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Stevie is a beautiful girl.  She was rescued from the Baytown Animal Shelter September 5th 1995.  She has ruled the house for the last 8 years.  One day recently I watched a program on The Animal Planet channel and saw a show called "Breed All About It" and it featured Anatolian Shepherds.  After seeing this program I am sure Stevie has to have some of this breed in her. 

Stevie is pretty much the boss around the house when it comes to the other girls.  There have been a few bad fights with Cassie and Suzie that resulted in some expensive vet bills, but overall everyone gets along.  We have learned not to let her and Cassie out together, since those have been the most vicious fights that left me with some pretty frazzled nerves.  

I located Stevie at the animal control facility while I was down there adopting a rottweiler that someone had turned in over the weekend as being vicious.  I had the opportunity to spend 30 minutes with the rottweiler at work while animal control came out to get her, and there wasn't a vicious bone in her body.  So after the usual waiting period I went down to get the rottweiler and there was beautiful little (at the time she was little) Stevie.  She had just been picked up wandering the streets.  I again waited for the time limit to be up on her and went down and adopted her. 

Here is a happy twist to the rottweiler.

She went home with me and I lived about 20 miles from where she had been picked up.  A neighbor of mine had been missing one of her rottweilers for about 2 months.  I took the one I had just adopted down to her, to see if she would like to have her, and it was discovered that it was probably her dog.  The dog immediately took to her, and it seemed it was already bonded with her other dog.  It was a happy ending, both for the rottweiler and my Stevie.