Introducing.....Princess Shalla. This is my beautiful little Shalla. She is a black and beige teacup chihuahua. Shalla is 2 years and 3 months old. She is an Easter baby. She was born on Easter weekend in 2005. Shalla finally weighs 4 pounds and is 14 1/2 inches long. Shalla was a birthday present to me from my oldest sister. I fell in love with her from the moment I first held her. She is a sweet, loving, precious, playful little girl. All of Shalla's friends and family will tell you that she is very SPOILED!!

In fact, several of them say they wish they could trade places with her because she is so pampered!! I guess you could best compare her to Barbie...because she truely has everything that a dog could want and more!! She has a car seat, carrier purse, a pouch carry bag that straps to my chest (she loves to ride in this when I ride her on the 4wheeler), about 70 different outfits (including rain coats, bikinis, coats, boots, etc.) and different colors of collars and leashes to match her outfits. I take her to get her nails painted bright pink every 2 weeks. Shalla has many favorite activities. Her favorite is snuggling and playing with her daddy (she is definitely a daddy's girl.)

She loves playing with all of her toys, especially the musical ones. She has a pet bed that matches our living room that I bought just to store her toys in (because of course she sleeps with mommy and daddy.) Each day when I pick up her toys from all over the house and put them back into the bed, she immediately takes them back out and a few more and spreads them back throughout the house!! She's very funny and headstrong!! She also loves to play with her paw-paw and her cousins. She loves to go bye-bye in the car and when I tell her we are going bye-bye she stands on her back paws and whimpers until I pick her up! She is very friendly and loves people, especially children!! She is definitely my heart and the love of her mommy and daddy's life!!

• Shalla is wearing her butterfly costume in the picture!!

Heather Proulx, Hattiesburg, MS