Here it is December of 2013 and Izzy has grown into a beautiful adult Great Pyr. She has also developed a very unique personality that is often so incredibly cognizant of her environment that it is difficult to fathom how we could ever not place this breed on the top of the intelligence list.
One of her more pronounced displays is in how she mimics human behavior.
Izzy has pretty much claimed the couch as her spot and considering that we rarely use it, we tend to let her have it as she pleases, covered with one of a couple of her favorite quilts... to save the fabric of the furniture.
When she's here with just us, she sprawls out, occupying it from end-to-end but when we have family or familiar company over and are sitting at the dining room table in just the next room over, she always places her front feet on the floor, apparently copying the human act of sitting.
Besides this, she has a fairly good grasp of language; both spoken and by observation, knowing when we are about to go out as she runs to the small hanger where her leash and out-collar stay. She carefully tries to remove them to then bring it to us... making sure that we know that she WANTS to go, too!
Izz constantly surprises us with new things she has learned and has endeared herself to all she has ever met and gotten to know.
...
