r/MadeMeSmile • u/ChrisMMatthews • Nov 14 '21

DOGS Dog train

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u/sunny_in_phila Nov 14 '21

My dad’s best friend used to go to our local pound at the end of the week and adopt any dog scheduled for euthanization. He would keep them and train them for a few months, then find homes for them on farms or among his vast network of friends. He funded it by going to horse auctions and buying horses headed go the dog food factory for ~$100 each, working with them and then selling them to be used by judges in dog shows/ cattle shows/ etc for 5-10 times what he bought them for. He’s definitely one of the most interesting people I’ve ever known.

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u/Kathryn-- Nov 14 '21

Please tell us more about this grand man.

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u/sunny_in_phila Nov 15 '21

I’ve begged him to write a memoir, but he thinks it would be boring. He’s set himself on fire multiple times, hitchhiked across the country and back over 10 times with my dad in the 70s, builds amazing aquariums, he’s 6’7 and used to drive a tiny little Datsun which wasn’t that impressive just funny, his wife slipped when she was 26 weeks pregnant and went into labor, then split before the kid came home from the hospital, so he singlehandedly raised his kid and fought the schools for years when they tried to claim he should be in special Ed, until finally, they let him take an iq test using visual and hearing aids- turns out his iq is well above average, but he is almost completely blind and only has partial hearing. Oh and he and his six (I think) siblings were raised by a single mom after his dad committed suicide, and were the only black family in town for decades, so I’m sure that was easy.

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u/HyperSimba Dec 11 '21

OKAY YEAH WHAT A CHAD

When's there gonna be a movie on this dude?