Tempest (2002-2017)

Tempest is a smart sneaky conniving devious calculating animal. Everything I like in a dog. She is also quite strong, and strong willed. We had a couple of minor battles when I was trying to put her into a box in a way that she didn’t approve of. Since that time, she’s been moved to the lower boxes and we seem to have reached some sort of agreement as to how she is to be put into her box. Tempest is also one of the “Wise Bitches.” I put dogs back on their lines after runs or play time by calling each over by name, giving them a treat and then attaching the snap. Tempest, Mitzi, and Fondue all make a pretty good habit of following me around looking for pieces of treats that the dogs let slip out of their mouths. Tempest was also evidently imprinted by a cow at an early age. I can understand that given that she is a pie-bald. Anyway, her howl is often a Siberian mimic of a cow and ends up sounding more like a foghorn than either a dog or a cow. She now has the nickname, “Foggy.” There is nobody in the kennel that breaks a bigger smile than Tempest when she’s being hooked up for a run. There are dogs who can grin ear to ear and Temp is one of them.