Cassiopeia (Cassie)

by Stephen Bowerman
(Wasilla, Alaska USA)

Wheres that German Shepherd ?

This is a picture of Cassie laying around. She has been a pistol since the day I brought her home. Our German Shepherd that's 8, adopted her right from the first time she saw her. Cassie is very sweet tempered but she does have a mind of her own and has taken charge of every toy in the house. You can find her either stealing the Shepherds toys right from her mouth or piling them all in one pile then laying on top of them!

Nothing she does is done at a walk speed either, everything is full speed ahead. She takes steps 4 at a time going both directions, is already trying to figure ways to be into everything. She learned the second day that she can open cabinet doors and when we got up one morning she had emptied my wifes pots and pans from the cabinet. She is also a shoe mover and every morning ten minutes is needed to find two shoe's that are the same.

The last thing I will say and I think this is really remarkable. The first morning after we got her we let her out the front door. Our paper was in the middle of the yard in orange plastic. She went straight to the paper, picked it up and came back to the door wagging her tail and just as pleased with herself as she could be. That became her morning job and has been that way since. She is very smart and I love the Bouvier breed more each day because they never quit learning.