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Posted over 6 years ago
| Updated over 6 years ago
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My basic info
Breed
Cattle Dog
Color
Gray/Blue/Silver/Salt & Pepper
Age
Young
Size
Med. 26-60 lbs (12-27 kg) (when grown)
Weight
–
Sex
Female
Pet ID
–
My details
Good with kids
Good with dogs
Not good with cats
Shots current
Spayed / Neutered
Housetrained
My story
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Here's what the humans have to say about me:
This is little Dingo dog. She is a very small Cattle Dog at around 25 pounds. Dingo is a little over a year old and is definitely full of puppy energy. She can sometimes be shy with new people, particularly men, but warms up quickly and then she is very loving and sweet. She loves children and likes to spend time with them, but is still quite mouthy when she is excited so she needs to be supervised with kids. Please read up on this breed before you inquire. They are quirky and odd little dogs, but they are also really fun and completely doting and faithful to their immediate family. As young dogs they are more social but as they mature they usually narrow their "friends list" and are wary with strangers or people that they don't see often.
Dingo is nervous in new environments. She is good in the car but is still is afraid to go for rides and doesn't see the fun quite yet so her foster owners have to lift her to get her in. She prefers being off leash but is still too flighty to be without a leash in an unfenced area so we are looking for a home where she has a fenced yard to play in. She may change and become more confident once she is secure with her relationship with her humans and starts to explore the world more, or this may just be who she is and when she is outside of the home she needs to be leashed. When she is comfortable she is fun loving and very silly. She loves her little doggy toys and is fairly good with them and plays with them and gathers them up into little piles. She needs to be watched in the house as she is still learning what she is allowed to play with and what she isn't. She will still grab shoes, books, paper, pens, and crayons so her foster family is working hard on supervising her so that she can learn what is ok for her to put her mouth on and what is not. In her new home she will still need an owner that can work on training this young pup to be a proper house mate.
Dingo learned right away how to use the doggy door and is smart as a whip! She sleeps in a crate every night and also whenever her owners can't watch her or when they are gone during the day. She loves playing with her doggy friends and enjoys the company of another dog but she is not a good playmate for every dog. She can be very very rough. She starts out playing appropriately but as she gets more comfortable she ends up grabbing dogs by their ankles, tails, ears and likes to wrestle. Sometimes this can be very frustrating to the other dogs so she needs a lot of guidance by her owners to teach her what is appropriate behavior. She also will guard toys and her crate from other dogs, even her best friends and she will dart at them like a trap door spider and nip hard. This is not all the time, just part of the time. We will be very selective about what home she goes into if there are other dogs so that she doesn't get progressively worse or starts intimidating the other dog in the household and we also don't want any fights to occur. In her current foster home she has one dog that she in particular does this to, a large goofy male Labrador. He doesn't even notice half the time so it is not upsetting to him, but his foster family does manage her to prevent her from getting worse. She NEVER does it to the older female Cattle Dog in the household, but that would probably not end in Dingo's favor so she is smart enough not to risk it!
Dingo is a really really great dog and her foster family absolutely loves her, but they are long term Cattle Dog lovers. If you are familiar with the breed and are interested in learning more about this dog please email us for more info. Dingo's adoption fee is $250 plus $10.99 microchip registration fee. She is spayed, chipped, vaccinated and is heart worm negative.
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