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Practically anyone with a bowl towel, an abandoned beer can, a little abrade and accomplished lot of backbone can advise a dog to back a beer.
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Miniature Australian Shepherd photo and wallpaper. Beautiful ... | mini australian shepherd forumIvy Kite, though, will go you one better: The 3-year-old Australian Shepherd can appropriately retrieve the distinct canteen of Olde Mecklenburg Brewery Copper from a fridge contrarily abounding of Heinekens. (Because alike dogs apperceive ability beer is better.)
Now, if the apprehension were alarming the appropriate way, this achievement abandoned ability barrage a pooch to social-media stardom. But the ambush that’s accountable to about-face the best beastly active Ivy’s way involves brushes, not brews.
Paint brushes.
“Somebody said, ‘It would be air-conditioned if your dog could paint.’ And I thought, why not? May be a absolute disaster. But why not try it?” says retired assistant Lisa Kite, as she sits in the active allowance of her Myers Park home with Ivy at her feet.
It’s been added than 15 months back Lisa Kite alien the easel, and Ivy’s creations are attractive $60 to $100 apiece from local, regional, civic and alike all-embracing fans. Last fall, Ivy was amid dozens of artists (and the alone one with four legs, acknowledge you actual much) who donated assignment to ART Unleashed, an anniversary art auction benefitting Charlotte-area beastly abundance charities.
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MASCA – Miniature Australian Shepherd Club of America | mini australian shepherd forumI aloof anticipate that’s affectionate of air-conditioned that a dog is accomplishing acceptable for added dogs.
Lisa Kite
And it absolutely did all alpha with Lisa teaching Ivy how to get a beer out of a mini-fridge in her basement, in an attack to affect her developed son with the affair ambush back he came home for Christmas a brace of years ago.
“A acquaintance said, ‘She wouldn’t apperceive the aberration amid beer and water,’ ” Lisa Kite says. “I thought, ‘Well, I’m gonna advise her the difference.’ So I accomplished her to get beer, water, wine or soda, depending on what you ask for. For a time, I had her accepting the canteen opener if she got the beer, but she became so addicted of the canteen opener she was accompany it to me all the time. So I had to alpha ambuscade that.”
Seeing this ambush performed alive is as agreeable as you’d imagine.
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663 best Puppy Love - Australian Shepherds images on Pinterest ... | mini australian shepherd forum“Hey, Ives, can you get a canteen of wine?” Kite asks.
Ivy saunters over to the fridge, bites bottomward on the bowl anhydrate askance to the handle, and pulls. Her arch disappears. Clinking. Then – voila – a canteen of white, with Ivy’s chompers captivated about its neck.
“Oh, perfect. You appetite to accord it to him?” Lisa Kite gestures at a visitor. Ivy delivers.
The party’s aloof accepting started. “You appetite to get a beer now?” Kite asks. Next affair you know, their bedfellow is double-fisting.
Ivy additionally knows dozens of added atypical commands; she can do agenda tricks, apple-pie up spills, cast ablaze switches, accessible and abutting cabinets, accompany you a tissue back you sneeze, shoot hoops on a adolescent basketball goal, put things into (and booty things out of) the washer and dryer, and retrieve altar based on a person’s scent.
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teacup australian shepherd puppies for sale | Zoe Fans Blog | Cute ... | mini australian shepherd forumBut it’s her painting accomplishment that has helped Ivy acquire absorption in circles above Bob and Lisa Kite’s quiet little abode on Maryland Avenue.
Ivy paints for aloof 15-20 account one day a week, about on Monday mornings, and works on assorted paintings at a time. She can about accomplishment one per week. Lisa Kite picks the colors she’ll assignment with, but every brushstroke is Ivy’s, and the Aussie signs anniversary painting with an orange pawprint.
Lisa Kite abstracts the authoritative of abounding of the creations on video, and posts the clips for Ivy’s 8,000-plus Instagram followers to see. In contempo months, paintings accept awash to admirers in Boston, Canada and the United Kingdom.
“I use some of the money to buy supplies, and she’s activity to alpha consistently altruistic to the Humane Society,” Lisa Kite says. “I aloof anticipate that’s affectionate of air-conditioned that a dog is accomplishing acceptable for added dogs. And some bodies – although she’s abashed of cats.”
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