Pets of Pinehurst: Darling Dexter

Dexter is a miniature schnauzer who is about 2 1/2 years old. Dexter owns my coworker, Lisa, and they both live in Pinehurst. Dexter is pretty smart, but I think Lisa’s pretty amazing too. For example: she created the website of our mutual trainer, Jeannette Stewart, owner of Practical Dog Solutions. If you check it out, you may find another photo of Dexter on her website!

Dexter was adopted from PAWS a little more than 2 years ago. With lots of love, patience, consistency and training, he is now a happy, mostly well-behaved dog.

Thanks to Lisa and Jeanette’s hard work, Dexter now has excellent house manners. He knows the standard commands such as “sit”, “stay”, “wait” and “shake.” But he also knows some trickier tricks such as “high five” and “crawl.”

He loves playing with empty pop bottles and plastic flower pots in the yard (see videos, below). His favorite foods are little carrots, frozen green beans or frozen peas.

Wherever Dexter originally came from, he obviously had cats because his best friend is a cat named Rico!

Dexter’s only fault is that he gets very excited when he goes on a walk and he sees other dogs or people. If you see him and Lisa on a walk, he will be happy to meet – you just might plug your ears for the first few minutes! He can also be heard (and seen) outside Amante’s Pizza every so often while Lisa is picking up dinner.

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Dexter and the flower pot video:

Dexter and the pop bottle video