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= Joey Schappert =

Upbringing
Joseph Bradly Schappert, usually known as Joey Schappert, was born to Robert and Candy Schappert on April 21, 2002 in Ontario, Oregon, because that was the closest hospital. He was raised in the small town of Fruitland, Idaho. This is where he grew up and lived until he moved to college at the age of 18. Joey did not grow up poor, but lived very adequately. He was a very outdoorsy and mischievous child though, and went to the hospital many times for accidentally injuring himself. Joey stayed in the same school district all of his life and graduated from Fruitland High School in 2020.

During high school, he was a cadet for the Fruitland Fire Department for 2 years. He also was active in the FFA program and attained his State Degree. Joey also joined the scouting program when he was 11 years old, and ended up becoming an Eagle Scout in 2017.

The First Collection
What Joey was most known for in high school was his collection of animals. He specialized in reptiles and tried to buy anything that he could convince his parents to let him get, which was difficult sometimes, but he would do it other times. What got him into reptiles was the bearded dragon named Darwin that he got, and it just expanded from there. Over the next few years he collected anything he could and tried for just about everything. At the biggest, his personal collection included: 2 bearded dragons, around 14 or so crested geckos (which he bred), 4 button quail (which he also bred), 1 Mojave ball python, 1 pacman frog, and 1 duck. His family also had 2 cats and 1 dog. Friends and family could come whenever they wanted to see and handle the collection of animals, and some would even call it his small zoo, and he dreamed of having a bigger collection with many exotic animals someday, which would be open to the public.

After graduating high school, Joey had to get rid of his collection because he moved away, his parents took a few of the animals, and the rest he either sold or gave away to good homes. But his goal of spreading the joy of caring for such animals to as many people as possible was attained. There are plans for him to someday bring together a bigger, more exotic collection of animals for people to come handle and enjoy, as well as regain some of his old animals he still owns. This collection will hopefully be less private, and more people can come to check it out.

Career
Joey planned to serve a full time mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints right out of high school. He got his call to go to the Bogota, Colombia, South mission speaking Spanish, and was to leave July 16, 2020. Then after COVID hit, his call got postponed and is now set to leave May 6, 2021.

In the mean time before leaving, Joey enrolled at Brigham Young University - Idaho. He is currently majoring in Horticulture while minoring in Manufacturing.