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February 23, 2008

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Rusty, the Dog of the Day
Name: Rusty
Age: Six months old
Gender: Male Breed: Australian Shepherd
Home: Ohio, USA
 
   My name is Rusty, I'm six months old, and I'm a pure breed Australian Shepherd. I live in ohio with my mother and my human mom and four other dog's, all female's and all aussie's.

    Mom calls us all "the gang." Their names are Tag, she's the boss, then comes Sassy, Angie, and Star, she's my mom. My dad was a beautiful long coated red merle Aussie and mom's a small black tri. My mom's gonna get "spayed" whatever that means, probably the opposite of what neutering means. I'm one of eight puppies that Star had and all my brothers and sisters have wonderful homes too. My mom keeps in touch with each one. I love to play with my dog buddies, and oh yea, I have ten other buddies, four horses and four barn cats, and two house cats.

    We all keep our human mom very busy. She gets a bit mad at me because I've started this habit of bringing into the house stones that I chew on and mom's not too pleased when I do it. Mom always has bones (from the butcher shop), for me to chew but ... Oh well I guess I'm just being a boy! I love to ride in mom's Trailblazer and in the back of mom's John Deere gator and go to check fences or whatever need to be done.

    We live on 20 acres of land and mom's always making sure that the horses haven't busted any of the fences or if a tree or tree limb has come down onto it. We all go, me and the "gang," It's a lot of fun riding in the gator, I think I like it even more than in the back of the Trailblazer because I can see all around what's goin' on and someday I hope to see a deer in the back pasture. Not sure what that is but I bet it's nice. Mom does Aussie rescue/fostering but since I've been here she hasn't done any because she says that she needed time to train me to be a good boy in the house. Now she say's I'm a very good boy so I guess she'll be fostering some dogs soon. I can't wait because I'd love to meet other Aussies. I know that mom still does transporting because sometimes the back of the Trailblazer smells like dogs that aren't part of my "gang." I'm a very happy dog to be living here with everybody.

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