St. John Ambulance Marks 100 Years in Manitoba

Today we attended a ceremony celebrating 100 years of the St John Ambulance in Manitoba. A few therapy dog teams were selected to attend to represent the >100 therapy dog teams in the province. There were three parts to the day: 1) attending the official presentation in the provincial Legislature building 2) a celebration luncheon in the courtyard 3) a photoshoot around the new St John Ambulance flower garden on the legislature grounds. Of course all the dogs were fantastic, and really were great ambassadors for the therapy dog program. The hardest part of the day was dealing with the heat! It hit 37.0 oC today. The photographer was a little slow, so we had to spend quite a bit of time waiting, in the heat and direct sun! It was too much to take for a human in black pants, never mind a dog in a fur coat!

It was fun bringing Farrah into the Provincial Legislature. When you walk in, there are 2 giant bison at the bottom of the great stairs, so of course we snapped a photo there. We also took a couple shots around the legislature fountains after it was all said and done.

Paws with a Cause

Farrah and I have been working as a therapy dog team for the past 8 months now. This past spring Farrah was chosen to the Poster-Dog for the Paws with a Cause program, a pilot program where therapy dog teams do group visitations to old adult facilities. One of the facilities we visit is sponsored by the Age and Opportunity association. The photoshoot was in the spring, and it was a lot of fun. Farrah really loved working it in front of the camera, and most of the photos were just of her...I was only in a handful of the shots. The annual report for the Age and Opportunity society was just released and we made it onto page 4!

Here's what was published:

The full report can be found here on the Age and Opportunity website

Happy Birthday!

Today Farrah (and the rest of the first Story/Nero litter) turned 2! To celebrate us humans enjoyed a delicious chocolate cake from our local bakery, and Farrah feasted on fresh rabbit and some choice biscuits with ice cream.

Now we get ready for the terrible twos!