4 PawPrints Pupdate Welcome to the first 4 Paws for Ability Pupdate!

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1 4 Paws PupDate January - April PawPrints Pupdate Welcome to the first 4 Paws for Ability Pupdate! The Pupdate will be a bimonthly update on new service puppies in training, service dog mom and dad promotions, fab flunkie updates, and info and pictures from our volunteer programs! Did we mention pictures?! The first edition covers January - April so it's got a lot of new paws in it! We hope this publication will bring a smile to your face!

2 4 Paws Puppy Program These puppies were all recently born at 4 Paws for Ability. They begin the Puppy Enrichment Program immediately, in hopes that one day they will becomes service dogs! To see more puppy pictures, visit our Facebook page dedicated to our dogs: 4 Paws Dogs Learn more about our breeding program: %20June% pdf

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19 4 Paws Breeding Parents These puppies were all recently promoted to the breeding program at 4 Paws for Ability. Selection to the breeding program is the best promotion! These pups are the best of the best when it comes to temperament, soundness of health, and breed conformation. A deep, sincere thank you to the to the puppy raisers and volunteers who raised these dogs to have the best possible chance of success in the service dog program and guided them on their way to promotion. To see more pictures of our moms and dads, visit their album on our 4 Paws Dogs Facebook page. Learn more about our breeding program: %20June% pdf

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23 Volunteer Trainers, Evening and Weekend Sitters Our Puppy Raiser program puts service dogs in training into homes for basic obedience, house manners, and socialization until they are ready to return for advance training around the age of a year old. 4 Paws supplies the tools and information necessary to be successful in puppy raising. Puppy raisers supply love, care, and lots of fun socialization experiences! Want to volunteer? Find out more on our website!

24 When you pick up your new puppy to raise and you just can't contain yourself!

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26 Onsite Volunteers As a nonprofit organization, we depend heavily on volunteers! People who volunteer at 4 Paws for Ability can become Bath Buddies, Field Friends, Puppy Partners, or Scrub Club members among lots of other fun jobs! Check out these pictures of puppies from around 4 Paws and the awesome volunteers who are cleaning, working, and of course playing with them everyday! Want to volunteer? Find out how on our website!

27 Better as buddies... Fabulous flunkies are FABULOUS dogs who aren't suited to service dog work for one reason or another. These dogs are wonderful pets and make their

28 humans very happy. Fab Flunkie Corner will give us a chance to catch up with some great pups in their new pet homes! Frosty Finds Her Home We made it home with Frosty. Shane, Sebastian and William love her already! I love this photo of Sebastian giving Frosty kisses in her ear. Frosty attached herself to me quickly. She is so sweet and we love her. Thank you for allowing me to adopt her. I think she will fit perfect with our family as her forever home. Wiki Wiggles into her new home and hearts On November 1, we adopted Wiki, and our lives are forever changed by this lovable little girl. I can honestly say I don t know who is more excited to have a girl - Wiki or my daughter Rowan. They re the best of friends, and Wiki certainly loves her little girl to pieces. I ve walked Wiki to school numerous times to pick Rowan up, and all the kids run to her to get high fives; some teachers have even come out to sit and pet her, as she has this calming, de-stressing aura about her. One of the kids asked the principal if Wiki could come in so they can read to her, and he replied Only after she learns how to sign her name. Well, we re currently working on that, because a licked paw and subsequent paw print on concrete is as good as a signature, and a nose print is better than a fingerprint,

29 right? I have information about a therapy dog training session coming up, and I plan on enrolling Wiki into the classes. I ve also contacted Gem City Obedience so they can teach me how to work with Wiki, because this little girl is SMART. Super smart, actually, and I want to make sure her mind stays sharp and she doesn t get bored. I ve contacted Honour, her puppy trainer, and we re planning a road trip to see her this spring so they can reunite and have some fun. Honour has been wonderful, and has sent me photos and given me tips on things to help Wiki get settled. For example, Wiki hated taking car rides, even though I made sure her spot in the back had a custom cut piece of memory foam covered by blankets, as well as a place to hold some toys. Honour told me Wiki liked sitting in the back seat, so I ran out and got a seat cover and now we re traveling buddies. She also gave me tips on how Wiki may react at the groomer, and how to counter-balance that. It wasn t necessary, but certainly appreciated, because she waltzed into Mantra Paws like she owned it, and wowed the staff with how incredibly good she is. She s living a life full of toys, bones, and treats, as well as many daily play sessions and romps around the house. I ve learned she likes to sleep on the bed, with a pillow, in order to keep watch over her house by looking out the window. She s also a VERY hairy little girl, but she loves to be brushed and it s quite relaxing for me or Rowan to sit with her and just brush her and love on her while we re watching TV. She gets along quite well with the neighborhood dogs, and loves to play zoom-zoom next door with her buddy Bits. We recently bought her an LED dog collar so she can go out to potty and we can find her at a glance, and it makes walking with her so fun when her little pink collar is all lit up. We also bought one for our corgi, Gryffyn, so the 2 of them are like mismatched peas in a pod. Speaking of Gryffyn, Wiki has perked him up quite a bit and he s no longer a grumpy old man, but just an old man now (huge improvement on his part, but it took a few weeks of adjustment to get to that point). All in all, Wiki is a WONDERFUL addition to our family, and I can t thank you and the staff at 4 Paws enough for allowing us to come meet her and give her her furever home. She s just what we needed to perk up the household, even thought we didn t know it at the time she came to us. Please let all her handlers

30 Copyright Paws for Ability, All rights reserved. know she is happy, healthy, and thriving; best of all, she has a little girl that would do anything for her, and they both have a best friend in each other, one that will keep all their secrets. With much gratitude, Erin