Hamhocking

Small dogs frequently get disparaged as "ankle-biters." Couldn't be more unfair!!! Obviously small dogs need to be able to assert their rights and protect themselves.

Just look at the size difference between me and my big sister, Leny:

I'm barely as big as her head!!!!!! But I need my space and my turn, hence, ham-hocking. I don't bite ankles. If I did that to my Dad or Mom they'd launch me across the room. And dogs don't exactly have well-defined ankles. Neither do cats. So it's ham-hocking!!!! That's the top of the leg, like where I'm going after Weetzie in this picture:

It works and it gets the attention of whomsoever gets ham-hocked. How else can a chihuahua get the attention of a huge sharprador??? Or a perverse siamese??? So that's ham-hocking in a nutshell, or should that be a pecan shell since that's the orchard here.............

biography

I am Bertequila, proud chihuahua and blogger. The name of this blog is the result of my dad's penchant for word play. I usually wear a shirt because of skin issues so I get called "shirt-bert" which is easily morphed into "sherbet", hence, ice cream. Of course, "Bert" can be short for "Bertrand", and since I have some rat terrier genes mixed in, close to Jack Russell terrier; ergo, Bertrand Russell, the philosopher..............Hence the blog name "Ice-Cream Philosopher."

I hope to post insights and sayings as frequently as I can----being a chihuahua the cranial capacity may be a little limited compared to homo sapiens but, whatever.