Watson is an elderly chupacabra who wears couture and rides in a backpack
Important facts about Watson:
Favorite foods: frozen beef soup bones, pumpkin puree, freeze-dried fish, and he will absolutely steal an entire-ass stick of butter if you leave it where he can reach it
Favorite activity: peeing on that he thinks now belong to him, making blanket volcanoes where he is the lava, and car rides
Dislikes: if i leave and he doesn’t get invited, most treats that are more vegetable/grain than animal, rain, people trying to get all handsy with him before he has decided they’re allowed
Nicknames: grub, dirtfox, screech toad / sapillo chillando, chupacabra, and various portmanteaus of chupacabra+chihuahua
Watson in more detail:
Watson had a rough start in life. It took S.P.O.T. three years to rehabilitate him into adoptable status (the first time they tried, he was returned the same day), and i couldn’t even touch him before i brought him home. Or look at him too long, for that matter.
That was in 2018, though, and now he’s a different dog. Still a little skittish, but for a tiny guy who’d never gone on a walk before, he took to adventures like a (very small) t-rex to chomping (even smaller) iguanadons.
Watson has visited seventeen U.S. states, plus British Columbia, Canada. He’s waded into the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, climbed rocky ridges, and drunk from mountain streams. He has seen alligators (behind glass!), wild endangered tortoises, porcupines, otters, and other wildlife (from a safe distance), and a Portuguese man-o’-war (from an even safer distance). All this from a little dog who was so stricken with PTSD that the first time someone tried to adopt him from the rescue, they returned him the same day.
Watson refuses to be left behind…
…Even though he’s starting to get a little creaky and he can’t always keep up. We slowly solicited his consent to the palanquin (that’s what we call his backpack). Now he goes everywhere with me except restaurants—he’s a law-abiding canine citizen.
He is the boss of his siblings—even though everyone else outweighs him, even the cat—and as long as you don’t let him know i admitted it…
He’s also the boss of the people. ❥
