FAVORITE ACTIVITY: Jumping on humans. Running around my sister’s front yard. Sleeping on the bed or the couch.

FAVORITE FOOD: My dog is a canine trash can. She will eat ANYTHING. I have yet to find something she won’t eat. But her favorite has to be whatever I’m eating at the time.

FUNNIEST MOMENT: Well, it wasn’t funny to me at the time but: Izzy absolutely hates dog clothing of any kind – costumes, hats, bandanas. It makes her miserable. Her first Halloween I got her all dressed up in a ladybug outfit. She tried to resist but once she realized it wasn’t coming off, she just lay on the floor pouting. I felt bad so I took the costume off. The first thing she did? March to the middle of the living room floor (carpeted), look me straight in the eye and pee on the floor. Then she marched into the bedroom and went to sleep. I guess she told me! I still put birthday hats on her once a year but she’s not happy about it.

SHE'S A PEOPLE DOG: Izzy seems to prefer people to other dogs. She’ll play a bit but she always comes back to where the people are standing so she can jump all over them. (She still hasn’t gotten the hang of “down.”) Her spotted ears are her best feature. When we lived in Northern VA, Izzy loved her vet and the staff there. But she would get SO excited and was so hard to calm down that they nicknamed her “Crizzy” which is short for Crazy Izzy. She’s still my “Crizzy” to this day.

IF IZZY HAD A MOTTO FOR LIFE, IT WOULD BE: “If you’re not slightly out of control, you’re not trying hard enough.”

Photo courtesy of Reada Kessler

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