For as long as I can remember, my sister and I had begged our parents to get a Boston terrier. Mostly, they said "no," and we would get disappointed.

But one day, our dad looked in the Sunday newspaper and saw an ad that had Boston terrier puppies for sale in McKeesport. My dad called to me upstairs and said, "Let's go look at some Boston terrier puppies." I was so excited it felt like I was on a rampage.

So, we went to look at them. On the way, my dad said, "We are just going to look and not buy one," so I got kind of upset.

When we pulled up to the house, we saw about 10 puppies, and it was hard to choose -- I still was hoping we were going to buy one.

We spotted a puppy. He was the biggest of them all. The owner called him Fat Boy, and it was funny because he was fat. My dad asked the owner how much the puppy was.

He said $450, and my dad said, "That is a good deal." We watched Fat Boy untie the owner's shoe using his mouth.

My dad said, "Well, I guess we will buy Fat Boy." I was excited.

My mom and sister didn't know, and we wanted to surprise them. When we got home they were shocked to see that we bought a puppy.

That night we called some of my dad's friends to come down to our house to see the puppy and to try to give it a name.

My parents looked in the dictionary. I thought that was a dumb idea. We looked for any unusual marks on the puppy.

We saw on the top of his head a white spot shaped like the letter "M," and I thought of Moe of the Three Stooges. Then I thought of Mo-Mo and everyone agreed.

In the past few years, Mo-Mo grew really big, and every day when my mom came home from work, she would give Mo-Mo a plastic water bottle that he liked to chew on. We gave him the nickname Bottle Boy.

My mom also calls him Little Boy and Piggy because of his floppy ears. He likes to go into the back yard and run around and around in circles.

My dad calls him Wimpy because he is scared of the simplest things.

When my mom takes him on walks people ask what his name is and she says Killer because when Mo-Mo sees other dogs he gets in a pounce position and acts as if he is going to shred them to pieces. But his best friend is a neighborhood cat named Willie.

Mo-Mo is a good soccer player and football player and has a lot of talent for a dog that weighs 25 pounds. He ran in Regent Square's Run Around the Square with all the other neighborhood dogs.

Mo-Mo is 3 now, and he is a great dog to have.