Kona's Buddy Sarge

Kona had a lovely surprise at work today when "Sarge" a hearing dog St. Poodle from Canine Vision placed with his partner Lou-Anne Desroches, came in for grooming. "Sarge" was a perfect gentleman and I think Kona has a little bit of a crush on him...

What's not to love like her mom she thinks a man in uniform is pretty cute and he is very fit, handsome, charming and smart hmmm sounds a little like her dad come to think about it ;). Lou-Anne is a lovely woman and we enjoyed chatting about our working dogs which led me to think, maybe we should be starting a service, hearing, guide, special skills dog handler support group...so here we go I am officially kicking off our support group and will be doing a face book group and actual get together as well monthly. This will be a great way for people who are partnered with these special dogs to talk over challenges, similarities and laugh about life with one of these amazing dogs. If you happen to know someone who has a working dog for disabilities (many programs have different titles so this is the easiest way for me to describe the general group, please do not be offended if your dog has a different title than one shown as there is no offense intended please feel free to email me to let me know what that title is for you) Please let them know about us and that we would welcome their participation and friendship. I will post the FB group once i have it set up.

Thank You Lou-Anne and Sarge for such a nice visit today and for the inspiration which led me to think of starting this.

Cheers everyone & Remember if your hot out there your fur-friend is far hotter so take care and don't forget side walks and asphalt get very hot in this heat and we humans have a hard time realizing this with our shoes on. Take a moment and put your hand on the ground every once in a while to see how hot it is on your buddy's feet, they sure will appreciate the extra effort and you will save them a lot of pain and potential injury.

Lisa & Kona