LebTown features a different Lebanon County pet each Friday to help us enter the weekend with the best vibes possible.
Our Pet of the Week is sometimes available for adoption through a local shelter. Other times the weekly column will spotlight a local furbaby who already lives in a happy Lebanon County home.
This week, meet Addie!
Addie, owner Natasha Nolt tells us, is an unusual mix of Chihuahua, Australian shepherd, and German shepherd. (Natasha says she thought she might be part kangaroo, given how much she loves to jump, but that didn’t show up in her DNA testing.) Addie is 3 years old, having lived for the past two years with the Nolt family after being adopted out of Texas via a New Jersey-based rescue group.
“Addie came to us as a very timid girl,” Natasha says. Although she eventually blossomed into a very playful and lovable pup, Natasha says she “is still afraid of most strangers. It takes her a dozen times to be around you for her to finally trust you.”
She shares the Nolt family with another dog, a mini-Rottweiler mix named Aspen.
Addie may be small, but she likes to attempt to counter surf and has successfully nabbed her Daddy’s sandwich a few times times, Natasha says. “She also enjoys stretching her neck at the dinner table and tries to lick your plate!”
She loves to destroy rubber dog toys, as any good dog will, and her Mom’s flip-flops, Crocs and dress shoes, which is not so good. She has a lot of energy, she adds, and and she enjoys running around outside chasing and antagonizing her sister. She prefers to rest on Mommy’s and Daddy’s bed or on the sofa with Mom.
“Her human sister adopted her friend Duke from the same rescue,” Natasha says. “When he comes over her sister Aspen gets a break because is as active as Addie.”
Addie loves car rides, and one ear “has a mind of it’s own. Sometimes it sticks straight up while the other one is down!” She doesn’t like the water, even with a flotation device! “Because Addie is so thin, Mommy bought her a winter sweater to wear when she is outside. She has some big furry sisters and would visit them in the barnyard to eat (their) food till Mommy got her a collar for the underground fence. Now she can just bark at them when they are in the pasture.”
Congratulations to Addie (and, by extension, Aspen) for being this week’s LebTown Pet(s) of the Week!
Looking for a pet? Check out available adoptions at the Humane Society of Lebanon County.
To nominate your pet, email pets@lebtown.com and include:
- Your name and your pet’s name
- Pet’s breed if applicable
- A little about your pet and why they should be “Pet of the Week”
- And of course—pictures! Feel free to send high-quality attachments or a link to an online storage service.
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