Tagged...
After a handful of my contacts recently and graciously tagged me, I gotta live up to the game's expectations.
Since I've done the 30 things about me (or however many they were) back in December, let's see if we can do this about Ouzo.
As if you don't know already enough about him ;)
1. He was born on 10/21/2005. That makes him 3.5 years old - well, about :)
2. He was born in Kansas
3. We got him on 12/22/2005. Our lives have been so different since that day :)
4. Yes, he is purebred Border Collie, despite his white face and floppy ears. Border Collies come in different shapes and colors and patterns. What makes them a Border Collie is their ability to work livestock, which is what they were selected for, not their colors or the shape of their ears
5. He loves toys and he is extremely gentle with them - still has toys from his 1st birthday - balls however are his life
6. Despite all the outdoorsy images you keep seeing of him, Ouzo doesn't have a yard. He doesn't even have a house. He lives in an apartment in a satellite city of Denver, Colorado. He says it's perfectly fine with him
7. He is bilingual – he is fluent in understanding both English and Romanian. No, I am not kidding – he knows all his commands in both languages, and lots of other conversational phrases :) We started teaching him in Romanian as a pup, then we realized that it will be pretty difficult for all our friends, the vet and random people to 1) understand what we’re shouting to our dog and 2) make themselves understood to Ouzo, since we live in Colorado :) So we added English to his vocabulary
8. He knows the names of almost all his toys – and he has lots: dozens and dozens. Lately he’s been only getting maximum 10 at a time (we’re such cruel parents, I know) because of the risk of injury to humans walking in low light and stepping on squeaky things. Or half chewed cow hoofs – ouch!
9. Ouzo was the puppy from hell until he reached 1 year, he chewed so many things that it was a running joke at work to report what my monster puppy has destroyed the previous day. Jewelry – including an emerald bracelet – at least he only chewed the clasp so that was eventually replaced, clothes: underwear (only mine!), remote controls, toilet paper and napkins, sofa legs, a bread knife (we found it on our bed with the plastic handle well chewed – that was scary), shoe laces (these were usually severed while my shoes were lassoed western style all over the living room at breakneck speed, in hope of a good chase), and his worst deed: a bottle of aspirin – ended up costing us $800 in ER visit and follow up IV treatment – all while he didn’t have any bad consequences other than puking black disgusting staining medicinal charcoal all over our beige carpet. He almost never stole food, however. Proof he was a well fed pup - at least :)
Funny thing - after getting over that phase, now he's not much of a chewer, not even with tasty smoked bones, pig ears or raw hides :) We did find a type of bully sticks that he loves, so he's getting those from time to time.
10. He is a big boy for a Border Collie, about 23 inches last time I measured him – couple of years ago, and weighing 47 lbs. He grew fast – at 6.5 months he was already 44 lbs and then stayed at that weight until this year.
Explore - My 150th to be picked - Highest position: 495 on Monday, August 17, 2009
Tagged...
After a handful of my contacts recently and graciously tagged me, I gotta live up to the game's expectations.
Since I've done the 30 things about me (or however many they were) back in December, let's see if we can do this about Ouzo.
As if you don't know already enough about him ;)
1. He was born on 10/21/2005. That makes him 3.5 years old - well, about :)
2. He was born in Kansas
3. We got him on 12/22/2005. Our lives have been so different since that day :)
4. Yes, he is purebred Border Collie, despite his white face and floppy ears. Border Collies come in different shapes and colors and patterns. What makes them a Border Collie is their ability to work livestock, which is what they were selected for, not their colors or the shape of their ears
5. He loves toys and he is extremely gentle with them - still has toys from his 1st birthday - balls however are his life
6. Despite all the outdoorsy images you keep seeing of him, Ouzo doesn't have a yard. He doesn't even have a house. He lives in an apartment in a satellite city of Denver, Colorado. He says it's perfectly fine with him
7. He is bilingual – he is fluent in understanding both English and Romanian. No, I am not kidding – he knows all his commands in both languages, and lots of other conversational phrases :) We started teaching him in Romanian as a pup, then we realized that it will be pretty difficult for all our friends, the vet and random people to 1) understand what we’re shouting to our dog and 2) make themselves understood to Ouzo, since we live in Colorado :) So we added English to his vocabulary
8. He knows the names of almost all his toys – and he has lots: dozens and dozens. Lately he’s been only getting maximum 10 at a time (we’re such cruel parents, I know) because of the risk of injury to humans walking in low light and stepping on squeaky things. Or half chewed cow hoofs – ouch!
9. Ouzo was the puppy from hell until he reached 1 year, he chewed so many things that it was a running joke at work to report what my monster puppy has destroyed the previous day. Jewelry – including an emerald bracelet – at least he only chewed the clasp so that was eventually replaced, clothes: underwear (only mine!), remote controls, toilet paper and napkins, sofa legs, a bread knife (we found it on our bed with the plastic handle well chewed – that was scary), shoe laces (these were usually severed while my shoes were lassoed western style all over the living room at breakneck speed, in hope of a good chase), and his worst deed: a bottle of aspirin – ended up costing us $800 in ER visit and follow up IV treatment – all while he didn’t have any bad consequences other than puking black disgusting staining medicinal charcoal all over our beige carpet. He almost never stole food, however. Proof he was a well fed pup - at least :)
Funny thing - after getting over that phase, now he's not much of a chewer, not even with tasty smoked bones, pig ears or raw hides :) We did find a type of bully sticks that he loves, so he's getting those from time to time.
10. He is a big boy for a Border Collie, about 23 inches last time I measured him – couple of years ago, and weighing 47 lbs. He grew fast – at 6.5 months he was already 44 lbs and then stayed at that weight until this year.
Explore - My 150th to be picked - Highest position: 495 on Monday, August 17, 2009