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Nicknames: Speckles, Cattle Dog, Cattle head, Cattle, Sweetcakes, My Lovey Dog, Speckled Buzzsaw, Tiny Cattle Dog
Doggie Dynamics:
Energy
sleepy
energetic
Intelligence
silly
genius
Friendliness
aggressive
affectionate
Playfulness
not playful
very playful
Disposition
anxious
calm
Quick Bio:
-purebred
-pound dog
-dog rescue
Likes: Her blue Softflex Best Ball, her green tug-toy, any ball, Kong toys of all kinds, cookies, training treats, going for walks with Mommy, going for rides in the car, going to obedience class.
Pet-Peeves: Motorcycles!! She hates them even they're parked with no one on them. People riding bicycles and skateboards. People coming to visit our house.
Favorite Toy: The hose -- she LOVES chasing and biting the water! Her tug toy and her blue Softflex Best Ball and her frisbee
Favorite Food: People food used as training treats -- summer sausage, hot dogs, cheese, turkey and chicken. She also has to have a bite every time I eat a banana, plus she loves raw almonds!
Favorite Walk: Any walk with Mommy. She especially likes walking in the woods on her flexi-leash.
Best Tricks: Sit pretty, sit, stay, down. Also, the best trick of all: convincing Daddy that she should sleep in the bed -- it's a miracle! She sleeps under the covers right next to Mommy!
Arrival Story: I had been thinking of going to the pound to get another dog and had been looking on the internet at the Sacramento County Shelter website a lot. There was a really cute dog on the site and I told my husband about it (it was about the thousandth dog I'd told him about) and he said "Let's go down there and you can pick out a dog for your birthday" -- I almost died of excitement! We hopped right in the car and went to the pound. I found the dog on the website, but she was already adopted and was just there waiting for spay surgery. So, I began to look around. I came to a kennel in a quiet area and in it was the sweetest, most timid-looking little Cattle Dog. I talked to her softly and she crept forward and poked her nose through the chain link. I reached in to pet her and she peed a little. She was so scared in there, so sweet. I pet her for a minute more and then realized that this was my dog. I went to find my husband and told him to bring an employee so we could take her out and socialize with her. When I got back to her kennel, there was a man with two rowdy boys in front of her kennel. She was too scared of them to come up to the gate. I told the Dad I was adopting her, knowing that she was the right dog for me even though I hadn't even taken her out of the cage yet. My husband brought the employee and they let us take her into a yard to play with her. She just tried to crawl in my lap and my husband said "this is your dog" and so we went and told them we wanted to adopt her. They said she was an owner turn-in just that morning, and she still needed to be temperament-tested. I was nervous that she'd fail their tests because she seemed scared and the guy who took her into the room to test her was huge (and, to a smallish dog, probably scary). But she passed! He said she was timid, but would be okay. So, we adopted her right then, and because she was already spayed, we got to take her home right away! She slept on my lap the whole way home. When we got home, our Cattle Dog mix, Sammy, liked her fine, but our German Shepherd, Bob, was NOT happy to see her (he is not fond of strange dogs). We took them for a walk together and then Bob had to be leashed and/or crated for a full 24 hours before he accepted her in his house and yard. But now they are all three great friends. I had always wanted to adopt a dog from the pound, and Bella was that dream come true!
Bio: Bella is the most loving, sweetest, affectionate dog! She is also such a "follow dog" -- she follows me everywhere I go, even into the bathroom! She is unbelievably smart, she learns so fast and is excellent at obedience (and we use positive methods only, so she really loves training). She is always either at my feet or bringing me a toy or -- my favorite -- cuddling up in my lap. She's so athletic and energetic and eveyday I have to do what I call "wearing out the Cattle Dog", which is basically exercising her until she is tired out (even though it doesn't take long before she is ready to play again!). She is the greatest birthday present I have ever gotten and ever will. I feel blessed to have such a wonderful dog in my life.
Forums Motto: No Worries, Mate!
The Groups I'm In: Fancypants Cafe, ~*Dog Park PlayGround and Pawty Place*~, Australian Cattle Dog, Australian Cattle Dogs, BadDogs, Cattle Dogs Forever, Dogs with SPOTS and DOTS!, Greatest American Dog Fan Club!, P*I*F (Paw it Forward)
My Best Friend: My Bestest friend in the whole world is Sheila! She is a little Girl Cattle Dog that is a whole lot like me! We have lots of things in common, the best one being that we both love to bark at things... and we know that things love to be barked at! It's a friendship made in Heaven!
Things I like to bark at: Motorcycles (even if they are parked and no one is on them), trucks, skateboards, other dogs, people, bicycles, joggers, deer, livestock, birds at the feeder... I must defend against all these things by barking and barking and, if at all possible, herding them away!
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Educating Bella: Something I love: Dog training! See, my Mommy uses only dog-friendly training methods, so that means clicks and treats and toys and targets and fun, fun, fun! We do fun behaviors all during the day, and my rewards are stuff like my own dinner or Mommy opening the door for me... it makes training a part of my real life -- and that's fun too! One of my best behaviors is "sit to say please", which means I automatically sit when I want something, like for Mommy to throw the ball or put on my leash. Mommy says I am so smart that I learn stuff faster than any dog she's ever known. I get an A+!!
Me and Mommy went on lots of walkies tonight! First, we did training with the clicker! We went into town and we did the training while we went for a walk... I earned treats for being a good girl and heeling and sitting and waiting while on a walk! A lady driving by even gave us a thumbs up!
Then, we got serious about our walking and we just walked and walked, nice and brisk, all around town. There were lots of neat sounds and sights and smells. We stopped in front of the Wine Smith for a bit and I did a sit stay while Mommy listened to the band play through the open door... they were very good and one of them even faced her and smiled and played guitar that way for a moment!
It was a beautiful evening for a walk, and I exercised my body AND my mind!
Yesterday afternoon, me and Mommy went on a great errand... to buy a kiddie pool for us doggies to splash in this summer! While she was in the store buying the pool, I barked SO HARD at some skateboarders that I sprayed my frothy spit all over the inside of Mommy's truck! Then, we went for the funnest walk, all over town! I peed like a boy dog, lifting my leg, lots of times, and I scratched the ground with all four feet, too!
Today we relaxed most of the day, but then Mommy set up our new pool in the backyard (our backyard is fun and grassy, like a dog park!) and me, Bob, and Amy all played "catch the hose water" and I splashed and played in the pool! It was lots of fun, and now I'm a soggy doggy!
This evening, me and Mommy are going for another fun walk! And this time I will earn my dinner on the road, as Mommy will use it for training treats and I will be rewarded for good behaviors while out walking. This is easy, since I am a very good girl (most of the time... heehee).
Guess what! I got Giardia! I got a really sick tummy and I had lots of loose poopies AND I vomited. Mommy didn't know I was that sick, and I went for a ride in the car with her and that's when I had my poopies and lost my breakfast! Mommy was busy-busy cleaning the car, and I had to go to the vet (YUCK).
Now I feel all better... I am taking pills three times a day, and I get a fun new diet called "bland diet" and it is rice and turkey! YUMMY!
Today Mommy took pictures of me in front of the daisies, nice springtime pictures! And more importantly, they are pictures of me feeling better!
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