My Mom, KC Frantzen, agreed to write my story because she thought you might enjoy reading it.
I asked her to because I can’t hold a pen or type very well, though I try to help by lying in her lap when she writes about me. 

Mom has spoken “critter” since she was a little girl. Her Dad is a veterinarian in Houston, TX.  (We have a lot of veterinarians in our extended family.)  Mom started watching surgery when she was three years old and by the time she was a teen, she helped at the clinic during summers:  cleaning cages & mopping floors, bathing critters, bookkeeping, running laboratory tests, helping clients.  But her favorite thing was talking to my fellow four footers (mostly dogs and cats in Granddad’s animal hospital).  That’s where she became fluent in speaking “critter”!

One of her favorite memories was when her Dad would come home with a patient who needed watching during the night. (They didn’t have emergency clinics for us back then.  A veterinarian would have to go to the clinic to see about his patients, unless he brought them home.)  He’d put the pet carrier on the dryer and Mom would get up on her tippy toes to peer in and see who was in there and to make them feel welcome and comfort them as best she could.  You’ll have to get her to tell you about the ocelot!

She started writing when she was in elementary school and even won the school-wide contest with a story she wrote on deep sea fishing.  But though she kept writing here and there, it was mostly just for her own fun.

When she graduated high school (she was 16), she had not decided what she wanted to do with her life yet, so she decided to work full-time at the clinic until she could figure it out.  In the spring of the next year, a teacher came in.  Mom remembered her very own first and second grade teacher, Mrs. Strickland.  So she decided that’s what she would do – go to college and become a teacher.  She graduated with straight A’s (something she says is called Magna Cum Laude) with a double major in history and elementary education. 

Mom taught fifth grade for awhile, then she worked for an oilfield supply company and then a pharmaceutical company, and then she started her own business.  Eventually she met Dad and they got married in the back yard with one horse and two dogs and two cats as their attendants.  Hans was one of them!  He told me all about it.  (At that time, Hans was about the age I am in May on the Way.)  After they were married awhile, Dad got a job working in Venezuela for about a year, so Mom went too. While they were there, they met the real life Sassy and the story in the book really happened - just like that! 

Mom has an active imagination - she’s really still a kid at heart. She says from watching me!  She tells me she admires my spirit and my attitude having survived all I did when I was a puppy.  Like Mom says all the time, God has a plan!  Of course, a lot of times we don’t know what it is until later.  I mean, I would never have figured that growing up enduring the abuse I did, that one day I’d be the star of my own book series! So she wanted to help me tell my story to you.  We both hope that you are encouraged to know that God loves you and has a perfect plan for you too!

We all live in the hills of Middle Tennessee with my two Arabian horse BIG sisters and several of us adopted dogs. April (the Grouch) crossed the Rainbow Bridge in the summer of 2009, and Hans in January, 2010.  Up until the last, he would still prance and dance for his breakfast!  And I still play all the time, even though I’m an older dog. My birthday is June 13, 2000.

Thanks for reading more about me and Mom and I hope to see you soon so you can have my PAWograph!

About MY Mom

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