Owners, Allen and Elana Silberstein, have been passionate pet owners since their childhood.Alan’s brother found an old Doberman, which his family accepted into their home and nursed back to health. It turned out that Pontie, the Doberman, was a retired police dog whose adopting owners had mistreated.Pontie would lie in front of Alan’s stroller and guard him as a child. Throughout our lives, my wife and I have had dogs, cats, a rabbit, and I even had a young baboon, which I had to give away. When our daughter was born, our Chow Chow, who we adopted from the pound, would lie under her crib and not allow strangers to get close.