Marantz, Hirsh

In 1959, while Hirsh Marantz and his wife Lois were going for a car ride, Lois saw a man training his dog to heel. After watching the man as they went by him, Hirsh thought "I can do that." Hirsh and his wife had a German Shorthaired Pointer named Topper at the time and Hirsh proceeded to train Topper to heel and sit. He had already been trained to come. Unfortunately, someone left the gate to the back yard open and Topper was hit by a car and killed. Their next dog was a German Shepard - Collie mix named Shep. Realizing that Shep was going to be a big dog, Hirsh and Lois took Shep to a traini...