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Here you'll learn all about me: the people in my family, my training and more.
My name is Shoes and I am a German Shepherd. Well at least my mother was a German Shepherd I never
met my father. I was born on Feb.1,2010. My poor mother was dumped just before I was born. Lucky for her she found a
nice family that cared for all of us until we were old enough to be on our own. I'll tell you more about them later.
This site will follow my training and advantages. I was only seven weeks old when I had my
first big advantage. Read on and get to know me....
The list of my training words can be found under my photo on the right. Kat and I work on new words
as soon as I master the old one. We practice the old words daily. Kat is a great teacher she gives lots of treats. At first
she gave expensive store brought treats but I gained to much weight and the vet said I needed to lose some weight. Kat did
not agree and we want to a different vet who agreed that for my bone structure I was just right but I should not get any fatter
- so Kat divides my regular food out with a part of it placed in a treat bag. I get some kibble in the morning with
a microwaved egg, raw carrots and a bit of coconut oil; and a mixture of two types of kibble at night; and more kibble
during training twice a day. So I get fed around four times a day with about four cups of kibble total. Mom feed me
the good stuff Earthborn and Nutrisih ( I think that is what she calls it) all I know is that they are made in the USA and
she says they have good stuff in them. The carrots are for my teeth along with some dental cream that she puts on my
special ball. ( She also brushes my teeth once a week) The egg and coconut oil are for my coat and skin. Kat also adds Dental
Work to my drinking water.
Hard to believe I am over five now - seems like I was a puppy only yesterday - Kat still calls me
her little puppy. LOL That's funny since I weigh 85 pounds and not little any more.
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Hello, This is Kat speaking. I have always raised and trained animals. I can not remember not having
animals, even in college I raised turtles in the dorm. I grew up on a working farm with cattle, pigs, horses,
ponies, rough collies, beagles, cats, turkeys, ducks, chickens and a few sheep. My mother and I raised and trained
the rough collies and I raised and trained the show horses. I took a little time off away from the farm to attend Purdue
University and majored in Animal Science. Like most people I also got married and started a family which of course included
animals. We started out with collies but soon stopped breeding them when our human family started growing and ended up
keeping two of the collies as family pets. In case you don't know rough collies require daily brushing and that
became a chore as our famiy started growing.. The next 20 years or so - animals were on the back burner. I still had one horse,
a few barn cats and always at least one dog (we went from long hair one to short hair dogs). I believe that if you don't
have the time to care for an animal correctly then it is best to have less animals. Now that I am retired from the U.S.P.S.
where I worked for 15 years as a letter carrier and the boys are grown I have gone back to the longer haired large dog. As
well as other animals - in the past 10 years I have experimented with training and raising mice, rats and birds. The
mice ended up as food for my pet snake - they were not easy to work with and the cages needed cleaned every day
or they smelled. The rats were wonderfully easy to train but again the cages needed cleaning way to often - expect for
Nibbles' cage because he was the smart one. Nibble's was potty trained, would come across the floor when called and would
push a little ball around. Another problem with rats is that they have short lives.
At the present I share my life with Shoes, a few barn cats: Furball, Fluffer - Nutter,Split-fire,and
Garfield these have adopted us as well.Then there is my "pet" cat - Golden Rod who get special treatment as he is allowed
to spend the night inside the garage, And then there is the animal that I actually brought - Artemis, a ball
python.
I also have rescued a parakeet named Tootsie Roll and a cockatiel named Sonny.
When not working with the animals I am working on new agility equipement, gardening, crafting, outside
shooting archery, gun target practice, working on the power point presentation, editing video for online presentations, working
on the many websites,or doing maintance on our apartment building( KBC Apartments of Seymour, LLC). I also work one-on-one
with clients as a personal dog training coach and sometimes I am just sitting out in the swing petting Shoes. :-)
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