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Acné, the Dog of the Day
Name: Acné
Age: Six months old
Gender: Female Breed: Border Collie, Belgian Malinois
Home: Ostrava, Czech Republic
 
   This is Acné, we call her Aki for short! Aki isn't my first dog so far, that was a tricolor Border Collie, Abigail, but everything I've done with her was wrong. On top of that; she was the last pup of a litter, the smallest puppy and most timid of them all. She was scared of dogs, of people, of cars and of heights (that's right, she couldn't even climb the stairs without her tail stucked in the belly). And me, as an amateur, didn't know how to manage her.

    Aki's absolutely opposite of Abby. She's fearless, she holds her head high and dare if anyone wants to make her dog friends or human friends feel bad. She'd jump in front of a train for you. She loves tennis balls and discs, but she can destroy anything she can get, I've never seen a dog destructor of this kind. Tennis ball has about a twenty-minute-long service life, a disc about ten minutes and any plushes can't last more than two minutes. She always rips their plastic eyes off, then she amputate their hands, legs, paws, tails and ears and in the end, she rips off their head. Poor plushies. It's true she hates to be alone. If you leave her home alone for about ten minutes and then go back, you wouldn't believe how happy she is. She jumps you all over to lick your face while whining, then she falls on her back and wants to be petted (she literally falls, it wasn't just once when he bumped his head onto something), then she gets up, get some of her toys (the most closest one) and barf with it in her mouth while running all over the house. I must say, nothing feels better than when you see someone so happy just 'cause you've came to him.

    I must say, I've loved Border Collies since my early age and never wanted any other dog. My dream was (is) to have a Border Collie kennel and do agility, frisbee and other dog sports... I couldn't wait for the age of eighteen to live alone and have a lot of Border Collies. If I have just once thought about other breed than Border Collie, it was Belgian Shepherd. And now, finally, I was looking for a sanguine Border Collie for so long and that much thoroughly, that I've got to have the Border Collie x Belgian Malinois crossbreed. I still can't get how did that happen.

    I didn't know what to expect at first. 'Will she be like a Border Collie? Or like a Mali?' I secretly hoped she'd be all Border Collie. But the truth is - she's all Malinois. She protects everything she loves, she's so into chasing things (oh, like cars, that's our nightmare actually), and she's smart and teachable above average. She can connect with you just through eyes. She's not so loyal, that might be the thing what the Border Collie breed gave her. She doesn't care about other dogs or people we pass by, but when some stranger makes some friendly sound towards her (like, "oh, you're a cutie!" or "awww!"), she suddenly doesn't have ears (read: her ears are turned back to make it easier for you to pet her, it looks like she lost the ears along the way), her tail moves like she could fly away with it and the person she's going towards is going to be jumped and licked all over his face. Yeah, and she likes herding the birds. But I think it's not the Border Collie in her doing that, but that she learned it when living with other Border Collies. (We got her at five months and until then she lived with Border Collies). But it's kind of fun to watch Malinois walking with the classic Border Collie pose; her head and forelegs lowered, eyes intense and tail down with bottom third of tail upturned.

    Right now, Aki's just a half-year-old pup, but I can't wait 'till she gets older and we can do agility and frisbee and protecting and dancing and coursing and and and ... so on. She's oh-my-god so fast! And so smart! If I train her to learn her new trick, I can show it just once and then she absolutely understands what I want. The cue "stay" she learned in few minutes. (And I trained my previous Border Collie for two months for the "stay" and she was still very unsure in doing that). I think that as the day comes when she'll see agility equipment, she'd know exactly what she has to do. And the dogfrisbee! Oh, how she loves flying in the air! I try to not make her jump too much, but she's unstoppable. She's going to love it.

    I just wanted to let you know, what a crosbreed between the most intelligent and most active breeds is like. She's just awesome.

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