Farrah's favourite show: the Littlest Hobo

The other morning, the Littlest Hobo came on TV. Farrah came running up to the front of the TV and watched for over 5min! It was so cute.

Cabin building dog

Farrah has many talents, and for the past 2 months she's been sharpening her construction skills. We have been building a small cabin the interlake, about 2hrs north of Winnipeg. Farrah seems to want to be involved in every step of the process. Not sure how she'll help with the roof yet, but I'm sure she'll find a way.

Farrah the Forest Dog

We're building a small cabin a couple hours north of Winnipeg. We've been busy prepping the lot and often just Farrah and I go up there on our own to clear the trees, plot out the building, do this and that etc. Once in a while Farrah decides I'm spending too much time with the chain saw and not enough time with her, so she puts on a show for me to get my attention (or at least that's my interpretation...or else she just likes playing by herself). Luckily I had the camera close by to catch her in action today.

Photo from the roof...

here's the final product taken from the roof of Manitoba House, that we all sweated it out for, celebrating 100 years of St John Ambulance in Manitoba. The SJA emblem is all flowers, planted to commemorate the occasion. See below post for more info on the event.

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!