She has been an absolute joy! She is so smart. We have taught her a few basic parlor tricks ("Bang" = roll on her back with legs up, playing dead), and when we tell her to find the kids by name, she will do it. Daisy has also impressed us by bringing items to different members of the family by name.
Mostly, Daisy absolutely loves to go fishing! We take her at least once or twice a week and she has just started swimming in the past two weeks. She likes to go for bike rides and running but could live without the dog park. She's a great traveler who loves car rides. We drove up to Lake Tahoe and she had the best time chasing squirrels!
Here are Daisy's idiosyncrasies: since she was tiny, Daisy has liked to pick up objects and pocket them in her mouth. She doesn't eat them, she just keeps them in her cheeks for later.. For example, we were running a few months ago and I thought I saw her pick something up off of the sidewalk. She wasn't chewing anything, so we kept our pace. A few blocks later, she drops an OLIVE out of her mouth. In April, Daisy had been in the back yard and scratched to come inside. She looked very proud of herself and I could see something hanging out of her mouth. I told her to "drop it" and she looked down, then up at me, then dropped a baby bird out of her mouth on the floor.. I picked it up, saw that it was no longer alive and got rid of it. When I returned, she was avoiding eye contact with me and walking in circles, a tell tale sign that she's up to something. Her tail was wagging and I asked her "What is it?" She sat, looked at me and dropped ANOTHER baby bird out of her mouth and started jumping around, thrilled with herself!! That's right, she had pocketed not one, but TWO baby birds in her cheeks! This is just quintessential Daisy!
Daisy is the sweetest dog. We have gotten so many compliments on her beauty and her demeanor! Our vet and her staff keep telling us how wonderful and calm she is, especially for a pointer! We know that we love her very much and love how affectionate, loyal, smart and sweet she is! Thank you, thank you so much for our precious baby girl!!
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