Hello ~ I am a dog lover & dog trainer!!!! My experience consists of my own 2 furbabies ~ Athena who was a golden retriever. She was our 1st 'child' ....we had 3 human babies after her arrival and she helped raise them. She lived a long (but too short) 14 years. Then came LadyBear. She was an Akita/German Shepherd mix who was loyal to the end. We had her for 13 years and she passed May 2014. I have always had a pet friendly house so all my friends know when they come to visit so can their pooches!!!! My daughter moved home 2012 and she has a 4 year old Doberman, Karma who is also a lover of all dogs big and small and she loves to have visitors!!!!! Most recently, I had a male German Shepherd puppy for 5 weeks while my girlfriend, his owner, recovered from surgery! She lives in the City so she told Zeus he was going to Disneyworld in NJ (that's how I came up with the headline~LOL I worked on socializing Zeus and teaching him tricks plus how to walk on a leash and my girlfriend was thrilled to get her 'trained' puppy back!!!! I started on ROVER back in 2015 and recently moved from NJ to PA (September 2022) and just updated my original information.