Collette is a very sweet and loving dog, who loves her current family but absolutely adores and prefers men! The shelter assumed she has had 2-3 litters of pups in the past, most likely bred back to back, and was a little over a year when she was adopted. She has been with her current owner for about 8 months.

There is also signs of past abuse her owner has noticed. Sometimes when presented with a new object, she will bark and growl in fear or run away from the item. But when the item is placed on the ground and she is given a chance to sniff it she quickly gets over her fear. Sometimes the broom is still an object she stares at with suspicion though.

She loves someone who can wrestle and play tug of war, loves playing soccer and having you throw a stick for hours (the bigger the stick the better! She will even help you pull a branch off the tree). She also enjoys nothing more than getting to zoom around off leash.

She is very intelligent and wants to be good, just needs a firm person to correct her when she makes mistakes.

She loves to be involved in your life, every second of every day, including having her teeth brushed, her “makeup” put on (a clean fluffy brush pet over her face), and getting lint rolled. She wants to be where her pack and people are and will let her displeasure be known through very amusing sounds when blocked by a gate or door, or locked in her kennel.

She has so much love to give, often showing that love through her muscles. She needs someone with a yard and energy so she can release her inner tornado and Tasmanian devil. She has gone running with her owners friends several times and loves to keep pace and hike with them. A water dog she is not so far, still being scared of waves and big bodies of water. She will stay in the tub when given a bath, but will stare at you with the biggest betrayed puppy eyes you’ve ever seen.

She really wants to get along with other dogs but is still learning to not match negative energy when a dog shows it to her first. She has made great strides in her reactivity and gets along very well with her two foster brothers (smaller, older and calmer) and would do best with very calm or smaller dogs.

She loves to chew on things and her favorite ones are water buffalo horns and sticks. She also has a passion for recycling and will enjoy any plastic she might find, so keep and eye out and recycle the right way.

If you give her a stuff animal be prepared for it to be gutted within seconds. She knows not to eat the stuffing, but loves tearing it out and making quite the artistic mess.

She loves to wiggle her whole body when meeting someone new or greeting you when you get home. She has learned that jumping is not okay and will instead now rub herself all over your legs like a cat.

She is still working on being a perfect dog on the leash, she struggles with pulling when over excited or seeing another dog. But when calmed down walks very very well. She loves to snuggle and be tucked into blankets snug as a bug in a rug.

She has all the good qualities this breed has and just needs a little more training and understanding to overcome the traumas and abuse from her past, though she has already made incredible improvements from the time of her rescue. She is loved very deeply and if her current owner could give Collette the environment she needs to be successful, she would happily keep her.