Okay, some of you may have heard that we got a dog for Christmas. This is true, though technically we got her in janurary.
So let me tell you more about our latest addition, Stella, that goofball.
She is a German shepherd/ Australian blue heeler. She is a small dog, only coming up to my knees when she stands. But she thinks she is as big as the saint bernard that lives down the street. In fact, she thinks she should be alpha dog and pick fights with all the bigger dogs. It doesn't matter that they could swallow her in one bite. But cat fights aside (ha-ha, cat fights! Well, I thought it was funny) she is a sweet dog. She love to be petted. My older sister takes it to the next level.
Poor Stella, everyone (besides me) thinks that she is a lapdog. So you will see her being carried and put on to peoples laps. i think that she does not like that but who knows. My older sister says that Stella gets all the attention that a boyfriend would get, whatever that means......
She does have some funny quirks. She barks at the mailman but only a certain one, at some points she thinks she is a cat, she has tried to climb trees before (but she always fails), she is always mistaken for a boy dog, she will do anything, and I mean anything, for a treat. She is also very trainable.
By the second week we had her, she was playing dead at the sound of a gunshot. She also knows who to: pray, spin, crawl, sit pretty (beg), wave, raise her hand to answer a question and many more. One of her coolest tricks in my mind is her refeering. She learned to do this one on her own. My sister and I were in a little fight and we were play shoving each of other. Stella decide to break up the fight by nipping who ever shoved in her reach. Personally, I think she thinks its a game. When we first met her she couldn't even sit. So I think she is pretty smart.
Because of the German Shepherd in her, she is very alert and dignified. She loves to play most of the time, even though her playing does involve her rather sharp teeth. one of my sisters, Grace, has a old toy dog and Stella loves it. If we hid it, she will search for it everywhere. It is quite amusing.
Because of the Blue Heeler, she can jump really high. She also needs a lot of excises. She loves to run. it can be a pain, because the house we are living in does not have a fenced in backyard, so for her to go to the bathroom and get exercise, we have to take he for walks. She is a inside dog, so we take her for a lot of walks.
In fact, this winter there was a pretty bad snow storm. You could only see one block a head of you and the snow was two feet deep. but Stella had to go to the bathroom, she we had to walk her in the bitter cold. If that isn't love, I don't know what is.
And we do love her and I hope you, after reading this, begin to love her too.
Here is some photos of her
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