My Dog Chewie

Chewie  was born on June 26 2007 and is half Akita, half Labrador, Rottweiler and a couple of other breeds.

These are his parents with Hoot.

My former American neighbor and landlord (Hoot) was taking care of a local stray dog when the dog 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 12 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 one 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 a day later, 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) and chasing and being chased is still his favorite game.

-He has copied Max a lot and therefore used to to eat his food away from his bowl. He stopped doing that shortly after I moved into my own apartment in Februari 2011.

-He can be very protective and will let me know when he doesn’t trust someone. He is also a big wussy and can start barking whenever he sees something that wasn’t there before.

-He’s afraid of the sound of a empty garbage bag but goes into play mode when I put on 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 wild 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.

-Since 2010 his black fur is slowly turning brown and I wonder whether he’ll be fully brown/white in a few years.

-He used to chase down lizards in California 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.

Here are more pictures of Chewie that I just love.

P.s.: if you have checked out the rest of my website and if you are a Star Wars fan then you probably recognize his name.

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