Licking faces is what it's all about for Benny!
"I'm a three pound Chihuahua, but I think I'm an 80 pound pit bull."

Introduction: Hi, I'm Benny, a 4-year-old Chihuahua living in Coral Springs, Florida, with my human mom, Dalia Teitelbaum. We met in Miami when I was 6-months-old and mommy said I only weighed 1 1/2 pounds and had
ears the size of satellite dishes! But that's a good thing, right?

My Likes & Dislikes: I bark at strangers if they get too close, and the one thing that wires me up is when someone goes running past me. I just start chasing after them, not really paying attention to anything else.

I love to play! Mommy says I have more stuffed animal toys than all of Toys R Us combined. She also says I am so smart! I have a basket of about 50 different stuffed animal-like toys which I take to mommy, one by one.
I figure if she won't play with the last toy I took her, I'll see if she will like another one.

My mommy says I am very photogenic. Do you think so too?

From Mommy:

When Benny is really excited, especially when I come home from work, he starts running in circle like a little maniac. He picks up so much speed, I sometimes wonder how he doesn't trip over his own feet!

He loves his cookies - he usually gets some kind of snack once a day, and he won't ever eat it right away. He might even store it somewhere and surprise me with it several hours later.

At night, he has to sleep under the covers, and in the morning I wake up to find him laying on his side, with all four legs completely stretched outward. He is very photogenic, and loves attention.

I take Benny out with me whenever possible, and when I can't have him walking, he sits in a pet carrier I have for him which sits on my shoulders like a fronted back pack. Most people that see us think he is a little Joey.
I guess then, by definition, that makes me a kangaroo!

Fan Club Info: You can send email to me, Benny, via my human mom at: dalia @ bellsouth.net. (Before sending, be sure to take out the spaces in that email address. FloridaPets.net puts those in to prevent people from spamming.)

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