I am posting this for my roommate she wrote this and has posted this on hoobly I'm just copying and pasting for her.
Available for adoption is a 5 year old male Red Heeler (Australian Cattle Dog)/Boxer mix named Anubis.
At the time of adoption he will have visited the vet and have updated shots. Anubis will come with his food & water bowls with a stand, his harness and leash, his bed which I made for him, toys, and any food or treats I still have (I just bought him a new bag of Pedigree dog food at Costco on 2/21, and he has a lot of various treats).
About Anubis (From us):
Anubis is a very energetic, intelligent dog. He is very very food oriented. He is, of course, house trained and knows commands such as sit, stay, come, roll over ("over!"), speak and paw. He will do any of these nearly immediately without hesitation if there is a treat involved. If he gets excited, don't expect much, unfortunately. In most cases he will respond to sit without reward. He is intelligent; very manipulative. You must be certain to establish who is the boss. We tried, to little avail. Anubis has had too many homes to think anybody is the boss except him. He seems to have separation anxiety issues (example: we were doing electrical work in hallway, so we put him in the living room with a gate, and he WHINES and HOWLS until he can see us again). Anubis needs somebody patient who can spend time with him. We all work all day long, and he is at home alone. He causes no trouble at all when he's home alone, actually. We're surprised at this, given his energy level and curiosity. He is largely very friendly and protective, and very possessive (it seems, especially of me).
Now, Anubis has a story, and I want to make sure anybody reading this knows it, UNLIKE what his former owner did to me.
In early summer of '08, my roommate and I were looking for dog to adopt. We came across an ad on Craigslist advertising a "Pharaoh Hound" for immediate adoption. The story we got was that the couple was forced to move from Ft. Campbell, KY, to Annapolis, MD, to avoid the husband's 5th deployment to Iraq. Given the change in the cost of living, they could only bring one dog, so they made the heart wrenching decision to adopt out Anubis.
(They named him Anubis because they SWORE he was a pharaoh hound. I told them that they were off their rocker. Not only does he LOOK like a red heeler/boxer, but his papers say that's what he is. She said well we thought he was half Basenji. Give me a break.)
But I digress.
The wife told me that he was VERY good, trained, VERY good with kids and people, VERY energetic and would benefit from either a fenced in yard or frequent walks. She said he runs away sometimes, but always returns within 10 minutes (I said unacceptable). She said he was very protective, and very good with other dogs as long as he could be the alpha male. She said "I hope you and your roommate don't play fight or anything, because Anubis will not allow it". She said they allowed table scraps (also unacceptable). She begged me to please call her first if I ever had any problems with him, which I thought was weird. The original ad said if they could not adopt him out, they would be forced to put him down, as they had no other home for him.
Our first impression was good, so we decided to give him a home.
Available for adoption is a 5 year old male Red Heeler (Australian Cattle Dog)/Boxer mix named Anubis.
At the time of adoption he will have visited the vet and have updated shots. Anubis will come with his food & water bowls with a stand, his harness and leash, his bed which I made for him, toys, and any food or treats I still have (I just bought him a new bag of Pedigree dog food at Costco on 2/21, and he has a lot of various treats).
About Anubis (From us):
Anubis is a very energetic, intelligent dog. He is very very food oriented. He is, of course, house trained and knows commands such as sit, stay, come, roll over ("over!"), speak and paw. He will do any of these nearly immediately without hesitation if there is a treat involved. If he gets excited, don't expect much, unfortunately. In most cases he will respond to sit without reward. He is intelligent; very manipulative. You must be certain to establish who is the boss. We tried, to little avail. Anubis has had too many homes to think anybody is the boss except him. He seems to have separation anxiety issues (example: we were doing electrical work in hallway, so we put him in the living room with a gate, and he WHINES and HOWLS until he can see us again). Anubis needs somebody patient who can spend time with him. We all work all day long, and he is at home alone. He causes no trouble at all when he's home alone, actually. We're surprised at this, given his energy level and curiosity. He is largely very friendly and protective, and very possessive (it seems, especially of me).
Now, Anubis has a story, and I want to make sure anybody reading this knows it, UNLIKE what his former owner did to me.
In early summer of '08, my roommate and I were looking for dog to adopt. We came across an ad on Craigslist advertising a "Pharaoh Hound" for immediate adoption. The story we got was that the couple was forced to move from Ft. Campbell, KY, to Annapolis, MD, to avoid the husband's 5th deployment to Iraq. Given the change in the cost of living, they could only bring one dog, so they made the heart wrenching decision to adopt out Anubis.
(They named him Anubis because they SWORE he was a pharaoh hound. I told them that they were off their rocker. Not only does he LOOK like a red heeler/boxer, but his papers say that's what he is. She said well we thought he was half Basenji. Give me a break.)
But I digress.
The wife told me that he was VERY good, trained, VERY good with kids and people, VERY energetic and would benefit from either a fenced in yard or frequent walks. She said he runs away sometimes, but always returns within 10 minutes (I said unacceptable). She said he was very protective, and very good with other dogs as long as he could be the alpha male. She said "I hope you and your roommate don't play fight or anything, because Anubis will not allow it". She said they allowed table scraps (also unacceptable). She begged me to please call her first if I ever had any problems with him, which I thought was weird. The original ad said if they could not adopt him out, they would be forced to put him down, as they had no other home for him.
Our first impression was good, so we decided to give him a home.
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