Friday, October 18, 2019 | Pupdates
Accredited Facility Dog Bowyer Bowyer & Catherine Bowyer & the French Horn Hello, My Name is Bowyer! Bowyer Bowyer in a Birthday Hat We are excited to announce that at PADS 2019 Graduation on October 6th, BOWYER graduated as a Accredited Facility dog....
Friday, October 4, 2019 | Pupdates
We are very exited to announce that BOWYER has passed his pre-placement testing and is ready for placement as an AFD! Way to go Bowyer! He is maintaining his obedience and manners in anticipation of his client match and continues to keep his public access manners...
Friday, September 6, 2019 | Pupdates
BOWYER has been spending his time with his raiser in Northern BC. His raiser, Catherine is a health care professional and Bowyer has been accompanying her to work, getting lots of great practice visiting lots of people and settling in an office environment. Bowyer’s...
Tuesday, August 6, 2019 | Pupdates
BOWYER has been splitting his time between Burnaby and up north with his raisers, alternating between training field trips with Margaret and having some R&R at home. When he is in town, he continues to accompany Margaret on various outings to local schools and...
Friday, July 5, 2019 | Pupdates
BOWYER continues to work with Margaret to assess his future career path. He excels at one-on-one interactions and is particularly good with children. Bowyer is enjoying some R&R up north with his raisers to spend some time training in a home environment. He has...
Friday, June 7, 2019 | Pupdates
BOWYER continues to spend lots of time working with Margaret. This means he gets to accompany her on various outings to local schools and other assorted errands. Bowyer is great with the kids at the schools he visits. The kids and teachers comment on how handsome he...
Monday, May 6, 2019 | Pupdates
BOWYER continues to spend lots of time working with Margaret, assessing him for a potential career as an Accredited Facility Dog. Bowyer has been going on lots of field trips and most recently spent a week at a local school. He is great with children and is very sweet...
Friday, April 5, 2019 | Pupdates
BOWYER is enjoying spending lots of time with his advanced sitters when he is not training with Margaret offsite. Bowyer is practicing building new relationships with different handlers and working on transferring his skills to novel handlers.Skills being learned:...
Friday, March 8, 2019 | Pupdates
BOWYER has transferred to Margaret’s string this month to be further assessed for possible careers as an AFD or PTSD service dog. Bowyer is very much a dog who needs to build a solid relationship with his handler to fully engage, so this month he has been working with...
Friday, February 8, 2019 | Pupdates
BOWYER is being assessed for a career as a PTSD Service dog and has been spending more time in a home environment this month. He is loving the extra attention. Recently he has been going to work with one of our advanced sitters and has been practicing his great office...
Friday, January 4, 2019 | Pupdates
BOWYER has been focusing on his default eye contact and handler spatial awareness in his loose leash walking. He has also been practicing carrying a dumbbell while walking next to a power-chair on site and on field trips. He is doing great so far!Skills being learned:...
Thursday, December 6, 2018 | Pupdates
BOWYER has been doing well with his skills and is getting really good at walking next to a power chair. He likes to go fast! He loves to have a good play in the yard with Sim and Brumby. Skills being learned: ‘Button’, ‘tug’, retrieve foundations, ‘open the door’,...
Friday, November 2, 2018 | Pupdates
BOWYER has recently joined Ashley’s string and has been having fun working on skills. He is great at “light” and “push”! His kennel buddy is Sim and he enjoys playing with Webber and Avery. Skills being learned: “Light”, “button”, “tug”, “push”, retrieve foundations...
Wednesday, August 1, 2018 | Pupdates
Bowyer had a great month at the lake and played well with all the kids. He is eagerly anticipating the results of his assessment 🙂 Submitted by: Catherine...
Sunday, July 1, 2018 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Bowyer spent most of July at the lake with his two best friends and lots of babies, toddlers, and kids. He had great manners and worked hard on his duration sits and downs in very high distraction settings. Submitted by: Catherine...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018 | Pupdates
Bowyer is spending much of June on Vancouver Island. We’re working on impulse control, self-regulation and dog distraction. Here’s a photo of Bowyer practising his duration sit in a moderately high distraction environment. Submitted by: Catherine...
Thursday, March 1, 2018 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Bowyer just had a great weekend with his new best friend, Canyon. Canyon is a one year old Pads dog who has come to stay with us for a month. They spent the weekend running and playing and when they weren’t playing they were sleeping together paw to paw. Bowyer...
Thursday, February 1, 2018 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Bowyer loves the snow! Everytime it snows – and it snows in the Cariboo a lot – he flies around leaping over and through snowbanks and ditches and bounding through the deepest snow he can find. Not surprisingly, he rocked his first hockey game –...
Friday, December 1, 2017 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Bowyer loves the snow and cold and has embraced cross country skiing with great enthusiasm. His favourite thing lately is diving into, onto, and over snowbanks, the deeper the better. We are working on commands in high distraction situations and I’m very excited...
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Bowyer spent most of the month of November on our farm with occasional trips into town. I’ve been working on off-leash commands, duration, and commands from a distance. Submitted By: Catherine...
Friday, September 1, 2017 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Bowyer spent most of the month with puppysitters. He had a great time socializing with Pride and hanging out at the Pads office (where I was told he was much loved by everyone who came by). He had a wonderful time staying with the Hui family, too, where he earned the...
Tuesday, August 1, 2017 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Bowyer learned how to come on bike rides with us this month. He is a super fast learner, doesn’t pull on the leash at all, and loves it when we go fast. I started using a harness on him because sometimes when we’re going uphill he’s a little faster...
Saturday, July 1, 2017 | Lower Mainland, Pupdates
Bowyer came camping with us in Jasper national park for 5 days. Who knew that pretty much every campsite would have at least one dog?! He met a ton of other dogs and started to show progress in learning to say ‘hello’ to them and then disengage/re-engage...
Saturday, February 11, 2017
Help Fund My Training! #WOOF I'M SOCIALFacebookGoogle+ Bowyer is being raised and trained to be an assistance dog for someone with a physical disability or who is deaf or hard-of-hearing. In October, 2018, Bowyer took the next step in his journey and entered...
