Chloe
Chloe was rescued off the street by the KC HSUS
and housed at the Kansas City , Kansas facility
while hoping her owners would come to her rescue. Instead
she was rescued by a Mo-Kan foster family and has fit right
in her new foster home in Liberty, Mo.
Since her name was not known, her new name, after much discussion,
is Chloe and it fits her very well.
Chloe is a very high energy Border Collie/Blue Heeler mix with
an interest in playing with anybody in her
family that is ready to go. She likes to play ball, Frisbee
or just plain old wrestling with her sisters. Snow is a lot of fun to run and roll in.
She is about a one year old with a puppy playful attitude that
has shown a willingness to learn anything Mom and Dad take the time to teach her. She can sit, shake,
stay and come to her name when called. We
are working on lay down, catch a ball or treat in the air,
and walking on the leash without pulling. She
is doing better with these every day. She
has a very high food drive and will do anything for a treat.
Since she eats her food so fast we have taught
her to eat a little and then sit until we give her some more
food and the she can come to the bowl for more. She now does this almost all on her own.
We have been working on her house and human manners which are
coming along very nicely. She is now doing very well on her trips into the house where she investigates
everything for food and plays and wrestles with her sisters. She will do a little counter
surfing if left alone but ceases immediately when caught.
She does not have good manners yet with our cat and she has
no experience around young kids.
She is not completely house broken but continues to make improvement
when she is allowed in the
house area. Fortunately she does not defecate in her pen or
in the house at all. Strictly a little piddler and quite often that is from getting excited.
Chloe is looking for a very high energy home where she can
get a lot of play time with her new family. She
gets along well with other dogs and takes direction from a
dominant dog very well if she gets too rambunctious.
She is not much for setting on the couch and cuddling with
someone but she has shown some potential for that when she gets really tired from playing.
She stays well in her pen and doesn’t bark a lot but
does not care a lot for small kennels. We
think she is ready for a high energy home with some family and
dog friends to play with every day.
Update: 4/7/2010 Well it is amazing what a few months of hard work by a border collie can do. Chloe is now just a regular high drive Border Collie with a desire to play and run in the back yard with her foster sisters and parents.
She has a high treat drive and loves to play and learn new tricks. Her routine has changed only in that she now comes upstairs every night an plays with everyone in our great room. You might say "If Chloe plays then everyone plays." Once everyone is played out and she is bored she heads down the steps and goes to her kennel for the night on her own.
She knows to go outside and do her business when in the house and what a breakthrough, there.
She recently had a visit from three large black Labs and did very well with them in her back yard. She tried to play with them a couple of times but they were just not interested in her antics.
We are now getting her to meet and greet everyone coming to the house and she is doing very nicely with that exercise. Just in the last few days she has met the Lab owners, the plumber, and a visit from my daughter and son-in law with their Aussie/golden mix. Kudos to all and especially Chloe fo a job well done.
A little barking, a few treats and anyone is her new best friend. She is still showing some of her puppy traits but that is why we all love puppies ,right !!!!!
Chloe is still looking for her agility, fly-ball or other activity oriented forever home with maybe one or two other dogs to play with everyday.
Oh, yeah and a loving family to top it off with would be kind of nice, too.
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