i have the cutest dog in the world

this morning i was running late. so instead of doing our normal quick walk and then i come inside and get ready, we did it the other way around. for some reason i think this is faster. so i got ready and ran downstairs and out the door with tatum. then we came back inside and i started making my breakfast. tatum stood by the door and whined. finally i realized she thought she was going to get to go today and i was holding her up. i finally said "no, honey bunny..." that's another one of her nicknames, "...today is a stay day." she huffed and went and sat on her loveseat and scowled at me from there until i was done making my breakfast. she wouldn't even see me to the door because she was holding such a grudge.
then tonight we were petting her and found a lump under her chin. so we flipped her over and dug through her beard and found an ingrown hair of some sort. but it seemed like a whisker hair was coming out of it but it was UNDER her chin. i don't know what it was. i went and got the rubbing alcohol and cotton balls and came back in. paul tried to coax her out from under the desk and she slowly eeked out from under there with her head ducked and put up her paw to "give us five". she's so dang cute! she knows JUST how to work it to use her best tricks. AAAAAHHH i love this puppy dog!