Mojo and Friends: Mojo's Thanksgiving

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Mojo's Thanksgiving

TURKEY COMA: Mojo ate a little bit too much turkey at Thanksgiving.

Mojo likes people food. Any day of the week he'll happily take some turkey from your sandwich, leftover eggs, a potato chip, a carrot. He'll even beg....and steal if necessary.

Going over to his grandparents' house is a treat because 1) he'll usually eat all of their dog's food as soon as he gets there and 2) he gets LOTS of table scraps.

Of course Thanksgiving is this dog's favorite holiday (besides the dogpark playdate holiday we have for his birthday). He loves the turkey, the ham, the mashed potatoes....really anything you'll feed him. While we were eating Thanksgiving dinner, he was panting loudly, begging for food. Matt gave him plenty of turkey, but it still wasn't enough for this dog. So when we weren't looking.....Mojo found his way over to the table where all the food was set up buffet style. The table was waist high. And I looked up just in time to see Mojo, front paws on the table, licking the carved turkey on the platter. I raced out of my chair and got him off the table before he had time to steal that turkey leg he was eyeing, but not before the entire family turned to see our dog slobbering on their turkey.

At least it was funny. And Mojo got a little extra turkey to take with him for later.

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About Mojo & Friends

The adventures of a hilarious German Shepherd mix,

a sweet tabbico cat, a crazy Manx cat and a lazy fluff ball.

Affectionately known as "the kids," Mojo, Katie, Gunnar and Ozzy live with their mom and dad in an awesome college town in the South.

Mojo is a German Shepherd mix. He's outgoing, wants to meet and LOVE everyone.

As a puppy, Mojo was minutes away from being put to sleep when the folks at Pawtropolis rescued him. He was the sickly runt of the litter with fleas then, but after coming home with us he's grown from 4 pounds to 75 pounds (and back down to 63) and is one of the best dogs ever.

Katie is a sweet, shy cat who loves ham and playing with her shoelace. She also loves to cuddle. She was born the week of her parents wedding in her mom's closet. She was adopted and then abandoned by her then-family. But now she's a happy girl whose learned to purr. She was our first pet.

Gunnar is the newest addition to the gang. Born in the doghouse at my sister's, Gunnar was adopted shortly after melting our hearts after we visited. He and Mojo and the bestest of friends. Every night they play and groom each other. He's a Manx-mix. True to the breed, he's a round, roly-poly cat, who is super high energy and just a little crazy.

Ozzy is our newest addition. He chose us. Literally. He camped out on our porch and told us he was living with us. He tried to come in repeatedly. He resorted to kissing Mojo when we took him outside. And Mojo asked us why the kitty couldn't come inside. After a month of this, we took him to the vet and he was ours. He's since tripled in size and he's gone from short hair to luxuriously long haired. He loves to sleep and eat and will occasionally flop down in a lap for a cuddle.