My name is Cowboy!

We adopted Cowboy in March. There wasn’t much known about him other than that he was found on a farm near Stockton (the shelter we adopted him from was near Stockton). We live in Sacramento.

He is very smart and trainable (motivated by food). He will not work for our family because I have two kids - 10 and 7 - and he gets very excited when they play. His excitement scares them too much, sadly. He does get mouthy but he has never bitten any one. My kids, though, just don’t feel comfortable with the mouthiness. I’ve taken him to dog parks several times and he has been fine with other dogs aside from the occasional growl at bigger dogs (he seems to be feel more threatened by them).

In short, I think the optimal home for him would be someone with older kids and no other dogs. Cowboy is very loyal and likely attach very quickly to his care taker. Bonus if you have the time and energy to really train him as I think he would respond well to it.