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The
Vopelaks are an ordinary family
who live in the country and have
a love of animals; especially
our dogs. We are in beautiful
central Wisconsin--we been in
the same home for nearly 35
years.
As a child one of my first
memories was the love of
animals, especially dogs, which
I sensed were a special
animal---who had love/devotion
and joy to give, if you just
spent some time with them. I
remember one time, around third
grade, class was out for recess
and there was a dog on the
playground, friendly and cute,
when the bell rang--I didn’t
want to go back in but stayed
playing with the dog and
actually walked home and took
the dog with me. Of course, the
teacher was frantic.
Later on I, myself, became a
teacher; but after getting
married chose to be a stay at
home Mom. My teaching instinct
still came into play and taught
the children a lot of the basics
and even themselves to be
teachers, though none pursued
that career, by nature the
children loved animals too.
When the kids were young we had
a min-farm on our thirty acres,
dogs, horses, chickens etc. We
became
involved in 4-H and showed many
of the animals at the annual
County Fair. They took the 4-H
Dog Obedience subject and at the
end of the class, a 4-H Dog Show
was held at the county fair in
front of the grandstand. Our
kids took lst place in training
of their dogs and received nice
trophies, of course, we were
very proud.
Now the kids are grown and have
places of their own, but still
have the love of animals and
have the teaching desire, one
daughter,
 Becky
trains and shows Tennessee
Walking Horses and is a
certified trainer. Bob, our son
works at a Dude Ranch. Our
other daughter, Christy, trains,
shows, and raises dogs and has
our grandchildren started
training and loving animals too.
My husband of forty years loves
dogs and animals too. He is
very handy at making and fixing
things and does a lot for our
dogs for their comfort--he finds
time to do this even with his
full-time job. He grew up on a
farm and always had a dog. His
folks always had a big garden.
Since we were married, we always
had a garden and dogs. I learned
to
can from his Mom and put up
many vegetables. We are organic
gardeners and we became the
First certified organic garden
in our county. We still grow an
organic garden.
On occasion we had cows, pigs
and goats. Once the chickens
were laying very well and I had
extra eggs, so fed them to the
terriers and their coats started
to shine--so eggs became a part
of their diet. This too---good
food, has overflowed into my
terriers, they get the best of
food.  All terrier pups are
started on the NuVet Plus
Supplement, which is human grade
and does wonders for keeping
them healthy. I believe the
life of a puppy is shaped by
those very important first few
weeks and try to give them
love/best food/ and the training
to get them started in the right
direction. I do start them
potty training outside and this
has been a proven helper to the
person getting the pup for that
important job of housetraining.
My motto for the dog is: Spell
it back words…………
Daughter, Christy, placed lst
with
her Australian Terrier at
the AKC show.
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