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Dante, the Dog of the Day
Name: Dante
Age: Six years old
Gender: Male Breed: Rough Collie
Home: Finland
 
   This is Dante, he's my six-year-old Rough Collie boy. I bought him 2008 as a puppy from local breeder. I already had a dog, large Munsterlander named Speedy, but he lived at my family's home and was getting old. I had wanted to get a puppy for quite a while.

    Originally I had planned to call him Toivo (which is Finnish and means Hope) but I started to call him Dante, and it seemed to suit him well. He doesn't look like his name could be Toivo!

    He probably isn't the smartest dog in the world, but he does know a few tricks. Dying and bowing are probably his best ones. He obeys people other than me selectively, some woman once wanted him to sit down, but he didn't do it until I told him to. And that's actually pretty good, I don't like it when people I don't know try to make him do stuff.

    He gets along well with most dogs, although he has an issue with German Shepherds. He was attacked by one when he was a puppy, so he has trust issues towards them. He is also extremely friendly towards people and my other pets. I used to have a rat that climbed all over him and hitched a ride to other rooms in my apartment and he did nothing to him.

    Dante doesn't care about toys, he has some but he doesn't play with them, he's been like that ever since he was a puppy, he likes to play with sticks more. He also doesn't care for swimming, I have taken him to a dog beach but no matter how many other dogs want him to go in water with them, he stays at shore. He does know how to swim however, but just prefers staying out of the water all together, even after it has rained, he'd rather walk around puddles than through them.

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