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| Name: |
Benny
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Age: |
Seven years old
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| Gender: |
Male |
Breed: |
West Highland White Terrier |
| Home: |
North Potomac, Maryland, USA |
This
is Benny, a West Highland White Terrier adopted by our family four
years ago when our youngest daughter was 16. Benny was between two and
three when we got him so he's between six and seven now. We drove to the
Washington Animal Rescue League in Washington, DC to wander around and
see who stole our heart, and to our shock there was a Westie ... a breed
of dog I always admired. We put in our application and waited until we
were approved, and of course the day they called us was a storm unlike
any other, so we had to wait and pray that he'd still be there when we
could make it into the city.
Since he arrived in our home he has forgotten that he was born a poor,
white dog into a trailer park in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.
He lived with a woman who rarely let him in at night, and some kind
women in the area got her to turn him over, and at age three-ish he was
driven up to WARL and the rest is history. He is the king of our house,
and spends much of the day keeping guard against the squirrels,
chipmunk, deer, fox, and any other invaders. At the Gaithersburg,
Maryland dog park he doesn't socialize much, but is more likely to be
found, what we call, securing the perimeter. We are kind of silly there,
so we call him Benjamin Netanyahu, former prime minister of
Israel, since he takes his guarding job quite seriously. Like most
Westies he is unaware of his size, happy to be with his mom who he
favors, and proud of the Westie shrine we've been building in our home
in his honor. He has several beds and lots of toys, and hopefully has
forgotten his long, cold, winter nights at the trailer park. Benny
loves to chase the geese on his Saturday walks at the lake, go sledding
(if it ever snows) with his dad, and bury his face in the snow.
OOOOOOOOh we love him a lot!
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