BUNNY

We adopted "Princess" in April 2005 and renamed her Bunny. She was listed on the website as "large" but she only weighs 75 pounds, so she seems petite to me.

Bunny had wanderlust when we got her, always eyeing the door and under the gate for the first few months, but got over that. I can walk out the front door now and leave it open and she will sit waiting until I walk back in. She didn't know how to walk on a leash before and training her to walk with me was a lot of work, tripping on her and ensuring she let me walk ahead. That tired both of us out, but she is great on a walk now, happy to be part of our pack.

She is people friendly, but will try to jump on and dominate small females and children (we don't have kids). I guess that may be one reason why her other two homes didn't work out. She will always behave if one of us is with her, so we make sure she never meets a new person without one of us present.

She continues to have separation anxiety. When we first took her home, my husband was working from home and never gone more than a few hours, so that helped a lot. We tried to crate train her and she freaked out one day, damaging a front toe. She got to get some cosmetic surgery after that incident. She likes to go to the vet, so that's a good thing. We leave her home everyday now with our other dog all day and she is fine. I never leave her outside when we are gone because she can really jump and I don't want to take a chance. They are happy in the house. If we have to take the male to the vet, she has to go, too, or she slobbers all over the windows and doors.

She LOVES her toys and will gather up all of them until she has a pile of 10 or so on her bed and then she chews on one while hoarding the rest and the male sits and looks sad from a distance. She spends most of her time guarding her toys from the world, watching out the floor to ceiling windows on the back of the house. Silly girl.

Linda and Nick