My baby Quita was a Chocolate Chihuahua. She was a friendly dog, and my vet said her personality was unusually trustful for a chihuahua. She and I were very close, and life with her was magical. She was only six and a half pounds, but she walked like a big dog. People used to say, "Look at that dog, she acts like she's big." I had taken her to the beach at night many times, and she would run kicking up puffs of sand behind her as she chased the herons off the beach. She loved people and never bit. She was intelligent and obedient and a wonderful traveling companion. Twice I took her on eleven hundred mile trips in the car, and she stayed on my lap the entire time. She was the twinkle in my life. My little fuzzy kid, and I miss her terribly. When she was six months old, After she had a surgery and was feeling too painful to do our regular walk, I picked her up from her pillows and carried her in my arms down all our favorite walking sidewalks. Then I carefully placed her down on the ground at one of her favorite phone poles she used to relieve herself on. She relieved herself, and when she was finished I picked her up and carried her to the next favorite pole, tree, and fire hydran, and placed her down so she could use it. I carried her the whole length of our walk doing this. Because I loved her and still do. I bought her a life jacket and she went boating with me and we even got into the Gulf of Mexico to float. She greeted me like dogs do, with enthusiasm. But when she got sick it was hard for her to do that without coughing. I thought with the medicine that she might live for another five years, but it was only four months that she continued to live. Now I carry her leash with me in the car because she loved rides and I am in pain without her. I smell the couch where she laid to get her scent because I miss her. I love you Quita baby, and my hope is that you are in a better world, running with the pack through cool fields of grasses, no danger, eating good food, and getting love and affection from good people. I'm grateful for the love I recieved from you for fourteen years, and I'll always love you and I hope to God I will see you again.