In article >,
pure kona > wrote:

> >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,

BC's are not good apt. or condo dogs. :-( Not at all. Jewels was at the
shelter for quite awhile and was a week away from being put down. She
was about 8 months old when we adopted her.

She came into heat a week later. :-P I did not want to mess with that
so just paid the vet to board her until her spay date.

Last time I had a dog come into heat prior to spaying, a neighborhood
stray dug into the yard, bred Misty, peed all over her and the front
porch! It was a royal mess.

I had her spayed anyway and aborted the litter.
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Peace! Om

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