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Our little black cat, Baroness, has recently discovered how she can annoy our border collie lab mix Zeke. At Zeke's old home, he was allowed to chase cats. When we adopted him, within two days he had chased all of our cats up the lace curtains in the living room and into hiding. Baroness hid for two weeks in a closet. The cats have adjusted to him … read more

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Zeke is pretty good about not barking too much, but when he goes out to the back yard and wants to come in he does let us know. Also, if he trees a squirrel, he could bark at it for hours and we have to tell him "Zeke, no bark" or else he might disturb our neighbors. Right now he just saw the milk delivery person and had to bark at him. His favorit… read more

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Zeke apparently learned many tricks before we adopted him. He is very good about all of his tricks except when people come and he gets very excited. He loses all of his training and barely listens, and then like three minutes later he settles down and acts like a perfect angel. We just have to repeat "stay down" and he usually stops jumping up on p… read more

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Sometimes, when my family leaves to go participate in their extra curricular activities, I get bored and hungry and go through the trash. I know I'm not supposed to, but I can't resist the urge. So I have to wear my muzzle, which is like my least favorite thing ever when I do it, and now they have to lock me in the back porch with my bed, food and … read more