A little bit about Brewster

I loved this dog from the first time I met her when I started hanging out with Ben. I'm so glad that she loves me almost as much as she loves Ben (most dog loves no one as much as their original owner). She is a sweetheart and cuddly! She is actually really sensitive (gets butt hurt) and its very easy to read her emotions. I know that most of ya really don't want to know this, but right now she's in heat. So she's even more sensitive and really wants to cuddle all the time. She's been butt hurt that I've trying to keep her off the carpet and stay on the tile (easier to cleanup). I feel bad that there's really nothing I can do for her.

(They both fell asleep like this)

She loves people and whenever she meets new people, she goes sniffs them and then leans on them :-) (her way of showing affection). Dogs on the other hand, she doesn't get along with. Whenever she sees a dog that she doesn't know, she'll start growling viciously, which Ben and I find funny because she really is just a sweet dog once she knows them. However, if the other dog is not submissive and she's doesn't have a leash on or she takes the leash out of our hands, she can be pretty fierce. But if we know we're going to meet a dog, we make sure they're both submissive before having them meet. Which is hard on walks, because you can't really just take the time to meet e-v-e-r-y s-i-n-g-l-e dog.

(My dad and Brewster, its kinda hard to tell but she's leaning on him)

So far, we got Brewster to get along with my parents dog and my brother's dog (kind of, they don't see each other very often so we have to re-introduce them). We have some friends, Tom and Laura, that have a doberman, Delilah, that has a very similar behavior to Brewster (loves people, doesn't like dogs) and we hang out with them quite a bit, but we always leave Brewster home. But this last time that we brought Brewster and they met, but we didn't let them hang out just yet.

(My parents dog, Sampson, and Brewster)

Recently, I've realized that she might get separation anxiety. I've noticed that if we don't really pay attention to her when we leave (telling her bye or petting her) or if we leave in a hurry (mostly when its both), she'll find something to get revenge (not even kidding!). The most recent thing that she has done was taking the butter dish off the counter and licking it clean (she LOVES butter), which is funny because it had been sitting there all week and she chose the time we left in a hurry! Other times, she has gone through our garbage that we have in the bedroom/bathroom and make a mess of that. The biggest thing she has done is ripping apart the kitchen trash bag (which is the majority of where trash goes) and spreading it out as much as she could. Most of it was right by the bag, but we found pieces in the other rooms. Ben and I were pretty mad at first, but looking back at it, I just laugh :-)!

(Brewster's Revenge: The Kitchen Trash Bag)

She can do some tricks... She can hold a dog biscuit on her nose and wait for the "OK!" (my parents dog is way too hyper to that!). This other trick is really cute that Ben taught her, Ben will ask her "Would you rather be married or dead?" and she'll lay on her back! Haha! Although she'll usually only do this if there are new people around, which I don't really get. I really want to get her to "army crawl"... she'll do it for a foot or two but then she gives up. Another couple random things about her: she loves sliding on our tile, she'll run back and forth on it and sometimes almost runs into the wall and such, loves giving smooches, loves playing in the snow, loves rolling in the dirt; she hates going into the water, Ben thinks he traumatized her when she little when Ben threw her in the lake and she sunk to the bottom before popping up out the water. I'll have to see if she can get over that when we go to the lake this summer. Any suggestions on how to get her to like it or at least go into it?

("OK!")

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(Her ending of the "married or dead" trick)

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("Smooches!")

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(Playin' in the snow)

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(Covered in dirt after rolling in it :-0)

One of my favorite things about her is that she'll smile when she's really excited. Not the open mouth, tongue hanging out, it looks like the dog is smiling... But she'll actually clench her teeth together and widen her lips and show her teeth, just like people. It is soo cute! I finally got a picture a couple of days ago, but she's usually too excited to keep still long enough to snap a picture.

(She smiles like Elvis)

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(Can you see the resemblance??)

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I LOVE OUR FAMILY!