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Who We Are My name is
Larry Parr. For many years I used to
write cartoon scripts for TV. I am one
of the people responsible for rotting your brains on Saturday morning. I wrote everything from SMURFS to
SPIDER-MAN. My
cartoon-writing days are pretty much behind me now. My wife and my daughter and I have moved to
a small town just outside of Our dogs
are Chika, a very large German Shepard/Wolf mix. She is ¼ wolf. She is very intimidating to look at, but
she is the sweetest, kindest, most intelligent dog I have ever met. We never lock our doors at night or when we
leave for the day because no one is going to mess with the house with Chika
standing guard. Our next
dog is Molly. Molly is a mix of black
and chocolate lab. We took her in as a puppy because her owner said that any
puppies that were not given away that day he was going to shoot in the
head. Such a nice man.... We are so
glad we have Molly. She turned out to
be a dwarf. She isn’t a dwarf by breeding, she just turned out that way. You could not ask for a sweeter or kinder
dog. She loves being scratched
all over. Zoe is our latest addition. She is
a Border Collie mix. My wife got her
on a trip to WalMart. Next to our WalMart
is a pet rescue outfit called Friends of Animals. Instead of going to the store, Chris went
to Friends of Animals and fell in love with Zoe. I couldn’t
be happier. Zoe
is sooooo much fun.
She’s bright and inquisitive (this morning she was in the backyard
intently watching the crows flying around in the treetops) and just sooooo eager to learn. We had a
fourth dog. A black lab named
Murphy. She was a handful. We never bothered with any training for
Murphy and she chased a rabbit across the backyard and into the woods one
morning and just kept going. We spent
three days looking for her. But it was
no use. She was hit by a car and
killed. It’s
because of Murphy that I now understand how vital it is that all dogs
get at least the basics of training.
If you’ve never lost an animal I can only hope that you never do. It is devastating. For us it was the same as losing a human
member of our family; that’s how much our animals mean to us. Murphy has
been dead almost a year now and I’m still tearing up writing these words and
thinking about her. I strongly
urge ALL dog owners to put their dogs through at least the basics of
training. You will be amazed at
the difference it will make in your animal.
In almost every case a dog who has gone
through training is happier after training and an even greater
joy to be around. I’ve found
two training courses here on the internet that are marvelous. I can’t recommend them highly enough. They both WORK and that’s the bottom
line. You don’t
have to use either of the programs I recommend, but PLEASE get your dog
trained – if you don’t and something happens to your friend, you may never be
able to forgive yourself. -- Larry
Parr There are
two excellent dog training programs which I can personally recommend
to you. One I have personally used,
and the other my sister-in-law used and both programs worked miracles. You can read all about the program my wife and I
used to train our three dogs HERE. Read about the program my sister-in-law used to
train her old hound dog HERE. |