beautifultruth
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This is our Dot. She was so smart and difficult. She passed away in December of 2018 but we still haven't recovered. She was such a presence in our family.
Some of her quirks:
*She herd us to bed every night! It was bedtime when Dot decided it was time. She'd bark at us and demand we go to bed.
*If you dared (DARED!) to fall asleep without giving her a blanket, she would pull yours off you while you slept. She had to have a blanket at night.
*She, in her old age (13), decided she wanted to start sleeping in a crate. After we brought in another dog (who was crate trained), Dot started sleeping in her crate. We had to buy Dot her own crate - She had no experience with a crate in her life!
*She wouldn't stay off the furniture. I ended up having to buy her her own couch (it was a dog-size couch). She loved that couch.
We miss her and I wanted to share her with this community. I recently discovered you all through another post on r/aww (I think). Now I get to see all these other Australian cattle dogs and it makes me so happy and also a little sad. We miss her.
*edited to add: I mean difficult in the most loving way possible. We found her quirks so charming and she made us laugh regularly.
Some of her quirks:
*She herd us to bed every night! It was bedtime when Dot decided it was time. She'd bark at us and demand we go to bed.
*If you dared (DARED!) to fall asleep without giving her a blanket, she would pull yours off you while you slept. She had to have a blanket at night.
*She, in her old age (13), decided she wanted to start sleeping in a crate. After we brought in another dog (who was crate trained), Dot started sleeping in her crate. We had to buy Dot her own crate - She had no experience with a crate in her life!
*She wouldn't stay off the furniture. I ended up having to buy her her own couch (it was a dog-size couch). She loved that couch.
We miss her and I wanted to share her with this community. I recently discovered you all through another post on r/aww (I think). Now I get to see all these other Australian cattle dogs and it makes me so happy and also a little sad. We miss her.
*edited to add: I mean difficult in the most loving way possible. We found her quirks so charming and she made us laugh regularly.