Hiya, I’m Savanna! Read my introduction to be taught additional about me and my spunky Chihuahua mix, Penny.
I get some suggestions from household and mates about how “fat” Penny is. Okay, I’ll admit, she is also a little overweight for her small physique. Nevertheless I’m going to get just a bit defensive proper right here. She weighs 12 kilos, and I really feel collectively together with her being primarily a Chihuahua, of us suppose she have to be smaller and solely weigh about 7 kilos most. Nevertheless she’s moreover half Miniature Poodle and Pekingese consistent with her DNA verify, and these are every breeds which will weigh 14–15 kilos on frequent. Her vet says she’s healthful, and he or she’s been about 12 kilos for just a few years now, so it’s not like she’s persevering with to comprehend weight.
You’ll have heard the saying, “I’m not fat, I’m fluffy.” I’ve to say for Penny, that saying is true. I really feel part of what makes her look so fat is her thick hair. And I can present it: all I’ve to do is give her a bathe. Be part of me as we check out Penny’s magical weight discount transformation every time she is going to get a bathe.
Penny’s Not Fat, and I Can Present It!
Bathtub time is actually not on the list of Penny’s favorite activities, nonetheless all that fluff and rolling spherical in lifeless worms makes her pretty smelly. So she is going to get frequent baths every 4–6 weeks. We’ve to chase her a bit to get her into the bath, nonetheless as quickly as she’s in there, she stands nonetheless and permits us to do our issue (whereas nonetheless attempting just a bit cautious inside the course of).
When she is going to get soaking moist from the sprayer, she turns from an overweight ball of fluff to a slick, streamlined weasel-looking creature. All that water pushes her hair nearer to the pores and pores and skin and makes her look additional her true dimension when not hidden by all that fluff. It’s very trimming for her decide. Who knew that together with water weight would possibly actually make you slimmer?
I suggested y’all she isn’t as fat as she seems! It’s principally merely fluff.
Bringing the Fluff Once more
The bathtub isn’t merely to get her clear. It’s moreover to revive her fluffiness. So evidently Penny’s weight discount transformation is simply non everlasting. Immediately after a bathe when she’s been towel dried and does that cute little shimmy and shake, she actually seems bigger than she did sooner than because of all that fluff is enhanced.
It’s possible you’ll undoubtedly start to see the Pekingese in her when she’s current off a bathe in all her fluffy glory. She seems like just a bit poof ball, and pictures merely don’t do it justice of how poofy she actually is!
She’s Not Fat, She’s Fluffy
No matter attempting a bit chunky, Penny will get spherical merely excellent, she is going to get a great deal of prepare, and he or she eats the right food portions. Every 4–6 weeks, she undergoes a brief lived weight discount transformation, so that you’ll be capable of see that she’s not as fat as she seems. It’s my job to keep up her glad and healthful, so until Penny’s vet tells me she’s overweight and unhealthy and we now have to make some modifications, I’ll further emphasize that she’s not fat, she’s merely fluffy! That’s a hill I’m eager to die on.
This textual content is a part of Savanna and Penny’s sequence.