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Libby& the Hahn Family
NCE UPON A TIME...Dr. Yoram Hahn and his wife, Yaffa, saw a photo of a boxer/ German shepherd mix in the newspaper. When their last dog, also a German shepherd, passed away in 2007, the couple had been so upset that they decided they didn’t want another dog. But something about Lizzy got their attention. “She was pretty cute, and my wife wanted to have her, but I said no,” Hahn recalls. Then Yaffa went on a weeklong trip to their native Israel, and suggested that he go to see the dog while she was away. When he did, “Natalie (Partenheimer, of the Animal Protective Association) was there, and she brought the dog out and told me how Lizzy likes to play with tennis balls.” By the time Yaffa returned, Yoram was won over; and the rest, as he says, is history. The couple took Lizzy to their Frontenac home (subsequently renaming her Libby), and the new addition to the family has fit right in, Hahn says. “She’s well-behaved, she was potty-trained, she’s not
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