My sponsor named me Forrest after her dog.  I’m 3-5 years old and a proud, male, mini Black Tri Australian shepherd with gorgeous blue eyes. Everyone thinks I am adorable and very smart.  I learn very quickly.  I used to be a breeder aussie.  My foster sister is also an aussie and that made me feel very welcome in my foster home since I was immediately comfortable with her. Having another aussie to play with and learn from really helped.

I love an open kennel but I am not fond of a closed kennel since it usually means you are leaving me alone.  I like to be with people since I have never been alone.  Foster mom tried me in the kennel for a few nights but I was very unhappy.  Now I have free run in the house when foster mom is home.  We all sleep better on the bed.  I taught myself to do steps so I could get up to the bedrooms since my kennel was on the first floor. 
 

I am house trained.  When I first arrived I had a few accidents with marking in the house so best to keep an eye on me to remind me on my first few days.  I have been neutered since then and that might be helping with that.  I haven’t met many dogs while in foster but get along with all those I have met.  Sometimes I do alert barking when the neighbors come out suddenly and startle me but I am pretty quiet usually.  My foster mom thinks it’s a good to bark a few times as an alert.  The neighbors are getting much better about saying hi when I let them know I am there.  TVs are new to me.
 

I am a love bug.  I love to play inside & outside, take naps on the deck, snuggle in the chair, chase tennis balls, tug and carry my stuffed toys.    It’s fun to run around the yard and I do a perimeter check every time I go out.  I love to go on walks, meet new people & dogs and mark everything in sight.  My foster mom keeps saying ‘leave it’ and ‘walk’ so I am figuring out she doesn’t want to stop every 5’.  I haven’t really walked on a leash much before.  If you don’t have another dog like my foster sister who is mentoring me now, it would be great if we went to dog school so I could learn how to do that better.  Yesterday we started a new game called tunnel.  I do love a treat.  I know lots of words now:  sit, lie down, rollover, take, come, tunnel, off, leave it, kennel, stay, break, cross, wait, stop (some of these I know better than others). 
 

When I get hungry or need exercise, I am really good at making up my own games.  Sometimes I play with my toys.  Other times I try to play with my foster mom toys, generally grabbing something like towels from the bathroom, paper from the waste basket or notebooks off a shelf and running away fast. It always works to get foster mom to pay attention.  I love tearing up paper but foster mom isn’t so keen.  

Adoption fee includes: Full veterinary exam, alter, dental, prepaid microchip, dewormed, Rabies vaccine, DAPP vaccine, Bordetella vaccine, 4DX , dental, flea/tick and heartworm preventative while in rescue. Adoption fee: $ 625.00

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