How I Arrived To My Family: Late October 2003 our dog Mattie died from a splenic tumor at age 11. We thought.....now we are down to 3 dogs, that's enough. Ya right.......we had been bitten by the Shiloh bug. We were on a list to get a puppy from Howling Winds' Hajna/Shiloh litter, but there were not enough puppies. The breeder, Jan Lutsic told us of another litter - Rising Star's Kiora/Samson litter. When we saw pictures and profiles of both Kiora and handsome, HUGE Samson, we called Sheila Masse right away!!! February 5th, 2005 we drove to Connecticut to the LER and brought home Manny!!! We got to meet MANY other Shiloh's that day, including Shane who is also on this site. The next day Manny came back to Vermont with us.....what a FABULOUS boy he has become!!!!!