxygen line, and would stay right with me no matter where I went in the house. Going to the bathroom alone was a thing of the past! After a time, I noticed she had this habit of laying on my 50-foot oxygen line that runs from my concentrator to me. As soon as I would get up to move, she immediately felt the tug and was up with me like a shot. "Aha!" she seemed to be saying, "you're not getting away from me, I know a good thing when I fall into it."

But she does have her fickle moments, when visitors come, she pays concentrated attention to winning them over, and totally ignores me until she's satisfied that they know she's lovable, and the center of attention. Then she'll return and lay at my feet once more. Sarah is such a little character, and brings so much laughter to my days.

I throw a toy, Sarah runs and gets it, brings it back. This works a couple times, until she's had enough, then she just lays down and chews the toy, letting you know she's quitting. She has little "hidey-holes" in corners of the house that she will go to sometimes, and then I can't find her. She will pretend (or maybe not!) that she can't hear me calling her, but if I have food in my hand, she magically appears. She's a little clown!

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