Name: X-kayos Bozz "Gizmo", also known as "waterboy".

Born: May 12- 2002.

Breed: German shepherd

Favorite toy: Does not matter, as long someone (person or dog) is chasing him when he has it in his mouth.

Favorite hobby: Watch the site, play whit other dogs and chasing flies...

Favorite food: Most things are good, but if he has to choose he chooses liver.

Best friend: He has a whole harem!

Gizmo becomes angry when: someone wants to hurt his family or when you disturb him in his beauty sleep... 

 

Gizmo was born in Ludvika, Sweden. He was the biggest and strongest out of 10! puppies (5 males och 5 bitches). Gizmo was actually purchased by my partner, but now the whole family share him.

 

As a puppy Gizmo was very convenient, followed us wherever we went, just like a puppy shuld be...

But then came puberty... Gizmo has always been fastidious, not only in terms of food but also his water... Sometimes it was necessary to change the water every hour otherwise he would scratch the bowl until it is overturned. Until Gizmo got an new idea how to get fresh water faster...

 

At the moment me and my partner Mats lived in a very small apartment (28 square meters) in Hässelby gård- Stockholm. I was away in Thailand as a volunteer, saving Gibbons and Mats was home alone whit Gizmo.

When Mats one day came home from work (3 hours after he left Gizmo alone at home) he hears that someone is taking a shower in our apartment... He opens the door and steps in aprox. 3 cm of water, a very wet Gizmo is sitting in the leather sofa and seems incredibly proud of himself...

Gizmo has in other words: First he overturned his water dish that only contained nasty old water- according to him...  And then gone to the bathroom and opened the door (that opens outwords). Then opened the shower cabin (that only was to push on to open) turned on the shower tap (which was also very simple to turn on, just a handle to push up whit his nose). And swish! you had a lot of  fresh water!

But Gizmo wasn´t satisfied... Then he fetched a lot of newspapers from the livingroom table and placed them in the shower cabin and blocked the pipe... (even more fun! thinking Gizmo, MORE WATER!!!) But he wasn´t finished...  Then he took all the shampoo bottles and chew them open, so now there wasn´t just water everywhere, it became a bubblebath!!! This amused Gizmo 2 more times until we got tired of him and blocked the door whit an chest of drawers every time he was home alone...

That´s why we call him the "Waterboy"...

But now Gizmo is adult and sooo much wiser than he was as a puppy- NOT...

No, actually Gizmo is a wonderful german shepherd! He has for example, never in his life made charges against any other dog. He loves small dogs whatever race or gender! He dosn´t hunt wild animals, except for birds when he thinks nobody is wathing... I can have him without a leash wherever i go, he is very cool and calm (has it´s advantages and disadvantages). And last but not least, I can always feel safe when he´s around. He is very good at pretending to look dangerous, nobody has to know that he´s actually a real dork!...

Gizmo has competed in both agility and obedience but nowadays he´s retired because he has very bad hips. But we hope he will be with us for a long time to come!

 

Gizmo was also one of the first blood donors at Bagarmossens animal hospital and got interviewd by the newspaper metro. He has also paticipated in a program called the Millioner on cannel 5, he jumped Agility in 5 seconds... My own little tv-star!

     
Gizmo gives blood at Bagarmossens animal hospital.