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[lashae.yarbrough]

Hi everyone, I'm LaShae. Just a little about myself, I'm about on my way to college (yikes). My family has had owned a couple of dogs. When I was younger we adopted a purebred Lab from a family friend and we had named him Lyric. I was like 6 when we got him and he's still going strong with a little arthritis during the winter. He lives with my grandpa in Washington state. A couple years back we had adopted a lab boxer mix and we named him Uggie. Every dog has his own personality and I swear Uggie was a stubborn human child in a dog's body. Stubborn little (if you consider pushing 80 pounds of pure muslce little) punk. He would run off whenever he felt we weren't watching him. None the less he was the most lovable dog ever. I think it the intelligence of both breeds that made Uggie exceptionally smart. We had taught him to sit, lay, roll over, play dead, and play tag easily and we were able to just use hand signals like make a clenched fist and bring it to our shoulder to make him sit. Yes we taught him how to play tag. He became a hot commodity among the neighborhood kids after that. But he had an issue with eating stuff that wasn't ment to be eaten like bark and blanket stuffing. He started to eat the windowsill in our garage and we had to give him back to the shelter where we had adopted him. The vet there promised that he find him a good home and Uggie was eventually adopted by a family with a lot of foster children. One foster child would have seizures and the parents were looking for a well rounded dog that would gentle enough with the child. I like to joke that Uggie was soo gentle because he was brought up by three woman, my mom, my sister and I. Uggie was really gentle with the foster child and when the family adopted him, they got his array of toys and treats.