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Tope | September 2024

Tope | September 2024

This month, Tope has been continuing to work on her PTSD skills and really enjoys it. We have been working on Tope’s appropriate play and recall in the play yard, which has been challenging, but she has improved. Tope still sometimes struggles to keep her beans...
Tope | August 2024

Tope | August 2024

This month, Tope decided that she would like to try skills other than focusing on mobility skills. She is now exploring the skills and career of being a PTSD dog! She is keen on learning these new skills, such as being able to nudge her person as an interrupter skill....
Tope | July 2024

Tope | July 2024

This is an exciting month for Tope! She spent most of it off-site with her advanced sitter, where she got to experience plenty of outings where she worked on her obedience, durations, and foundations. Later in the month, she spent some time on-site, and I can happily...
Tope | June 2024

Tope | June 2024

This month, Tope spent time with different Advanced Training Sitters while waiting to be assigned to an Advanced Trainer’s string. Skills being Learned: Generalization of skills in unfamiliar or high distraction environments, default leave-it of food on the...
Tope | May 2024

Tope | May 2024

It has been an exciting May for Tope, as she has officially started her Advanced Training adventure! She came in for a week on the Burnaby campus to be assessed and see how truly wonderful she is. Tope did have some feelings about being in the kennel environment,...
Tope | April 2024

Tope | April 2024

Tope spent this month with a new handler so that her puppy raiser could take on raising a baby PADS puppy. Tope willΒ be startingΒ PADS University next month, so we have been working on maintaining and refining her skills.Β  Some field trips include attending the Paddle...
Tope | February 2024

Tope | February 2024

I got my freedom back this month! After my heat kept me close to home in January, February was my time to explore and get some training/work done! This month started off with a group of us puppies meeting at Canadian Tire to work on our durations, it was hard work...
Tope | January 2024

Tope | January 2024

Well, the new year has started off with a very low-key and relaxing January! A couple of days after my raiser picked me up after the holidays, my 2nd heat started! This has put a little bit of a delay on my turn-in which was meant to be in February with my siblings,...
Tope | December 2023

Tope | December 2023

I hope everyone had a restful and happy holiday and new year. I started off the month by getting used to being back with my raiser after our puppy swap. I really enjoyed staying with PADS Lohn’s raiser but definitely missed my work people (and they missed me)....
Tope | November 2023

Tope | November 2023

November started with the most Epic adventure! We went all the way to Kelowna, stopping at some really cool places on the way, and I had my first stay in a hotel. My raiser said I did excellent both in the truck and staying in the hotel even if she had to squeeze my...
Tope | October 2023

Tope | October 2023

Spooky season is upon us! Well, that’s what my raiser kept saying this month.Β  I started off this month with lots of different adventures. I met up with PADS Electra for a trip around Home Depot, sold Spark cookies, went to the cinema and that very busy store...
Tope | September 2023

Tope | September 2023

This month started with a bang with a fantastic trip to the PNE, for both a BBQ lunch with my raisers co-workers and then my first concert. I did super well at Super Dogs, I didn’t even notice all the dogs as I was fast asleep right up until the end! Then gave...
Tope | August 2023

Tope | August 2023

August started out with lots of fun getting ready for PRIDE! I had spent the last week of July and the first couple of days with the sitter Corina who took me out to meet lots of new friends including a beach day with PADS Wrigley who is only 6 months and liked to try...
Tope | July 2023

Tope | July 2023

This month I turned 1 year old! It’s strange to think of all of the amazing experiences I’ve had in such a short time, I even got to go to and see a football match with PADS Parker this month. We started off the month with a party to celebrate all of the...
Tope | June 2023

Tope | June 2023

June was MOVE for PADS month where my raiser and I aimed to complete 300,000 steps to fundraise for PADS and we did it!!! A total of 311,945 steps and $610 raised! The first half of the month was pretty low-key as I was finishing my first heat, with some long line...
Tope | May 2023

Tope | May 2023

This month started off with lots of fun and excitement with lots of off-leash and hybrid walks and play dates! All of the cherry blossom trees lost their blossoms, so my raiser decided to do a photoshoot with some very pretty results. I have noticed she does like to...
Tope | April 2023

Tope | April 2023

Spring is here! As my raiser is going through her photos she’s beginning to realize that April was a Guiding month with lots of Sparks and Guides activities which I really enjoyed. We started off the month at a Guide STEM event which I loved, all of the guides...
Tope | March 2023

Tope | March 2023

This month started out very wet and still a bit cold, and I had a very exciting visit to the outdoor expo, and got to go on the Seabus before going to have a sleepover with one of my favourite people, puppy sitter Becke! I’ve been working super hard on my dog...
Tope | February 2023

Tope | February 2023

This month was so much FUN! I got to spend 2 weeks with a different raiser, in a different house, with a senior dog ‘friend’. It was a little hard at first learning to take turns (I’m an only puppy at my normal raisers), and the puppy swap raiser...
Tope | January 2023

Tope | January 2023

Happy New Year!!! My raiser keeps asking, “Where did January go”, and I’m not too sure what that means, but I had a good month, even if apparently, it went by really quickly, though I did turn 6 months old! After what seemed like forever of working...
Tope | December 2022

Tope | December 2022

December was sooooooo much Fun!!! First, I got to go and see my first Canucks game. I really liked it when they scored as my raiser gave me lots of kibbles so I could celebrate with the cheering and the siren! It was a very long night, but I strutted my stuff around...
Tope | November 2022

Tope | November 2022

My raiser left me!! Well, she apparently went back to see her family in England, and I got to spend 10 days with some fantastic sitters and a new friend Simone (PADS released). I had lots of fun learning to settle in a new and exciting environment and learning that I...
Tope | October 2022

Tope | October 2022

I’ve spent this month growing!!! My raiser was not impressed that she had to buy me a new bed at the end of the month as I grew out of the small one pretty quickly! I’ve shown my raiser that I can be super smart at times, quickly learning new skills but...
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Help Fund My Training! #WOOF I'M SOCIALFacebookGoogle+ Tope is being raised and trained to provide life-changing independence to someone with a physical disability other than visual impairment or to work with a professional such as a teacher, psychologist or...