I’m assigning myself a little project for the upcoming 2010 year!
Project Objective: post a blog once a week! This will add up to 52 blogs in the 2010, doable, right? I’m actually going to start a little early and give myself a head start today 
With Blog # 0 I wanted to celebrate the little furry people in my life, so here I present to you Altai and Gina!
Altai, aka Altai-Maltai is my parents’ dog, but I’m not afraid to say that he loves me the most! Although given the choice he always go with mama 
This guy is a little ray of sunshine, I kid you not when I say that 95% of strangers walking by smile when they see him. He’s just so funny…looking!! And 99% of people that wonder what breed he is ask if he’s a ‘mini sheep dog.’ He may look like a mini sheep dog, and the breeders say he’s a Shih Tzu/Poodle/Cocker Spaniel, we like to think that he’s a Tibetan Terrier!! Although a city dog, he was born for the mountains. This little guy loves to hike, swim, play in the snow, and do everything a city dog won’t do.
Altai is a big teddy bear that will shower you with kisses if you let him! He wouldn’t hurt a fly, although he will run after birds (but he’ll never catch one cause he’s slow :p), and he had a thing for kids when he was younger, but he’s learned that he ain’t allowed to tackle them unless the kids tackle him first!
Altai turned 2 years old on December 20th. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! That makes him 14 in human years, and here I finally present to you a photo of our smiling teenage boy! (He also graced our blog earlier, check out his photo here)
Now, the title of the blog doesn’t just say “Altai-Maltai,” it has Gina-Mashina in it too! Gina is Altai’s bestest buddy. She’s the neighbours’ dog, and she comes out for walks with us all the time. Gina is a very shy little girl, she only plays with Altai, and avoids most other dogs, she’s also scared of anything that moves (Altai, on the other hand, plays with anything that moves, just the other day he ran a racoon up the tree, I was scared to death of what could have happened if the racoon decided to retaliate!) Gina is also a strange mix of breeds, she’s got the grace and the curls from a poodle, and she’s got the mean snarl from a schnauzer, you don’t want to mess with this dog when she’s not in a good mood. But she’s pretty mellow most of the time and you hardly even notice her in the dark, cause she blends in with the ground. Gina is an awesome friend for Altai, she sure does keep him and us entertained! Gina’s got this stylish red coat, and it provides hours of entertainment for Altai who keeps trying to take it off, and he has succeeded a number of times already! Oh teenage boys!! Taking clothes off girls!!
So here she is, Gina!
Stay posted for next week’s blog post #1! And feel free to leave comments bellow, perhaps suggest a topic you’d like for me to cover in the upcoming posts.
~Lena
