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| Name: |
Cameo
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Age: |
Seven years old
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| Gender: |
Female |
Breed: |
Boxer |
| Home: |
Unionville, Virginia, USA |
This
is our precious Cameo. We rescued her in West Virginia in 1999.
Cameo is deaf, and was debarked before she came to our home. Her first
owners thought she was dumb, and abused her. They didn't realize she
couldn't hear. At her next home, the owners cared very much, but they
had too many dogs to really give Cameo the attention she needed. She
was debarked there. Also while living there, she was attacked by
another female boxer, and ended up with 120 stitches to close her wounds.
In her early years, Cameo was hard to deal with, and a friend of ours,
spent literally hours upon hours with her, socializing her, and training her.
When she came to us, she was the sweetest girl, albeit a little
insecure. When she went outside, she wouldn't let us out of her site.
The same was true inside. She grew much more secure and in a short time
she was romping with our other boxers. We taught her sign language, and
she reads it very well. Actually, she often knows what's going on
before we do. It's actually quite amazing.
A couple of years after we had her, she developed a grade 3 mast cell
tumor. We had it removed with wide margins, and she was given a 50
percent chance of living. Well, our little girl made it! She has one
more scar to prove exactly how resilient and tough she is.
Cameo has also lived through the death of three of our other boxers.
Dolly, Cooper, and Casper. They are sorely missed, and we can tell that
Cameo misses them too. At this time, she has the company of our other
white boxer Cody. They are very close, and play very well together.
Wherever we are, Cameo is there. When she is being petted and loved and
Cody gets too close, she will warn him off with a squeak (since
debarking, squeaking is all she can do.) We have a boxer friend who
stops by on his way to Georgia every year, and Cameo lands in his lap
when he first sits down and adopts him as her personal person for the
day. She lets her brother Cody, and our friend's boxers know that our
friend is hers for the day!
When we wake up in the morning, she acts like we have been gone for a
week. It never fails. She does the best kidney bean dance of any boxer
we've ever seen ;o) She does the same when I give the sign that it's
'time to eat' or 'daddy's home'. At night, she is always curled up next
to one of us, and yes, both sleep with us.
Cameo loves to be petted, and will come and push her nose under our arms
to get us to pet her. She will also put her paw in our laps as another
way of communicating that it's time to pet Cameo.
She loves to play, and she can play rough. I think her brother Cody
taught her that. ;o) One special game they play is 'Cody under the
blanket'. Cody will crawl under a blanket (and he knows this will get
Cameo's attention) and Cameo will pounce on him! Then the playing
starts.
No one is a stranger to Cameo. If we let them in the house, then they
are her friends! And boy, do they ever get lots of boxer kisses. She
is just a sweetheart to everyone.
Cameo is very special to us. She is so beloved, so sweet, and she has
come through some tough times in her early years. Now, she has a home
where she is unconditionally loved, and she can sense that. Cameo
doesn't need to hear in order to know just how much she is loved.
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