Popea

Popea is my host family´s dog. She is 15 years old and partially blind, but she is still probably my favorite member of the family. She sleeps and spends most of her time in this little chair covered in a blanket in the computer room. In fact, Popea only leaves her chair when someone is eating because she likes to beg for food. I enjoy her company when I´m having a late lunch or a snack even though she whines the whole time, and everyone, including me, gives in to her cuteness and scrapes their leftovers into her bowl no matter how much dog food is already in it. Popea also barks a lot (all the food she eats must give her energy), which can get pretty ridiculous because she´ll bark at people she doesn´t recognize for almost an hour nonstop. Thankfully, she has recently stopped barking at me, and she even managed to recognize me when I came home from my 5 day trip, and secretly, I think I was most happy to see her when I returned.