I have a dog named Meatball.  He is a 5 year old Blue Heeler.  He is also known as a short haired Australian Shepard or a cow dog.  He is a very smart dog.  When we got our new puppy my mom would go outside and call the puppy.  If the puppy didn't come then Meatball would go and get him and bring him to my mom.  Meatball likes to chase squirrels, he corners them up in our trees in the backyard.  He is also a very protective dog.  We lived in a house a few years ago and my mom had the cable company come hook up our cable.  Meatball was still sleeping in a kennel at the time and when the cable guy came around the corner of the hall to hook up the cable in my brothers room, Meatball went wild and tried to get out of his kennel.  My mom had to sit on the top of the kennel to keep him from getting out.  Meatball was not happy that a stranger was in one of his boys rooms. 

Meatball doesn't have to sleep in a kennel anymore.  Now we tell him kennel and he goes into my brothers room and lays down on his bed we got him.  He is a really good dog.  This last summer we went camping and it was the first time that Meatball got to run with us on the four wheelers.  He likes to do those kinds of things because he is a herding dog that would normally live on a ranch and herd cattle.  He keeps us all together when we are camping and he doesn't let us out of his sight.  I like taking him camping because I know he will let us all know if something is out in the woods that shouldn't be there.  Now you know a little bit about my dog Meatball.