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Date of birth: May 4th
Favorite food: anything that you handed her. She would often sit and eat the green bean ends as I snapped them. She didn't like any type of big pieces in dog food though. She would eat the smaller pieces and spit the bigger ones out on the floor.
Favorite toy: Anything that she wasn't allowed to play with. She was forever "borrowing" toys from the kids and hiding them. She never chewed on them though. You would think that the kids would have learned to keep their stuff in the closet!
Favorite game: fetch, tag, hide-n-seek. As she got older, she took a long time to find the kids. Maybe she was just glad they were being quiet.
Starfire was the mothering type. She watched out for me and the kids. I knew that when she barked someone was coming up the driveway. I was never worried about being home after dark out here in the country with her on duty. My husband came home in a new truck one day and she barked like he was a stranger. He got out of the truck and teased her about barking at him. She sassed right back and turned her back on him. She ignored him for the rest of the day for laughing at her.
We did the invisible fence thing for Starfire and Bandit. Starfire soon realized that you could sit in the warning zone and make your collar beep but not get corrected. After a few patient days of work, the battery would die and she could no longer be corrected. She would wait until we went to bed to make good her escape. I would find her on the front steps in the morning giving me that innocent look. I don't think she ever realized that the water and mud from the pond in the woods gave her away. Accepting defeat, I removed her collar. She had free roam of the farm and never went any further than the woods that she loved so much.
Starfire was the beginning for us. Little did we know how hooked we would become. She was an easy dog to live with and gave us more love than we could ever ask for. She was the leader of the pack and will be sorely missed. Humans and huskies alike mourn her passing.