Ty Dozer is a 13-year-old puppy. This loveable black and white English Setter with a patch of brown above his left eye is the opposite of Ozzie (also available for adoption). Ty is full of energy and raring to go. With his age, he does have cataracts (his eyes are blue when he looks at the light), but his sense of smell is perfectly fine. He can find your food and shoes extremely well!

He is like a puppy, running around, licking and tasting everything, and then when he finds something, he takes off through the house with his prize before begging to go outside. (He has not attempted to bury anything yet!) He loves to be around you, and he will find a way to make it into bed. He prefers to sleep in the bedroom, and if you put him in his cage and he disagrees with you, he will huff. He is an extremely good dog, and he loves to attempt to help you eat your dinner. He will lean into you as his legs are a little wobbly at times and he will put his head in your lap when you sit down. He even can look like an English Bulldog at times when he turns his front legs out, and I call it chicken winging.

Ty has earned the middle name Dozer as he will plow through things to get to you, and he loves to come bounding down the hill of my backyard (and I pray he finds the brakes before he finds my legs). His original story when he came from the McLean Animal Shelter fire in Kentucky was that his elderly male owner died and the elderly wife could no longer care for him; I think it was more along the lines that she couldn’t keep up with him as he is energetic, loves to be outside watching the diesel trucks warm up in the mornings at the company that I live behind, and he longingly wishes he could go with the group of men standing around.

One funny thing that he does that I believe comes from his hunting days is that he will roll his head on the ground so that his white streak turns brown. It’s almost like he is attempting to stand on his head. To be his age, he is quite flexible and can even lick his belly through his front legs. He is a drooler as his jaws hang over his teeth and he is a bit on the thin side (believe me, he’s getting extra food too). He is willing to fight over a water or food bowl; on certain rare occasions, he and Ozzie have drink from the same water bowl, but I have stood guard. They sporadically fight when one thinks the other is getting more attention or if it’s in regards to food or water, which is typical in almost any breed of dog.

He was neutered at 13, but has no other issues as Ty gets along with my other three dogs and he even sniffs the others as if to say “Hey, who are you? What did you last get fed?” (see picture of him sniffing Lucy). If you consider adopting him, please be prepared for energy. Ty will crash when it’s time to sleep, but he likes to be up and in the middle of your activities. He is about 23 inches tall and 22-24 inches long (neck to beginning of tail). It’s like measuring a wiggling puppy. I tried to get some good pictures, but he was more interested in putting nose prints on the camera or getting a head rub.