COSTELLO

CATTLE DOG MIX 》MALE 》 4 YEARS OLD

Meet 🌟COSTELLO🌟❣️ The sweet and gentle 🐮cow-spotted🐮 ladies' man!

💙 This handsome, unique sweetheart is a soft and submissive pup estimated to be about 4 years old. He is fully vetted and neutered, and cat-, dog-, and child-friendly (more details below).
Costello is house, crate, and potty-trained, and walks pretty well on leash, although tends to do small circles to check back in with his walker that he is still doing what he should and is still, in fact, "The Best Boy Ever".

🩵 In addition to charming, this well-dressed gentleman is a man of mystery - we aren't quite sure what his breeds are! He might be cattledog mix, he might have some Jack Russell Terrier (he looks similar to and shares personality traits with Romeo & Russell and their 2 brothers, our suspected Jack Russell Terrier/mini cattle dogs, and was found about a year prior to them in the same area, where a man was known to backyard breed Terrier/Cattledogs)... he might also have some American Bulldog based on the dog he was found with, maybe Staffordshire with his gentle devoted affection and short fur... he might not. The only person who truly knows, is the person who decides to Embark Vet DNA test him (if so, we wanna know!)

💙 While we don't know his breed, we do know he does great with the ladies! He has been in a number of pack/playgroups, including spending time with Vienna (senior brindle Husky mix in the video), Tilly (mellow senior Sharpei), Abby & Tiff (senior boxer/cattle dog mixes), and a number of dogs who have since been adopted including a male Corgi/Shepherd and a couple others, and is currently in a pack/playgroup with Starling (a smidge on the higher side of average energy) and sisters Cheyenne (relatively high energy) and Freya (parkour extraordinaire). He often prefers slower, guided introductions to new male dogs as he can feel a little uncertain necessarily, but he has done fabulously with quick introductions to all his lady friends, and is comfortably playing with them a few minutes after introductions. <3
He adapts well to the energy around him, being polite and respectful of the senior girls, while matching and tolerating well the higher energy of the girls in his current pack dynamic.

🩵 Costello has spent extensive time in a play yard that has a shared fenceline with around up to 6 rescue cats at a time, and LOVES his kitties!

💙 He has also spent a lot of time around one team member's high energy 7-year-old boy, as well as a number of young volunteers around the same age and a little older, and has done great receiving love and treats and pets from them, and enjoys snuggling up to them as well as grown-ups too. However, he does let out a few barks sometimes when the 7-year-old runs past the yard being loud/chaotic, so he may prefer either a home with calmer and/or older children, or benefit from some brief on-going "Leave It" and behavior replacement training. He shows no signs or aggression when he barks about the child running and will immediately accept pets or treats from the little boy without any issues, and quiets down and stops barking immediately when told.
Costello has attended an 8-week group obedience class with a 15-year-old volunteer handler, and did fabulously through the whole class. He listened to his handler well, did well with the other dogs and distractions, listened and picked up what was being taught, sought praise as equally as treats as a reward, and really enjoyed partially climbing into the volunteer's lap for love at times. <3

🩵 While Costello is quite a catch, he does have one consideration...
Every once in a while, when bored and alone too long in a chain-link or mesh fenced yard, Costello will pull a Houdini and climb it (just like Russell & Romeo!). It doesn't happen often, but every once in a while when he was outside for playtime/exercise alone, we would come back out to bring him in and find him standing on a kennel roof, or on the outside of the fenced yard areas looking sheepish. He thankfully has stayed right by the house and has come back quickly when asked (as long as you don't sound mad - he is a soft boy who worries when people sound upset with him), but - in his adoptive home, he will either need non-climb fencing like wood, vinyl, or stone, or an adoptive home where he would not be left unattended in a fence he could climb. He has also had a time or two when he used an elevated object (like a table) next to a fenceline as a sort of stairs to accomplish his mission of going to find his people.



💙🩵 IF YOU FIND YOURSELF FALLING IN LOVE, WE'D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT ADOPTING OR FOSTERING COSTELLO, AND TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE!🩵💙
Costello is currently in Republic, WA and interested applicants are more than welcome to coordinate coming to us for a first meet and greet; but we do coordinate personal rescue transport of our dogs to their adoptive/foster homes throughout the PNW - please feel free to inquire more!
Costello's adoption fee is 150 which goes towards covering veterinary costs 💙