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| Name: |
Shasta
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Age: |
Three years old
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| Gender: |
Female |
Breed: |
Australian Cattle Dog |
| Home: |
Bay Area, California, USA |
Shasta
is one special girl. Shasta was found as a stray and placed in
a shelter. When her time was almost up, a breeder specializing in
Australian Cattle Dog rescues took her in and fostered her until we
found her on CattleDog.com in
their dog rescue site.
She is the most awesome Queensland Blue! Since joining our family,
we've helped her overcome her shyness and fear of strange things
through exposure of everything and anything. We take her everywhere
with us, including when we go shopping. She's a regular customer at
The Gap, The Pottery Barn and Neiman Marcus to name a few places. I
even had one gentleman come up to me at a store and tell me that
Shasta is one of the best behaved dogs he's ever seen. Shasta also
would accompany to work, sleeping and chewing her toys underneath my
desk while I worked. My thought is that a well-behaved dog gets more
opportunities to do things with their owners in the daily routine of
every day life.
We work with Shasta on obedience training, and for the last few months
she's been training in agility. Her favorite obstacle is racing
through the curved tunnels. She whips through them like a cyclist
banking the corners in a velodrome. Her favorite place in the whole
wide world is going to the dog park where she can run and play with
other dogs on the beach and on the trails. It's truly beautiful to see
such happy dogs play with each other with so much zest for life.
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