Annie
Australian Cattle Dog Mix | Female | 11 months Old | 44 Lbs
QUICK FACTS: ✔️ Good with other dogs and kids! ✔️ Crate trained! ✔️ Housebroken! ✔️ Good in car! ✔️ Good running buddy!
✔️ Walks well on leash! ✔️ Could live in an apartment! ✔️ Good for beginner dog owner!
Updates
This momma found her family January 1, 2021!
Annie sleeps in her crate at night until I get home from work around 7 am (I work nights). We go for a quick walk to potty and then she goes back in her crate to sleep while I sleep. In the afternoons we go for a longer walk or run, usually around 30-45 minutes. The rest of the day she lays around the house chewing a rawhide or playing with my dogs. If we don’t get out for a longer walk, she’s still very well behaved inside. She’s never really hyper, although she’s happy to walk for as long as you are up for it.
Annie has loved every person she has met and politely wags her tail and licks them. She does not jump. She is not a barker and is very polite and submissive. Annie does not live with children, but she has met children on walks and does great with them as she does with all people.
She walks great on a leash although she occasionally pulls if she smells something interesting. I walk her with a regular collar and haven’t had to use a prong or head collar. If we are not near a busy street, she also does great off leash and has good recall.
Annie lives with three other dogs and does great with them. She guarded her food from them when I first got her but doesn’t do this anymore now that she knows them. I’m not sure if she would do this at first with new dogs or not. When she’s out on a walk and encounters strange dogs, she can get anxious and will whine and tuck her tail. She prefers if strange dogs ignore her, and she sometimes will growl at strange dogs if they are too interested in sniffing her and she feels intimidated. I advocate for her by putting myself between her and the dog, and she has learned to hide behind me when she meets another dog. She does much better when meeting new dogs off leash. She will go up to them and sniff them and then run away and ignore them. She prefers to play with dogs that she knows. Annie has not been around cats.
She is crated or in her own room when I leave the house. She occasionally has gotten into something she shouldn’t - like shredding a roll of paper towels - so we just play it safe. She is completely potty trained and has never had an accident.
Annie is a very sweet, happy dog who charms everyone she meets. She was picked up as a stray in Texas and was pregnant when she was found. She had her puppies in my house, and they have all grown up and been moved to different foster homes now. She is loving her child-free life, since she is still just a big puppy herself.