Lend A Paw: August 2012

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Welcome to the Lend A Paw Blog!
Where you can find up to date information about the program, current LAP teams and LAP therapy dogs candidates, scheduled visits, and much more.
Lend A Paw is committed to enhancing the lives of individuals experiencing physical, mental, emotional or life challenges by providing therapy dogs to offer warmth, compassion, unconditional love and a healing environment. The program is designed to rescue dogs from the shelter and train them to be therapy dogs. Individuals are also invited to join our LAP team with their own dogs provided the dogs have the required obedience and temperament for therapy work.

Friday, August 31, 2012

Scheduled Visits - September 2012

Here is a calendar of all Lend A Paw scheduled visits for the month of September 2012. Click on an event to see details about the visit. Choose the event(s) you wish to participate in and contact the Leader of the site to RSVP.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Congratulations Roxie!

All that practice and hard work paid off! Roxie passed her Therapy Dog Certification Exam on Saturday 7/21/12 and is now ready to go to work! We first introduced Roxie in November 2011; Sharon Newman, a Certified Lend A Paw Handler, was raising Roxie to become a certified therapy dog. Roxie is a Golden Retriever who, even as a puppy, loved people and wanted to please them.

Roxie is proudly wearing her Lend A Paw vest!

Her first visit as a newly Certified therapy dog was at the Jewish Home for the Aging, where she made the residents extremely happy!

"I look forward to many years of visits with her to a variety of places, bringing happiness and love to so many people", says Newman.

Congratulations Sharon and Roxie! And thank you for your services!

Story by Nathalie Seguin, photo courtesy of Sharon Newman.