Our First Post of the New Year 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR

to you all.

We hope you all had a fabulous

HOLIDAY SEASON

Our update of what we have been doing and are working on now.

• Therapy Dog Service: As most of you probably know the Holiday Season is one our busiest times of the year. The past couple of months -- November through December -- we sure worked hard making sure we put BIG SMILES on our clients/patients faces by dressing up in some holiday outfits. Even though at times our faces my have looked like we were discussed -- we sure had fun when we seen how everyone reacted. We are some of the biggest HAM BONES you will ever find.
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• Adding Team Members:  Mom has been very busy this past year to help other teams get registered with the Delta Pet Partner Program in our area.  Which lead to the formation of DeBoy's Therapy Animal Group -- which will go by DeBoy's T.A.G. Team as new teams complete their training, evaluations and registrations.  Which we are very excited to announce our 1st Delta Pet Partner Workshop is being conducted this week and next.

• Our Play Time:  With being therapy dogs and working on a weekly basis, mom has us doing lots of different things to keep us fit, less stressed and having the opportunity to be just plan DOGS.  Although we absolutely LOVE our work, we must play; so our play time consist of agility, fly ball, trick & challenge training, swimming, hiking, walking with friends and just cuddling up to dad at night after spending the whole day with mom. 
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• Mom's Blogging Goal:  Mom has decided to get herself organized.  LOL  She is using the month of January to get a good standardize simple plan in place for posting.  If anyone out there can help her with this idea, please do.  Well here is what she is thinking           
• Blog Post Themes (some we are doing now, but need to be                 more consistent)

                   Monday's:  Manic Mondays (we wish it were Sunday) -- devoted to our preparation for our therapy visits: which in tale revolves around our weekly baths.  These post will most likely be just photo's, hoping they speak for themselves.

                   Tuesday's:  Therapy Days -- devoted to what we encountered during our Monday visits to the hospital (Dixie Regional Medical Center) and Tuesday visits to Cliff View Senior Living Center.  Hopefully we will be able to capture some video/photos of us with the patients.

                   Wednesday's:  Wordless Wednesday -- this one we love to participate in for we love seeing all of your photo post that speak a thousand words all by themselves.  PRICELESS!

                   Thursday's:  This day maybe a mixture of Tricks and Training Challenges -- Ricky please forgive us for not be a very good participant lately, we love your ideas and you all are an inspiration to us.  Thank you for letting us be a part of your day.

                   Friday's:  Not sure what to call this day.  Maybe we will use this day to post about things of the past.  Hmmm  

                   Saturday's and Sunday's:  Posting will be very limited these two days -- for this is our time to spend with DAD!

So, with this all said, mom is on her way of completing one of her NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS -- making her/our blog post simpler and by February we should be posting consistently.  

Wish us luck and happy blogging to you all.

-- Brutus, Tytus and Patti

    

Tricky t-day -- We Got Mail

We finally took

the 

TIME

to work on our

Tricky t-day!

Mom 

thought sense we have enrolled in a couple of

fun blogging

groups like

Holiday Card Exchange

and

Christmas Gift Exchange

it would

be

FUN

to have us carry our own

Mail!

So, off to the mail box we went

OFF LEASH

and all.

This is fun!

We even had some

that looked like

Christmas

Cards!

Mom

Wait for Brutus

I got it!

I can do it!

I told you I could get it.

Truth be told though

this was our first time

carrying

the 

Mail!

But, we actually used our

NEWSPAPER

skill

for this trick.

Now, we can't wait to go to the

MAIL BOX

in the next few weeks

to see if

WE

GOT MAIL!

Wordless Wednesday

Our Training Challenge + a Trick

Mom started to use this basket as something for us to go around while working on our following technique, but Tytus ended up having a fun idea and it turned into a new trick.

We ended up compiling a couple of things into this: learning a new trick, practicing our patients challenge -- which we are still working very hard at.  Sometimes we do wonderful and others times we forget and just want to join in the fun.



We even ended up taking the basket along with us on our visit to Cliff View Senior Living and tried it in front of our fans. We need more practice before we try that again in front of them -- although we did get a few smiles and that is what we are there to do.