Name: Ellie - 5.5 y/o
How long has Ellie been in the family? 5 years
Family Members: Alicia & Drew, Dog Siblings: Cosmo (12 week old Boxer) & Conrad (11 y/o boxer mix- foster)
Professions: Alicia- Process development at a pharmaceutical company
Drew-Manufacturing at pharmaceutical company
Location: Frederick, CO.
Nicknames: Ellie Belly, Sugar Bugger, Baby girl
5 of the best words/phrases that describe Ellie?
- Vocal
- Social
- Loving
- Snuggly
- Food!
What makes Ellie unique? Ellie loves to talk to you and tell you how she is feeling. When she gets happy she will make a moaning sound. Some people don’t understand that she is just talking to you instead of growling. She does it the most when you are rubbing her ears in the right spot and she tells you how good it feels.
Ellie loves to roll on her back for belly rubs!
Rescue Story: The information that I know about her before she came into my home is a mystery. She had a broken tale when she came to me and the vet thinks it got slammed in a door when she was a puppy. I have had her since she was 6 months old. At the time, I had an older boxer and was considering getting another dog. I honestly didn’t think about getting any sort of pit or pit mix, but getting Ellie was the best decision.
To stat at the beginning my little brother had returned to my mother’s house with this little puppy in his arms and said that someone dropped her off at the dog park and just drove off so he wasn’t going to leave her there. His girlfriend at the time was going to take her as her own dog, but needed her grandmothers’ approval first. I told my brother right away after I met Ellie that if his girlfriend could not keep her I would take her. The next day my brother calls me and tells me that I would need to take Ellie. I was so excited! Once I had her I took her to a vet just to have her checked out and get shots going since I didn’t have any background information on her. At the vet, they wanted to check to see if she was microchipped, and scanned her. The vet tech started writing down the name that registered on the chip and it turned out to be my brothers. So, long story short…my little brother adopted her from a shelter and didn’t know how to tell my family that he decided to do this. I saved her from both the shelter and from an unfit human parent. I am over the moon in love with this dog and I couldn’t have asked for a better companion than her.
Ellie in her forever home.
What is your favorite pastime as a family? Ellie’s favorite pasttime is to go to the horse barn with me. I have 2 horses and she has been going to the barn with me since she was a puppy. She loves to go and interact with the people and other dogs that go to the barn. Her favorite type of person are children. She thinks they are the perfect height for her to kiss right on the face and then she will turn over and show her belly because she wants them to love on her.
What is life like since you rescued Ellie? Life with Ellie is so enjoyable. My girl has a slew of health problems ranging from kidney disease to allergies, but I love her anyway. She must have special food for her kidneys and shots to keep her allergies at bay, but I will happily do it for my baby girl. I’m so grateful to have a dog like Ellie that lets me bring in random dogs for a week to months at a time. I have been fostering dogs since the beginning of 2017 and we have had at least 10 dogs come through our home and Ellie has welcomed each one of them. She especially loves when we foster puppies and she gets to act as their mother for a few weeks. When I got her, I had an older boxer that she grew up with and loved dearly up until his passing this September. She has mourned his loss deeply and was seeking companionship in our long-term foster dog Conrad. My husband and I recently adopted a 9-week-old boxer puppy and it is so nice to see Ellie want to play again. She continues to love the foster dogs we bring into the house and acts as a great mother figure to our new addition to the family. On top of that she is gorgeous with her brindle coat and light brown eyes!
Photographers Note: I met Alicia and Ellie at the horse barn where Alicia keeps her horses. The setting was just beautiful, mostly flat prairie land and then a gorgeous view of the mountains to the West. When I arrived they came out of the barn to greet me and watching Ellie you can tell she is used to that job..greeter. Every place we went, it was like she was showing me around, taking us on a tour of her barn! She is just such a love bug, every chance she got she was rolling on her back to get some belly rubs from me. I mean it was the least I could do, I was taking her from her social time around the barn! The best was when we finished up and we were cutting through the barn to go back to my car. We came across two other dogs and she went running up to greet them. She even has her own doggie social circle there!