Jessica, Loki and Moose's Blog – September 2015 Archive (6)

Hi All,

So he's officially a Therapy Dog now or as my brother keeps saying "he's legit!". It was the day of his final observation and he did so well today, we had a great time. I'm not sure how many people reading this have therapy dogs themselves, but we are certified through TD Inc. now, ATD and I am curious as to if the evaluation process seems similar for other organizations or if everyone has had different styles of evaluation. His test was very similar to the information…

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Hello to all,

So today was one of those magical days were the lighting was PERFECT for taking pictures. For those who have black/dark chocolate doodles you understand  the pain, blood, sweat and tears that go into taking a picture of a dark colored dog. And then we have to get them to pose! Any ways the lighting was perfect and I actually got some great images of the boys that I think do a pretty good job of show casing their personalities. There really is no point to this…

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 hello (again),

I was not going to post these last four of the boys but decided I had to. :)

 It's crazy to me how Moose at 6 months is almost the size of Loki. This is good for them though because they both play so rough together. 

I love this one of Loki because it's usually so hard to see his eyes hiding in the fluff and then factoring in the wind, movement, light- it's a lot. It's interesting to me too because when I see Loki in…

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Hello all,

Loki had his second observation today and it went really well! There were so many nice people that we got to meet and it really made me even more excited for him to be doing work as a Therapy Dog. We went to a nursing home that was part assisted living and part Alzheimer's assisted living. We did our usually mini-walk around the grounds first, I use this time to get Loki used to walking with me and this isn't "a run or the dog walk type thing" and met the observers…

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Loki wow-ed me today. He had his therapy dog exam which he passed with flying colors and to be perfectly honest he did sooo much better than I would have expected. I was debating not even testing him and waiting until January, when they would be testing again. I spoke to an evaluator and she vey plainly asked me some questions and I said I think the two things he could get hung up on would be leave it and passing another team with a dog. She simply said "why not test him? If you fail, you…

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Hi all!



So I have finally decided to start posting here and figured a good place to start would be describing my boys. They both are F1 Bernedoodles and have the same parents, just a year a part. They came from the nicest lady who is a family friend and is a great example to me of some one who does/did (Moose's litter was her last litter) breed puppies for the right reasons. She had one female Bernese and one male standard poodle who are her pets and extremely healthy dogs and she… Continue