OUR "CHILDREN"

All of our children are of the four legged variety. We love them dearly and have been told that we treat them as if they were real children.

If you have visited Lora's horse page, you have already met Dream. He has been with us the longest and Lora jokingly calls him her "illegitimate child" since she has had Dream since before we were married. We have now added a second equine child to our family. Cause Im Kendall joined our family in February 2000.

Next (after Dream) came Leo and Shadow. Leo was acquired through an animal shelter. We had lost our first cat, Ace, and after looking several months had come to the conclusion he would never be found. We adopted Leo on one of our many visits to the shelter hoping to find Ace.

Leo was a lovable little kitten who looked just like a lion, so that's where he got his name. He grew up a bit, and pretty much ignored us unless he was out of food :-) Unfortunately, Leo died last year about Easter time. He had grown rather large and the vet wanted to put him on a diet. He lost a lot of weight too fast, and we think his heart couldn't handle it.

Shadow was given to us by a friend in Pennsylvania. Her barn cats had many kittens and Lora fell in love with the little grey one. Shadow was so small when he came to live with us, Lora would carry him around in her robe pocket to keep from stepping on him in the mornings while getting ready for work. Shadow is still a little pest, but we love him!

Last, but most certainly not least is Dee Dee. She is an Australian Shepherd. Sometimes we think Dee Dee is a little person. She is so smart. When we try to teach her a new trick, she seems to learn it in warp speed! She has a large basket of tricks and she'll show them off almost anywhere (for treats, of course). Dee Dee loves to fetch things. At home, her favorite fetch toy is her Frisbee. When we are at the farm, her favorite toy was an old leather basketball that has a raggedy cover. She can pick it up and carry it by the cover, and the first thing she did at the barn is search until she finds the basketball. You'd see her coming with the ball dangling from her mouth, and she'll lay it at your feet. Then a game of kick and fetch was sure to follow! But that ball is long gone now, and now she plays with a dog-sized horse ball with a handle on the top.

Dee Dee loves to go everywhere with us. She has friends all over the state of Texas, the US and even the World. How's that? Dee Dee goes to every horse show with us. We go to at least one show a month, therefore the friends from Texas and Oklahoma. When we go to the Appaloosa National and World shows, Dee Dee gets to see her friends from the rest of the US and her International friends from Canada and even Germany! Its funny, usually people are looking for Dee Dee before they even say "Hello" to us!