Hello Sandy!


I highly recommand that you get your mom a Boston Terrier.
I have a Boston TERRIER, and she is the sweetest, she loves people and kids, so if she has grandchildren then the dog will get along with them great.
When I have company come over she gets her greetings in then she lays down, she loves to see new people as I imagine every dog does. You should never just throw a dog in a room or it will never learn.
A helpful hint to teach your dog to lay down when company comes, is to have your dog on a leash and when it goes to jump on company give a little tug and say no down, and then throw it a toy. This teaches it to go play when company comes.

And for excersie, all I do is take her outside at nigh and she runs around and plays with sticks and the cats. and if you want to take it for a walk it WON'T pull your arm out! LoL

For training your new puppy, when I was researching the boston I read that they are hard to train, and I was kinda erie about this, but I got my pup when she was 6wks old, and I started training her that day, I kept putting her on the paper, and then once she started going on there I let her outside first thing in the morning, then after every meal, and before bed and she was trained in less then a month.

I guess I blabbed enough, let us know what you deciede to do!