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Chewie  was born on June 26 2007 and is a mix between a Labrador, Chow Chow, Rottweiler and a couple of other breeds.

My former American neighbor and landlord (Hoot) was taking care of a local stray Chow Chow when the Chow Chow brought over a friend one day. A female pregnant friend to be precisely. So Hoot decided to take care of her of too. After about a couple of weeks she gave birth to 11 puppies of which 9 survived and Chewie was one of them.

After the puppies were born I just couldn’t help myself from dropping by at least twice a day.
From the beginning I helped with taking care of them and I even got them used to getting brushed and once they were old enough I helped with feeding them.
When they were about 4 weeks old, we got a call from our real estate agent that we could get the house we were interested in in about a month so we decided to take of the puppies. By that time I had already really gotten attached to them and knew them well so it wasn’t hard to pick out the one I wanted.

Chewie was one of the three puppies that were the most curious and playful and from that day on I focused especially on Chewie to get a even closer bond and I took him with me to meet Max so they could get used to each other.

We moved when he was 8 weeks old so once we were mostly settled in after a few days, I picked him up and he’s been with me ever since. After we filled for divorce I even took him with me to the Netherlands.

Some funny things about Chewie.

-He loves to sleep on his back.-

He used to love to chase Max (my ex mother-in-laws dog).

-He has copied Max a lot and therefore tends to eat his food away from his bowl.

-He’s very protective of me and is always following me around.He doesn’t seem to trust strange men we walk by when I walk him and will actually bark at them.

-He’s afraid of the sound of a empty garbage bag but challenges the vacuum cleaner.

-Whenever I give him a treat it looks likes he’ll bite my fingers off but he’s actually really careful.

-He tries to eat every bug he comes across.

-He has killed and chewed on 3 mice that I know off.

-He has a lot of different breeds in him and luckily he seems to have picked up their best characteristics.

-He chases down lizards and actually caught and killed a nearly 2 foot long one in the summer of 2008. He was generous enough to give it to me for which I thanked him and then distracted him so I could throw the poor thing away.

These are the pets he grew up with in America :
Casey

Max

Gato

I absolutely hate the fact that I had to leave them behind but Max is my ex-mother-in-laws, Casey loves my ex-husband best and I don’t want to rip the cats apart since Casey has been doing so much better ever since we got Gato.

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