Yesterday Christi and Paddy were featured on King 5 Evening Magazine
Christi has strong associations with Pet Partners (Kohl and I are Pet Partners and I am a Pet Partners Team Evaluator) and with Evergreen Hospice (where Kohl and I volunteer once a week). We are so proud to see that Animal Assisted Activities and Animal Assisted Therapy are being appreciated and promoted :-)
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012
Jazz listed on Petfinder
Jazz now has his own space on Petfinder, I've provided additional info for Motley Zoo to post about Jazz ...
Jazz in a very friendly boy, he likes both people and other dogs. However, he is quite exuberant on first meeting and doesn’t realize his own strength. Walking on a Wonder Walker or similar harness helps to control Jazz when he gets excited, once he settles Jazz is very good to walk and doesn’t pull on leash.
Off leash Jazz comes when called, he knows basic obedience and is quick to learn. Jazz is good about being brushed/combed and having his feet wiped before he comes into the house. He is well mannered in the house and doesn’t mind being in an x-pen.
Jazz sleeps in his crate at night and is happy to spend some time in his crate during the day as well. Jazz is a good traveller and likes to ride in the car, he will find it easier to get in and out once he has lost some weight! Jazz loves just hanging out with his people and being petted, he will make someone a great companion.
Here's a 'promotional video' I made of Jazz ...
Jazz in a very friendly boy, he likes both people and other dogs. However, he is quite exuberant on first meeting and doesn’t realize his own strength. Walking on a Wonder Walker or similar harness helps to control Jazz when he gets excited, once he settles Jazz is very good to walk and doesn’t pull on leash.
Off leash Jazz comes when called, he knows basic obedience and is quick to learn. Jazz is good about being brushed/combed and having his feet wiped before he comes into the house. He is well mannered in the house and doesn’t mind being in an x-pen.
Jazz sleeps in his crate at night and is happy to spend some time in his crate during the day as well. Jazz is a good traveller and likes to ride in the car, he will find it easier to get in and out once he has lost some weight! Jazz loves just hanging out with his people and being petted, he will make someone a great companion.
Here's a 'promotional video' I made of Jazz ...
Friday, May 4, 2012
Foster Poodle
Yesterday we added another poodle to our family, albeit temporarily. Jazz is a 6 yr old white standard poodle, we are fostering him for Motley Zoo until he finds his new forever home.
Jazz is big, Stephen described him as the size of a small horse. Jazz is not just tall/big boned, he is overweight and probably weighs as much as both of our boys put together!
Jazz settled in well overnight, it helps that he is crate trained. This morning we piled all four dogs (Kohl, Sky, Riley and Jazz) into the car and headed out to Carnation Dog Park. We had taken Jazz and Kohl there yesterday so that they could get to know one another, now it was time for the other two to get to know Jazz. It was great having all that room for the boys to run around in, they all got on extremely well and when some other dogs arrived, we stopped and chatted to their owners while the dogs played. Jazz needs to be more respectful to little dogs, but other than that he was very well behaved, came when he was called and was the perfect car traveller, once we managed to get him in ... he is just so big!
Now all the boys are chillaxing after their morning activity :-)
Pictures to come ...
Jazz is big, Stephen described him as the size of a small horse. Jazz is not just tall/big boned, he is overweight and probably weighs as much as both of our boys put together!
Jazz settled in well overnight, it helps that he is crate trained. This morning we piled all four dogs (Kohl, Sky, Riley and Jazz) into the car and headed out to Carnation Dog Park. We had taken Jazz and Kohl there yesterday so that they could get to know one another, now it was time for the other two to get to know Jazz. It was great having all that room for the boys to run around in, they all got on extremely well and when some other dogs arrived, we stopped and chatted to their owners while the dogs played. Jazz needs to be more respectful to little dogs, but other than that he was very well behaved, came when he was called and was the perfect car traveller, once we managed to get him in ... he is just so big!
Now all the boys are chillaxing after their morning activity :-)
Pictures to come ...
Monday, April 30, 2012
Kohl has officially retired from agility ...
Mr Kohl got his final ExclA Jumpers leg on his first run (Fri 4/27/2012) - he came third too! His agility days are now over, Stephen moved him up to ExclB for the last two days and it was pretty clear he wasn't enjoying it.
Five out of six of Skyboy's runs were very good. They had a bar down in two of the JWW runs and he missed the dog walk contact on all three STD runs - Stephen's just signed up for Daisy Peel's running contacts class so he's hoping Sky will soon figure the dog walk out. Here's a video of Sky's best JWW run, he came second and was beaten by a Border Collie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
We are off the SnoKing this weekend and then Spokane the following weekend.
Five out of six of Skyboy's runs were very good. They had a bar down in two of the JWW runs and he missed the dog walk contact on all three STD runs - Stephen's just signed up for Daisy Peel's running contacts class so he's hoping Sky will soon figure the dog walk out. Here's a video of Sky's best JWW run, he came second and was beaten by a Border Collie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
We are off the SnoKing this weekend and then Spokane the following weekend.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
First Agility Trial of 2012
Saturday, February 14th
Had a nice JWW run today at the Afghan Hound Trial at Argus Ranch. Sky Q'ed and came first with a time of 28.82s beating the next dog by 1.25s, Sky ran at 5.85 yards per second and got 19 MACH points. After the trial we ran an AKC "B" match on the same JWW course. This time I handled Sky the same way that Daisy Peel handled her dog and Sky did the course in 26.96s nearly 2 seconds quicker! Here a link to the run http://www.youtube.com/
Sunday, February 15th
Ran again today at the Afghan Hound Trial. Q'ed in STD with a time 42.15s, Sky came 2nd and got 26 MACH points. Unfortunately we had a single off course jump in JWW so no DQ. Finally, we ran T2B and came 1st with a time of 28.75s, Sky now has 6 legs in T2B and 57 points out a maximum of 60. Sorry no video today. Running 4 days at the Portland trial next week - can't wait.
Had a nice JWW run today at the Afghan Hound Trial at Argus Ranch. Sky Q'ed and came first with a time of 28.82s beating the next dog by 1.25s, Sky ran at 5.85 yards per second and got 19 MACH points. After the trial we ran an AKC "B" match on the same JWW course. This time I handled Sky the same way that Daisy Peel handled her dog and Sky did the course in 26.96s nearly 2 seconds quicker! Here a link to the run http://www.youtube.com/
Sunday, February 15th
Ran again today at the Afghan Hound Trial. Q'ed in STD with a time 42.15s, Sky came 2nd and got 26 MACH points. Unfortunately we had a single off course jump in JWW so no DQ. Finally, we ran T2B and came 1st with a time of 28.75s, Sky now has 6 legs in T2B and 57 points out a maximum of 60. Sorry no video today. Running 4 days at the Portland trial next week - can't wait.