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Meet Dixie, a known littermate of Jax. I posted a few days back in regards to "reuniting" littermates. Funny thing... the dog I had found on Craigslist that I thought could be a littermate of Jax wasn't, but shortly after, I'm at the dog park and this woman comes straight for Jax and loudly questions who he belongs to. "IS THAT JAX?!" Turns out she has Dixie, the sister I knew existed because Jax's previous owner even told me he knew someone with her. This was the lady, though she didn't have Dixie with her at the park that day. Anyway, we exchanged numbers with intentions to link up sometime with both dogs to see how they interact and to fill my curiosity as to how similar they look.
That day came today. And I've since taken Dixie home for the night and am considering taking her permanently, as Amanda (the lady with her) has just been fostering Dixie since November. Dixie escaped the yard of the previous owner several times and each time made her way to Amanda eventually, and the final time, apparently the woman didn't notice for 2-3 days that Dixie was missing and then tells Amanda that she was just going to dump her off somewhere when her husband deploys anyway. Amanda quickly took her in and has somewhat been trying to find her a home with little success.
So meet Dixie, the Husky x Blue Heeler (that's the claim of Amanda's vet, "if you put a gun to my head and make me pick a mix"). She does have heeler-like specks in her white patches on her nose and paws (unlike Jax), though the DNA test on Jax didn't show any heeler (though who knows? Those aren't perfect).
Oh, funny thing of this picture with them both playing tug. So Jax had been playing tug with a dog half his size, and pretty obviously letting the other "win" as Jax was being pulled around and letting the other dog do most of the tugging. However, once we got Jax vs Dixie, it was game on. They both went at it 100%, and growling the entire time. The dog park went fairly quiet as most of the people there began turning to observe, as they were rather loud and it went a good while. Jax eventually won and all was well with the world.
That day came today. And I've since taken Dixie home for the night and am considering taking her permanently, as Amanda (the lady with her) has just been fostering Dixie since November. Dixie escaped the yard of the previous owner several times and each time made her way to Amanda eventually, and the final time, apparently the woman didn't notice for 2-3 days that Dixie was missing and then tells Amanda that she was just going to dump her off somewhere when her husband deploys anyway. Amanda quickly took her in and has somewhat been trying to find her a home with little success.
So meet Dixie, the Husky x Blue Heeler (that's the claim of Amanda's vet, "if you put a gun to my head and make me pick a mix"). She does have heeler-like specks in her white patches on her nose and paws (unlike Jax), though the DNA test on Jax didn't show any heeler (though who knows? Those aren't perfect).


Oh, funny thing of this picture with them both playing tug. So Jax had been playing tug with a dog half his size, and pretty obviously letting the other "win" as Jax was being pulled around and letting the other dog do most of the tugging. However, once we got Jax vs Dixie, it was game on. They both went at it 100%, and growling the entire time. The dog park went fairly quiet as most of the people there began turning to observe, as they were rather loud and it went a good while. Jax eventually won and all was well with the world.