Best Friends Hurricane Relief
Training For A New Life
December 4, 2005 : 4:17 PM
Lee Mannix looks and acts like a good 'ol boy west Texas red neck . That's 'cuz he is, right down to the chewing tobacco can wear mark on the back pocket of his jeans.
He is also one of the best dog trainer / behaviorists in this or any other country. In addition to his own operation in Austin, TX, Lee is, among other things, a training consultant with the famed Battersea Home for Dogs in London, England.
Lee has worked with Best Friends in the past so when invited he jumped at the opportunity to get involved with helping to train and place some of Tylertown's more challenging dogs.
He visited our operation in Mississippi this past week and worked with our team to design a program and choose the first group of dogs to head for Austin for training and foster care. The program will, "Training For A New Life", will give special needs dogs a leg up on a new life in a great home.
Lee is Texas to the core and arrived wearing one of his big black cowboy hats...not the best thing to be wearing while doing evaluations of dogs with behavior issues, so he hung it on a corner post of one of the dog runs. Well, that was just too irresistible a challenge for one little dog with an exceptional vertical leap. In the accompanying photo, Lee offers his $300 Resistol alá Canine Cuisinart to aptly named Munch who earned his name by chewing his way out of an airline crate.
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