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Lacy was welcomed into the Hinners’
home from among a litter of puppies at a
friend’s house in Colorado.
The Hinners are teaching their dogs
to pay it forward, as it were. Lacy attends
weekly courses to learn how to become a
therapy dog, certified by the Delta Society,
an organization that matches animals with
children with special needs. “Sammy is next
on the list,” Hinners says.
Frank and Sandy see to it that Emma,
Samantha and Lacy are walked around
the neighborhood daily, on a special
leash with split leads. And each dog bears
colored tags on her collar. “We’ve also had
microchip ID tags inserted in all three,”
Hinners says. “We don’t want to lose these
gals!”
Puff the bearded dragon
When Gene and Teresa Clayton left
upstate New York to start a new life in
Maricopa in 2005, they were beginning to
identify with other empty-nesters whose
grown children had moved on. Daughters
Jacquelynn and Samantha have since returned
to the East, leaving just son Matt,
Who is your favorite famous pet?
Taco Bell Chihuahua
Lassie
Old Yeller
Mr. Ed
Spuds McKenzie
Flipper
BJ the Orangutan
5%
Rin Tin Tin 4%
Willy – “Free Willy”
4%
Flicka 1%
Other
6%
18, still at home.
Deciding to fill their Maricopa Meadows
home with some pets sounded good,
but the Claytons were wary of the attention
that one has to give to dogs or other more
conventional pets. They opted instead for
four ferrets and a couple of bearded dragons,
Puff, a male, and Phlyo, a female.
The two-year-old dragons — not the
stuff of fantasy — are lizard-like animals
8%
9%
11%
14%
19%
19%
Source: InMaricopa.com poll: 303 votes
native to Australia, that look quite fierce
close up, and are very sensitive to heat, light
and humidity. “They live in a vivarium that
Gene designed and built,” Clayton says,
“and we decided it would fit right in, in the
corner of the living room.”
The L-shaped enclosure has special
glass, a sophisticated heating, cooling and
ventilating system, two thermostats, and
special UV lighting.
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