Dog of the Day
BackBack July 14, 2015 ForwardForward

Today's Dog
Nominate Your Pet
Previous Dogs
Pet Talk
Poll
Search
Links
Why?
About Us

Today's
Dog of the Day
Today's Dog of the Day
 
Mookie the Miniature Australian Shepherd, the Dog of the Day
Name: Mookie
Age: Four years old
Gender: Male Breed: Miniature Australian Shepherd
Home: New Hampshire, USA
 
   Mookie is smart, smart, smart. He communicates his needs to us and he is trying to please us more now. He is still not friendly to strangers, but we are still working on that. We had adopted him off craigslist at 8 months, and he came with a lot of issues. He is more tolerant of strangers if they have a dog that likes him ... if not, he gets quite dramatic.

     He has a lot of different noises that he uses to communicate his feelings, desires etc. The picture of him with his head in my boot is him telling he wants me to go for a walk. He puts himself on the couch, which he knows he is not supposed to be on, but he intentionally gets in trouble when he wants something and I am not paying attention.

     He came with the name Moose, but we didn't like that name however, we didn't want to change his name too radically, since he had so much adjusting to do. So my husband Joe said, "What about “Mookie," then I googled it and it is the name of a river in Australia. So it worked, I thought, for an Australian Shepherd. He does have a middle name Kabuki (which is a Japanese drama, because he is so dramatic about everything). So his name becomes Mookie Kabukie! We love our quirky boy!

Mookie the Miniature Australian Shepherd, the Dog of the Day
Mookie the Miniature Australian Shepherd, the Dog of the Day

Talk about Mookie in Pet Talk!




Aphrodite the Labrador Retriever Eevee the Samoyed Blu the Spaniel Lucky the Rat Terrier/American Eskimo Dog Odin the Yorkshire Terrier/Chihuahua mix Kira the Rottweiler, German Shepherd mix Charly the Pitbull mix Ettore the American Staffordshire Terrier
©1998-2015 Painted Turtle Productions, all rights reserved.
Privacy