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I got Linkin in the Fall of 2007 from a young family who no longer had the time that
he definitely needed and demanded for. He's a German Shepherd Dog + Boxer and was 8 months old when I got him. He was off the walls hyper, had no manners, no basic obedience and wasn't house
broken. I was looking for a young pup to take with me to school that would fit in with my own little family that consisted of
Coal, my boyfriend Jared and his cat Polly. Originally I was looking for a female because generally in dogs females and males
get along best and knowing Coal's "only child syndrome" history I was hoping to make the transition from a one dog household
into a two dog household as easy as possible. I actually first met Linkin before the owners were looking to re-home him and
before I was looking for another dog. He was just a young puppy, about 5 or 6 months old when he followed a friend over to
our place (we were living at a trailer court at the time and luck would have it Linkin was just down the road). Coal and him
got along great and I told my friend at that moment "I'm going to steal this dog eventually". When I saw him months later tied up in a backyard on a rope that was about 4 feet long, attached to a small dog house that he'd demolished, jumping up and down and screaming at the top of his lungs I thought to myself "he needs me".
After his first night home I was starting to regret that decision...
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