Nicki The Chihuahua (Click to enlarge)
We have just learned that Gidget, the Taco Bell dog, has passed away at a whopping 15 years old. Yep, 15. We know that the family…the real family…of this dog is grieving today and we send our condolences. Sue Chipperton, the trainer, said that Gidget would delight the crew on the set with her antics. She loved her work and always knew where the camera was.
You don’t believe Gidget posed for the camera? I do. I lived with, and loved a Miniature Dachshund named Sonnen many years ago. We were business partners as well. Sonnen and I had an advertising job in the French Quarter. I carried a sign-board with the names and logos of local businesses painted on it, and I handed out flyers with a map to the restaurants and other establishments to the tourists.
Sonnen carried a balsa wood, teeny, tiny sign herself. Hers was so small, there was only one word on it, ‘Information’. She absolutely loved this four hours every day. Of course we attracted a crowd in Jackson Square, and when she heard a camera click, she would raise a front leg, and turn to pose for the clicking camera. People couldn’t believe she knew where the camera was.
Yes, some dogs just know how to be stars. Gidget and Sonnen were two of those. Nicki, the Chihuahua posted here in black and white, is alive and well, but those of us who have loved and lost our best friends will never stop missing them. It doesn’t take much to feel the sting of tears again when news of another rainbow crossing reaches us. Adios, Gidget.
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