Almost at her wit’s end and having suffered multiple bruises with broken skin wounds from the pup’s inappropriate behavior (dewclaws getting caught on papery thin skin), my grandma was going to re-home Ash and find a ranch for her to live on and I wish we had done that then. However, my sibling said though she couldn’t go with him to college for the first year living on campus, he still wanted her. I was asked to take her until after his college was completed and planned to train her for her owner so he would enjoy having her and not have to do any training (since she hadn’t had any up to that first year plus). So she came to Flagstaff with Bella and me in the Fall of 2012.

She joined Bella and me on our adventures-from camping to walks in the forest to Yappy Hours and fostering. Like all of the foster dogs and dogs we watched, she joined us in learning tricks, our photo taking, studio training, practicing Agility with a local club, and a little Frisbee.

I trained her through her Canine Good Citizen and up through a couple of Trick Dog Titles, finding out later that apparently her owner didn’t want me to do any training with her.

Training was still pretty intermittent-especially after Kronos joined the family in the Winter of that same year Ash came up to Flagstaff with Bella and me. And yet she learned so much. She had her first professional photo shoot and traveled across the country for BlogPaws in Tennessee. She achieved her Canine Good Citizen and Advanced Trick Dog Titles. She attended Kyra Sundance’s Do More With Your Dog Trick Training Workshop for socialization and loved working with food-she is extremely food driven and will work with anyone who has food. When it became clear she was staying with us indefinitely, her name was changed to Terra.

This Aussie is a sassy diva-very high prey drive, high energy, very bossy with other dogs (especially females), and an independent girl although she absolutely loves giving people face kisses and having them scratch her butt while she sits on them.