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| Name: |
Acné
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Age: |
Six months old
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| Gender: |
Female |
Breed: |
Border Collie, Belgian Malinois
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| 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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