Coco, Winston, & Lacie Gracie

These three make quite the pack! Coco and Winston are five-year-old littermates who actually look nothing alike – Coco got mostly the chihuahua genes while Winston got the terrier genes, and Lacie Gracie is 50 pounds but thinks she’s a 15-pound lap dog like her siblings. (She is not one of their littermates, ha!)

Lacie is the baby of the family, nearly a year old, so she has boundless energy and loves to play and run. She is extremely gentle and sweet and loves everyone (person or dog!) she meets, especially if they have a toy to share. Winston is a scruffalicious lovebug who just wants to be wherever you are, checking things out. Coco is the smallest, so of course she is the boss of the house. She loves treats and cuddles in equal measure!

Walter

Walter is a Bernese Mountain dog who is as loving and gentle as you could ever hope a dog would be. Even at eight years old, he still looks like a floppy puppy when he rests his head on his paws, and his eyes still sparkle when he hears a treat bag crinkle.

I especially loved seeing how adorable he is with his favorite stuffed toys, one of which is a big yellow duck that he uses as a chin rest. Don’t those big brown eyes just make you melt?

Chanel

Aptly named Chanel is a five-year-old Maltese who was simply born to be a model. She loved all the attention that came with the camera and never stopped posing, whether she was sitting perfectly or running straight toward the camera for an action shot.

Even with the bow in her hair, though, Chanel is a tomboy at heart. She loves to play fetch with anything (she went digging in my camera bag at one point and surfaced with a tennis ball like she wanted to join the big dogs!), and if you don’t throw it for her, she will fling it across the room herself.

And if that doesn’t make her adorable enough, when she’s tuckered out from playing, she’ll curl up with her mom for a cuddle or stretch out next to her for a belly rub…until she gets her second wind and she’s ready to play again!