Our GSD/ Husky Mix Acer's Pictures

by Nancy Ames
(Wichita, Ks.)

Acer is a beautiful dog, of course, so I decided to post a couple of pictures. He loves to play in my garden and watch my pond fish swim around. he loves water but has not tried to go in the pond yet, and I hope he never does!

I have a path going along my flowers and he actually follows it! So cute! We live in Kansas so we do get snow, which he loves. at least he did last January when he was tiny and his belly was in the snow.

Acer is 28 inches tall at his shoulder and 80 pounds, so he is getting big, the funny thing is he loves small things, like cats and tiny dogs and small children! My boys are grown so it is odd that he loves the 3 year old next door! And he plays very gentle with small anythings, its very cute.

But when it comes to his big "brother" Rocky he is very rough, we monitor them so Rocky is not hurt. Acer is 20 pounds heavier and 5 inches taller than Rocky so we have to watch them, not really sure what else to do. My hope is for everyone to have a wonderful animal family member or member's like we do. Acer is a GSD/ Husky mix

Acer, My GSD/Husky mix

by Nancy Ames
(Wichita, Ks.)

We adopted Acer from our local humane society in January 2011. He was 8 weeks old, and 15 pounds.

We have had him in all kinds of training classes and he recently achieved his CGC certificate. We are so proud of him. He is a very special and smart dog.

His start was not so wonderful, the people who had his mother took the whole litter in to the humane society at 1 month old, I was shocked, but they fostered them and adopted them all out.

Acer has grown a lot and turned 1 year on November 4 2011. He loves to play games and can find his toys when you hide them. He also has his stuffed things he sleeps with, it's so cute!

He has grown a lot since we adopted him, he is 80 pounds and 28 inches tall at his shoulder. He may not be huge but I am 4' 11" so he is big to me!

I think he may have a protective streak as he became very upset on a walk one day when a strange man walked up behind us a bit to close and Acer let the man know he was unhappy, he did not try to bite but he was vocal!

I think he is beautiful, of course, but one day I had a lady stop on the street while we walked to tell me how much she thought of him! I was floored really.

Acer loves our cats but I am not sure how he would feel about strange ones. He has a "brother" he is a German shorthair pointer, they get along great.

He loves to play ball and will go longer than I can, and he is really good at it. He returns and can catch in mid air as he loves to jump after it. For a big dog he is very agile, I think.

Acer kinda talks like a husky but he also has a very deep GSD voice as well I think he is so funny and cute I could not imagine being without him. I have R.A and he knows when I dont feel so good he gives me a look, he knows, and he checks on me each morning. He is wonderful!