December 31, 2007
Maryland Dogs Live the Sweet Life on USD 800K Inheritance
Hagerstown, Md. They’re non as ladened as Leona Helmsley’s bow, but three Maryland canine tooths are plenty rich enough to populate high on the domestic dog.
The Canis familiaris - called Buckshot, Katie and Obu-Jet - transmissible USD 400,000 and a business firm in Hagerstown with the expiry last twelvemonth of proprietor Ken Kemper. Altogether, their land is worthed about USD 800,000.
The beagle and two Labrador mixes existed strays when Kemper adoptive them. They now live at their house with caretaker Roy Grady.
They power not be cognizant of their wealthiness, but they do know that on one dark a hebdomad Grady treats them to spaghetti dinner, with meatballs and Allium sativum bread.
“They love it,” he informated. “They know when it’s coming up on Friday, excessively. They have that time clock.”
They besides get notch health care. When Katie acquired out of the pace last summer and was hit by a motorcar, she made 40 visits to a veterinarian’s business office to fix her crushed legs and hip. The measure was close to USD 6,000.
Helmsley’s dog, a spoilt but reportedly ill-tempered Maltese called Trouble, hereditary USD 12 000 000 from the late hotelkeeper. But different that pooch, Kemper’s pets look content skylarking in their pace.
“They’re the most loving dogs,” Grady informated.
Kemper did work for the federally funded Voice of America, and ordinarily brought home stray dogs when he renderred from overseas duty assignments.
The executor of Kemper’s demesne, longtime ally Karin Anderson, emphasised that when the domestic dogs die, she will in all likelihood donate the rest of the acres to an animal brotherly love because that’s what Kemper would have desired.
“He genuinely loved brutes,” Anderson stated. “The man’s bosom was so big, it required its own ZIP code.”