Nikon D60 : 24mm : shutter 1/40 : aperture f /8 : ISO 400 Kona enjoys the setting sun and the cool lawn after a busy day.
Tag Archives: pet therapy
Home Pet Therapy
This weekend Kona put his pet therapy skills to use at home, when S had a cooking mishap and ended up burning his had quite badly. Home from the emergency room, Kona checks out his new patient. He spent all afternoon right beside S on the couch, making sure he didn’t feel too bad. For …
Dogs For Soldiers
With our own Kona being a registered therapy dog, we have seen first hand what a difference these dogs can make to people working through physical rehabilitation and PTSD. All it takes is a click on your part to help get dogs to soldiers. Please click through to like their Facebook page. From the foundation: …
Pet Therapy Prep
Today Kona was very happy to get his new business cards. What? A dog with business cards you ask? Yes indeed, Kona uses them when he is on his pet therapy rounds. Here’s Kona, showing off some of his new cards. Close up… Kona got a selection of new cards. These are all of them… …
18/52 : Kona – Glamour Shot
Nikon D60 : 55mm : shutter 1/100: aperture f /5: ISO 400 Kona strikes a pose after his bath, pre-pet therapy rounds today. Promptly after I took this photo, he dug a massive hole under the lemon tree and sat in it. So much for clean:)
7/52 : Kona – For Spencer
It was 2 years ago today we lost our Spencer. He still makes me smile everyday, especially when I remember how he would pick up 3 tennis balls at the same time and “talk” to me. Kona can only do one tennis ball at a time but it makes him happy to have many. I …
Speech Therapy
This was a busy week for Kona. First we visited a few nursing homes to spread some holiday cheer. Kona dressed as reindeer to get into the festive spirit. (Again there is all kinds of legal issues to take pictures with residents and patients so we can only post Kona:) And yesterday we were back …
A Well Deserved Nap
Kona taking a well deserved nap after a busy day volunteering at the hospital. Is there anything better than a squishy face:)
Weekend Smile
Kona is all smiles after a morning volunteering for pet therapy at the hospital. Hope you all have a GReat weekend!
The Doctor Is In.
Well, the therapist is in anyway:) Kona is loving working at the hospital as a pet therapy dog. He helps stroke and brain trauma patients work on their motor skills by having them throw toys for him to retriever or by brushing and petting him. To work on their memories, patients try to remember things …
Raja-Remembering The Original Red Dog
In loving memory of Raja April 7, 1997 – March 1, 2006 Raja was an amazing Golden Retriever who taught me the most important things in life: play hard, love harder and enjoy the moment, each and every one of them. I have never met anyone who lived life better than Raja. Though thick and …
Spencer-Remembering The Love.
In loving memory of Spencer March 1, 1998 – February 17, 2009 It is hard to believe it has been a year since we lost Spencer to cancer. I still laugh out loud when I think of some of his antics. He was an amazing dog who touched many other lives besides ours. An old …
Foster Updates
We thought we’d share some news we’ve recently gotten on some of our past fosters…. Sunny came to stay with us and Spencer and foster, Jessy, in March 2007. This 10 week old sweetie was full of Golden puppy energy. She and Jessy (4 months old) were a little Golden tornado whirling through the house …
Remembering Spencer
It is 5 months today that we lost Spencer to hemangiosarcoma. There is not a day goes by that we don’t remember Spencer, sometimes with a few tears but mostly with a smile or laugh. This week was our 13th wedding anniversary and it made me remember the trip we took up to Carmel for …
Titus-adjusting
Titus is adjusting to his foster life and revealing his true personality. Every foster dog takes some time to adjust and we respect that (except Jake… he was at home from day one… he was the only foster we had that slept a whole night through the first night!) . You never know what these dogs have lived through and can only speculate as to what as …
Titus-Mission: Squirrel
Titus had a busy day today. First he was whisked off to the vets for a full exam. He wasn’t very thrilled that this was the start of his day so we made it up to him by spending some of the afternoon at the “squirrel” park. All our dogs love this park because there …
Sky & Jake
Sky & Jake are a good example of the different shades Golden Retrievers come in. We’ve had reds and golds and they are both very pretty or handsome in the case of these 2 fellows. Sky is trying to entice Jake to play but they have very different styles of playing. Sky likes to wrestle …
Remembering The Original Red Dog
Today would have been the 12th birthday of our first Golden Retriever, Raja. He was our first heart dog, the one who taught me what really matters in life. I have never met anyone, human or dog, that lived every day to it’s fullest as well as Raja. He savored each moment like a new …
Feeling Festive.
Christmas is almost here and I am one lucky pup, getting lots of presents. My friend Wally and his mom gave me a very nice set of Christmas tennis balls… look how festive they are! There are 6 of them but I can only fit 3 at a time, BOL! Yesterday was my day …
Action.
The sun came back (it’s LA, it never goes away for long!) and I had a GReat day yesterday playing. Can you see how hard I am wagging my tail? I am waiting for my human to throw the tennis balls. After a good game of catch we sat on the step and watched all …