On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:20:25 -0600, Omelet >
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>In article >,
> pure kona > wrote:
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>> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:19:40 -0600, Kathleen
>> > wrote:
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>> >http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=...tao&localeid=e
>> >n_US
>> Loved the photos!! We must have gigantica BC. Mollie is huge but
>> just as sweet as your dogs look. Love BCs.
>>
>> aloha,
>> Cea
>
>I'm considering adopting a second one to play with Jewely and keep her
>occupied.
>
>Heaven knows the pounds euthanize a lot of them around here. :-( People
>don't know what they are getting in to sometimes with them and their
>energy levels.
>
>I have .22 acres fenced yard for them to romp.
>
>I prefer to adopt adult dogs from the shelter anyway...
>
>This is the first BC I've ever owned and we are seriously loving her.
>:-) Smart and OH so sweet! Easy to train too.
Good idea to adopt from the shelter! This our first BC too. Yesterday
a neighbor (we each have about 5 acres) reported that a neighbor's
dog, a Rottweiler, came onto her property and tore up her cat and it
cost $1300 to fix the pet. remembered that our BC had been barking and
acting in her crazy BC way that day, running around with seemingly no
real direction, but always looking up towards that neighbor's farm.
Then I remembered that a BC's original job was to warn the shepherd of
an interloper coming near the sheep herd and realised that was what
Mollie was doing. Obviously she was "warning" us and that Rottweiler
was probably confused enough by Mollie's barking that he didn't dare
come near our farm. She would never attack another dog, but she is a
good harmless watch dog for our family and that includes the cats.

Yes I'd get another lickety split. Yes, foolish people, like the
people who turned in our Mollie as a pup. They loved her coloring but
lived in a condo- egads! They were smart enough to turn her into the
Humane Society and we were lucky to get her.

aloha,
Cea