Rocky probably cares a lot more about how you arrange things than you might think. For her it's everything in its place or she'll tear it up and let chaos reign. Of course, what seems like chaos to you just might be her version of order. She'll be particularly good at obedience training and performing specific tasks, but only if you are very consistent with her. She may be on the finicky side in what she opts to participate in, with strong likes or dislikes, sometimes with a fine line between them. For that same reason, she can understand your peculiarities and fit in with them more than some humans you may know.

What you see, and hear, is what you get with Rocky because she doesn't divide her loyalties, or even her opinions. She's all there, 100% of the time, and totally up front about it. That also means she never stops, or lets go, until she finally falls asleep, and her personal attachments are total. This one will go down with the ship trying to save the last family member.

Rocky is quick off the mark, a dog of action. Although that makes her the first with the most, she can also get ahead of you when you're not ready for it. That can get her into accidents or confrontations that she acts on in a microsecond while you're still surveying the situation. Sometimes, holding her with a tight lead is wise.

Rocky has a deep well of feelings that is never fully tapped because she expresses them with such ease. Warmth and enthusiasm flow readily, but without spilling all over the place as with some dogs. You can depend on Rocky coming up with a quiet but original way to show how much she understands you, but without making a huge display of it.

Training Rocky can be an adventure unto itself, with more than a few surprises. When you think she'll zig, she zags. Predicting her moves and her moods may be difficult, but it won't be boring. She's at her best when coming up with new tricks you didn't intend to teach her.

Part of Rocky's innate power comes from being right, and having a rough, down-to-earth philosophy that people in her birth era have a lot to learn from. If there's one thing to pay attention to, it's that dogs don't lie, at least not without a lot of training. Usually dogs emulate their masters, but sometimes, maybe, it's their own better instincts that triumph.