User:Somarinoa

Somarinoa (real name Thor Cooper Steinbach-Williamson) is a major wiki contributor, a born-and-raised Alaskan, and avid dog lover (as you probably could guess).

History with Hounds
(...not actual hounds, mind you.)

Over the course of his life, he has had or has grown up around several dogs. As a child, he spent much of his time in his hometown of Ninilchik, Alaska with his maternal grandmother, who had three dogs: Amy, Butch, and Bojo. His mother took care of her friend's husky Stoney for a summer when he was 4. He then moved to Anchorage, Alaska, where he would not have another dog until he was 9. At this point his family now owned Radar, although a year later his family split up and he moved back to Ninilchik with his grandmother for 2 years, while his mother went to college in Phoenix, Arizona and his stepfather went to work in Olympia, Washington. While with his grandmother they rescued the elderly Dachshund Amanda and spent a lot of time visiting his uncle's many sled dogs. Upon returning to his nuclear family, they bought his constant companion through his teenaged years, the black/chocolate lab/husky mix Major Commitment, and this was followed up in the following years first with the Pitbull Picabo Street and then the Pomeranian/Terrier mix Lucky (E)Liz(abeth).

In the years that followed, his family would also come to own three English Mastiffs, Bess and her sons Tut and Griswold Cornelius. As of 2015, his mother now also owns a small toy dog named Tori.