Ron Downie:  

Life: Retired Scientist/Chemist. Check me out at: teledyne-ai My first marriage: 11 years and 2 beautiful children, both smarter than me with Harvard and Wharton degrees. 2nd marriage, looked up high school buddy and family in California. Met his sister (20 years later, Virginia Ward Downie) who was in high school 2.5 years older than me and little Ronnie Downie was cute but not very mature or interesting. I could only drool back then. Aha, but my dreams came true! My Pets Annie is a border collie, supposedly the smartest breed, but it took 3 years to convince me. Went through 7 weeks of training with her and she finally broke me (I got smarter and got trained) in to her character and goat-like herding skills on the kids and other dogs. Great pet after 3 years. Every "Animal Planet" bordie collie has high dexterity skills when watching them against other dogs. No...Expand for more