My name is Luca!

Luca is a 2 year old Australian Shepherd that we adopted as a puppy from a local breeder when he was about 8 weeks old. Luca has been a great companion, loving, loves to play fetch, listens well to commands, and is very protective of our family. Luca is very high energy and is very smart as well. Some of the challenges Luca has is he does have anxiety for a dog, and gets nervous around others, which will cause him to be protective, especially around his own territory (house). While he has not bit anyone in the past, he will go up and nip someone to get them to move, which is a natural trait for a shepherd dog, however, it does cause concern when we would have others over and would have to put him away just for concern that people that may not be use to dogs, will view that as aggressive. He is good with female dogs. We are looking to rehome Luca as we will be moving to a new area that doesn't allow pets, which we hope to find a good home for him where he can be active.