[ Ozzy ]

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NAME: Ozwald / prefers Ozzy
AGE: 3 years
GENDER: male
BREED: black labrador x greyhound x german shepherd
PACK: loner (?)

APPEARANCE:

= Hm, let's see.. he's your average mutt. A pure black canine mainly taking after the black Labrador side, but having a more slim and lean build like the greyhound. Longer legs and high-set shoulder blades, his head hangs slightly low. His body build makes it very easy for him to jump and escape fences/cages, though still in this "puppy-stages", he's very clumsy. He's also quite the fast runner. His size is taken after by the greyhound bloodline, being quite taller. Yet as mentioned earlier, his head hangs lower so he looks shorter than his height.

= His pure black and soft coat, with medium-length fur, is usually quite clean despite the fact that he is a stray. It is completely straight except for on his back, it has a bit of waviness to it. He doesn't consistently shed, but when he does it's quite a lot and also itches.

= As pointed out earlier, he is a leaner-built dog, but he is also quite strong. Though this is overtaken by his clumsiness, which is one of his biggest disadvantages, so strength is not an option in combat which he tries to avoid.

= In the tail, you can definitely see the shepherd in him, as it is nicely sleek and hangs down, having a perfect slight curl at the end. His eyes are your common medium-light brown. The ears are just like a Labradors, flopping nicely at the side of his head, just slightly bigger than normal. His paws aren't small yet not large, being proportionate. The nose is pure black, as usual with Labs, and jowls do not hang. He's also got a small scar on the bottom of his left paw from being struck by a car when he was younger, before the apocalypse.

PERSONALITY:

= One word, puppy. This dog is nothing more than a playful puppy at heart. He is always ready to wrestle with or play chase-tag, loving the company. Though as a loner as of now, he would always be happy to be accompanied by another creature to have as a friend in this cold world. When out wondering, he always chases any small animal or flying bug he comes around. Or, he used to, though not so much any more because of food being hard to catch he tries to treasure any food he can find.

= Since he does not like fighting, he tries to avoid anyone who looks tougher than him. Though sometimes his curiosity gets the best of him, and he has gotten into scuffles before. Still though, he has not learned his lesson yet. He dislikes being alone, but there is really nothing to do about that at the moment.

= As when it comes to 'romantics', he would definitely fall into the category of a player. He's not very smooth, and usually always fines a way to say the wrong thing. Oz is definitely one who will not be in a long-term relationship. The word "responsibility", is not something that is in his vocabulary.

HISTORY:

= As for his canine family, his mother was a pure bred black Lab and his father is a Greyhound crossed with a German Shepherd. Some also thought his father had Coyote in him, but that was never confirmed. He had two other brothers, one named Manuew [ man - you], his other brother, he never met after the pups were sold and doesn't have any memory of him. When he lived at home before he was a stray, he lived with two other dogs. One male pure bred black lab named Bear, and a very old tan Dachshund named Rocky.

= For his human family, he lived with a single father and his five kids [ two brothers and three sisters ]. Two of the youngest sisters use to pick on him, but that never really bothered him, he enjoyed the attention all the more. He was seldom abused by incoming people who would come to the house, this was kept to a minimum as much as possible but happened weekly.

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= He was born and has lived in and around Wisconsin mostly all of his life, breaking out of the owners yard quite often and ending up the the pound almost every time. Someone would always show up and get him out. At one point, he was struck by a car causing him to have a scar on the bottom of his left paw and a fractured leg. As he grew up, he was abused by people who would come and stay at the house until one night he decided he just couldn't take it anymore, that was the moment he jumped the fence, but this time he didn't come back. He ran and ran as far as he could, and has been a stray ever since. Getting into accidental scuffles with other territorial dogs and cougars along, but always outrunning them, trying to avoid confrontation as much as possible. He had been a loner ever since, but would love to find a friend to have by his side that wouldn't try to either eat him or rip at him for coming into one-others territory.