Name: Whizzer
Sex: Spayed Female
Age: 10 years
Breed: GSD/Border Collie/ Yellow Lab
Location: Fraser Valley, in Beautiful British Columbia, Canada
Likes: Treats, Car rides, Riding the ATV, Camping, My pets, Bunny Poop, Walks and lots of Love
Dislikes: Dogs, Baths, Bad weather and Veggies
Whizzer's Story: From What Mom knows....
We adopted Whizz about 4 years ago, she'd originally been adopted by a young lady from a mother who couldn't keep her when she was a puppy. Living with her first family Whizz lost a back toe after falling through a plate glass table. It was sewn back on but not perfectly, and she now has her 'special' toe.
The young woman ended up moving somewhere she couldn't have a dog. Whizz ended up staying with the young womans parents, then to another friends place, then another and was passed around for a quite some time. Also somewhere in that time she was brutally attacked by two large dogs, and since then has been aggressive to other dogs.
I was told Whizzer's last owner had taken her to Alaska where she was used as a sled dog during a vacation... but being the smart dog that she is, she figured out how to keep up with the other dogs and not have to pull. She also would lay in the snow so her feet wouldn't get cold.
Living with the parents of this young woman, Whizz never had to go outside to use the bathroom during bad weather, the mother would set up a carpet in the garage for her to use. So now Whizz will not go outside to pee/poo if the weather is bad (Too Hot, too cold, rainy or snowy), we have to shovel her a path in the snow to some grass, otherwise she will try and hold it for days.
Whizz sufferers from Dog Aggression, is very dominant and dominant aggressive and has separation anxity. She's not allowed to roam our house when we're not home, and has her own bed room. She was able to leap a 6 foot tall fence when we got her, and jumped out of a third story window at her Grandparents cabin one year. She also jumped through our screened tiny camper window which is over 7 feet from the ground.
We have taken to her to one on one classes with a trainer that specializes in dominant aggressive German shepherds, and agility classes where she did really, really well and enjoyed.
I still try and get her out with other dogs, but the first reaction she has to them is protect herself and us.
After the other dog figures out Whizz is a bit of a "Female Dog" and they ignore her things seem to go much better, and she may even have a dog friend by the end of the day.
So though she has many great qualities as you have read, she can also be a handful. But tis the life of a dog. :)
