Guess what came in the mail today!!

Today is a great day.  The rack cards came in and Pepsi's registration came in.  He is now a fully fledged therapy dog.  Now we can continue on the road to therapy!!  The rack cards will be handed out on visitations!

Oh I'm in trouble now....

So I wrote about Pepsi passing his CGC but not his therapy work...  he passed his therapy work with flying colours too.  Jo observed him the last two times and was very impressed with him.  Especially since the day he got his tail stepped on and his ear / nose grabbed by a very excitable child.  Pepsi, of course, doesn't want to go back and neither do I.

He has passed all his therapy evaluations,  I sent the paperwork off and can't wait to receive our certificate.  He is one clever dog!!  Yet another notch in his belt!!!

AKC Good Canine Citizenship Test

Well we took the test today.  Mattie was the photographer and took videos.  She did a great job.  Pepsi Passed with flying colours.... We all knew he would.  He is an excellent doggie!

More pix of Pepsi's pups

Angel's human Mum sent me more pix of the pups.   They will be four weeks old in two days (wednesday).  One girl and three boys.

pic 1- boy
pic 2- all pups
pic 3 - girl with white boy

Pepsi's little road trip!!

Pepsi and I went for a little road trip to Leesburg Florida today.  It was a lot of fun meeting Sandy from Serenity's Chihuahuas.  She gave us a lot of pointers on how to stack, walking around the ring, free stacking and grooming.  And she thinks he is very cute!! She even gave us a show lead!!  She is one very nice lady.  I can't wait to see her and her dogs again. 

So we are going to work on a few things so we will be ready for the show circuit this summer!!!

Play dates and swimming

Yesterday evening we went to Kelly's house for pizza.  She has a cute chi named Bella and a large lab named Diesel.  My girls had fun in the pool.  Walt fixed Kelly's computer, and I did bad bad things with Pepsi... ok, maybe not so bad but it depends who tells the story.

I put Pepsi in the pool.  Kelly's dogs seem to like it, especially Diesel.  Pepsi was okay.  He just sort of stood there.  But he did seem pretty mad when I wrapped him in a towel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB8Cf9s_Cu0  this is the video of him standing there!!!

Training training and more training....

Sorry I haven't written anything in a while.  I have been busier then usual.  One thing is the training of Pepsi.  I have been working with him a lot.  He goes to a trainer once a week for an hour and we are working on the skills during the week.  I am hoping that when it is time to show he will be in excellent shape to win some points.

This weekend we have the opportunity to do a run through of the AKC canine citizenship test.  He has it mostly down.  Just a few squeaks here and there that need to be polished up.

He is progressing well with the therapy training as well.  The training really kills two birds with one stone.  He is over trained for the therapy work at this point.  He didn't really need all this training but it is good for him.  I was sick the last two weekends so we didn't do anything with the therapy work.  But we are on schedule for this weekend.  We are going to a site to work with children.

I went to the hospital to do the orientation.  I would have brought him along if I had known he was welcome.  Oh well.  It went very well and I have started the paper work so we can do hospital visits.  Just have to wait until he is properly registered and I have the paperwork in hand.  Then we go for an interview to see if we can fit into the hospital setting.

I also got myself a part time job as a gardener.  Some of you know that I love gardening.  I get paid for my time and for the flowers.  This also gives me some spending money for all our doggy needs!!

Tito is charting to be around 2 1/2 lbs fully grown.  In eight days he will be four months old.  He is so tiny, he feels like a 6 week old chi to me, but I have started to train him as well.  He is getting the sit command down, and he did well with the "park it" command.

                                                                     Pepsi and Snickie in the garden.