Meet Cassie!

Hear ye! hear ye! We proudly introduce to this tiny corner of the blogging world, our newest addition to the family, Cassie!

Cassie is our second rescue adopted from That’ll Do Border Collie Rescue. You may recall we adopted Bandit from TDBCR in November 06. Both Bandit and Cassie come from the same foster home in West Vancouver. I don’t have permission to mention her name so we’ll just call her Sandy. Sandy is an awesome foster mom and it’s thanks to her that we have Cassie. Sandy was hesitant to contact us about Cassie because she knew that Dixie had crossed the Rainbow Bridge earlier this summer. Somehow Sandy knew that Cassie would be just right for us and Bandit and boy was she right.

Cassie is just 9 months old. She’s a border collie cross (probably Aussie Shepherd), although if you met some of her siblings you’d call her pure border collie as some of them are classic black & whites. Cassie’s coloring is definitely unusual for a BC but that’s where it ends: she’s smart as a whip and full of BC energy. She came to us more or less fully trained: house broken, excellent recall, sit, lie down, stay, shake-a-paw, etc.

Bandit is taking her time accepting Cassie as her new sister but when she feels like it, it’s Battle Dogs®! We’ve had decent weather each day since Cassie came home this past Saturday so we’ve been able to go for a walk along the river every day. Cassie is great on or off leash. It’s real nice to have two dogs again I must admit. There’s been a huge hole in my heart since Dixie passed but I think Cassie will help to fill the void.