Meet Missy Elliot! Missy is my older sister’s fur baby, making her my fur baby niece (or Niecey Baby, as I like to call her). Missy can’t travel to visit me in Japan, because she’s a nervous wreck in transit, but there’s no such impediment preventing my family back home from photobombing me with adorable pictures of her 24/7! So allow me to share that uplifting experience with you all.

Missy’s favorite things are fetch, tug-o-war, terrorizing squirrels, cheese, popcorn, waking up at the crack of the dawn to demand the aforementioned things, disemboweling stuffed animals, and belly rubs (but only when she demands them, at which point stopping is not an option without her expressed approval).