My name is Zeus!

What a character - full of energy and love with a tail that pretty much wags all the time!

Zeus is a boxer/mastiff mix from Kentucky and was found wandering the streets. He contracted mange, which is highly contagious and had to stay down at the shelter until he got a clean skin scrape. So that took about 2 weeks. He started his long journey to his foster home in Minnesota on an early Saturday morning, where a lot of wonderful people helped transport him from Kentucky to Minnesota, each group driving an hour or 2 to meet up with the next person. His foster dad took the final leg to bring him home.

Zeus has separation anxiety but is doing better. If you leave him at home, he sometimes gets really mad for leaving him and he will have an accident in the house to show you he wasn't happy to be left. He has not been crated when we are gone – work/school or running errands.

He loves to go on car rides and has to stick his head out the window with his jowls flapping in the wind. He is about 5-6 years old and a big boy at 102 plus pounds. He has a big head and uses that to push himself into every ones' business. He feels he needs to be the center of attention and will push to get there. He is learning manners, some faster than others. He is doing well with sitting and waiting for his food to get ready, then rushes over to his raised food stand and sits, waiting for it to be put down and told “OK” to release him from his sit/wait. Sometimes, the wait isn't until given the command, but he does wait for it to be set down.

I also have not seen food aggression with waiting, touching, or even taking his bowl from him... he will use his big head to try and keep the bowl, but does let it go. Zeus is also learning to sit (sitting still is sometimes an issue) to get the leash put on so he can go outside.

We do not have a fenced yard, so a leash is always on while outside. He is also learning to wait, just outside the door (we have 3 steps to go down) at the top landing, then told to go down the steps and wait there until we get down the steps and release him from his wait. He does pull on the leash quite a bit at times – especially if he thinks he sees a bunny in the yard... those are fair game that he feels he needs to chase. Walking on a leash is getting a little better, but he does pull us around. We try to stop and make him relax the leash, but if he has to go potty – it is right to the bush to pee if he knows he is going for a car ride, you are pulled to the back door of the vehicle where he then waits for you to open the door for him to jump in. ( Did I mention, he loves car rides).

I do feel he would be better in a home with older children or no children, as he forgets his size and will knock into them. He loves sleeping on the bed at night and will take up most of the bed. He does also likes touching you at night. Loves to lay on the couch with you also.