lol well I always had pets but no dogs till I was 8, we always had birds before that, well, my dad had wanted a dog and my mom had always had shelties in the past, my naighbor knew that so when he found a little sheltie mix puppy in the ally, and he could not keep her(my naighbores were crazy too, they had like 20 cats and 8 dogs, but all the dog exept for dixie were huge) well my dad was the only one home, the rest of use were in kelowna, and he took shadow in, took her to work with him every day, built her a dog house, got her a leash and dishes etc.. so we came home from vacation to a dog lol and from then on I was hooked, when I wanted my own dog my dad said I could when I was older, when I was 13 I decided I was older lol and started begging and pleading, I got Happy and because of her we got into dogsports, wich is our reason for all the other dogs lol