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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going
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To: PatiBob who wrote (155928)12/21/2007 9:17:31 AM
From: Ken Adams  Read Replies (2) of 225578
 
"Mister" was a purebred German Shepherd puppy given to a neighbor by her boyfriend. She didn't want the dog and let him run the neighborhood day and night. One morning I saw him licking the dew off the grass and put out a bowl of water for him. He immediately "adopted" us. After a week of caring for him, I gave the neighbor $20 for him as my kids were already in love with him. As he grew he became an undisciplined problem, since I knew nothing about training a dog that size. I tried to give him to the Denver Police Department. Their trainer asked why and I told him the dog didn't mind and ran the neighborhood. He asked if I had kids and when I said "yes" he said "If I could show you how to train him, would you keep him?" Agreeing to that, he invited me to come to their training facility, without the dog, and I spent a full day there. I learned the basic commands and spent most of my spare time one summer working with Mister. By the end of summer, the neighbors thought I had taught the dog to speak English. He obeyed numerous voice commands as well as many hand signals. He enjoyed it as much as I did. He became a wonderful pet and friend. Putting him down 12 years later was one of the most difficult things I've ever had to deal with.
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