I have a dog named Alice, she is the newest addition to our family as she was just brought home 3 months ago, we actually never intended to have another dog as we already had 2 but the story of how we got her was a long one! It initially started with me asking my parents for a cat because I think I had cat fever at the time because I had watched too many cute videos of kittens online as cats became the only thing on my mind. My mom was okay with the idea by my dad was so incredibly against the idea of having a cat inside the house, so in secret my mom and I went over to the BCSPCA (shelter for animals) and looked at some cats available. I fell in love with this black and white cat named Bugs when I walked into the room she instantly started coming towards me, she was such a sassy little cat! Then my mom told me to consider the 2 dogs we have now and how they would probably not appreciate a cat in the house, although I didn’t want it to be true it was and I had to say bye-bye to Bugs. When I got home I was quite sad when my dad called me to come to look at some dogs up for adoption, my dad is a dog person whereas I am a cat person so I was kind of opposed to the idea. I was quite surprised when he showed me a listing of bichons for sale in Winnipeg (my home city). So since I knew there was no way I was going to get that cat I thought “Well I might as well go just because I get to see my long-distance friends!” So we bought a dog carrier and flew off to Winnipeg, as soon as I arrived I could just smell that the air was completely different from Victoria’s it just felt more heavy. I then went over to My friend Conny’s house for a sleepover and when I came back to our hotel there she was our new little rat dog, we had no idea what to call her we were so stuck on a name, and since we had no idea we all agree that for now, we would call her “crissa” which is “rat” in Russian (as a joke of course) We then flew back home, when we arrived back at the house we had realized we had not informed my grandparents about our new little rat family member. So we snuck into the house, gave her a bath, and then presented her to my grandparents, they were shocked! We sat down with our now 3 dogs and created a thinking circle on what to name this little rat dog, my dad wanted to name her Lisa but everyone rejected that idea so fast, so I recommended the name Alice! Everyone loved it so now we call her “Alica Crisa” which means “Alice Rat”! She is my favorite little dog ever !!!!