Windara Labrador Retrievers: WEST COAST Service Dogs ... and now NEW OCTOBER 2016 PAWSITIVE INDEPENDENCE SERVICE DOGS

KAI

September 2019

EMMIE, McKenna and KAI (MUST BE FOOD INVOLVED)

October 2018

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Wrigley at a beach in Oregon.

Holiday soon over and back to the classroom with Margaret

Service dog in training "CLAIR" from Windara's August 2016 litter

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Have a great week everyone! Remember my wish for everyone this year is

"to be kind to one another", friends, spouses, significant others,

and the people you bump into or pass everyday!

Our world needs and deserves it!!

Love, Wrigs and I

...and Wrigs loves treats!

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Windara puppy donation to Pawsitive Independence

October 20/2016

Me and a female puppy going away for training

She has no name yet

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A SERVICE DOG AT WORK!

Ha Ha -just posing at a roadside photo booth in BC.

Wrigs even has a smurk on his face like he's thinking "this is crazy!"

WRIGLEY has accomplished choosing a package of bones from the grocery store

and getting them home without puncturing the saran wrap!

March 21/16

Service dog ELLIE is ready for Easter

Feb 4/2015

Ellie (and friend Oliver)

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EMMIE- ELF ON A SHELF

Is Emmie 1/ trying out the new double bed?

2/ resting on the job?

3/being goofy?

4/ trying to get into the Christmas spirit?

(picture sent from her partner)

Tessa and McKenna are quite a team

Tessa says " Not sure whether I should laugh or be concerned? McKenna just took himself out for a potty break. Literally pushed all the elevator and door buttons, swiped the fob and even better hurried all on his own.

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Thought you might enjoy seeing WRIGLEY

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PARKER 6 months Big job picking out a pumpkin for Hallowe'en

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Here is ZACH at 9 month of age. Takes willpower to NOT eat the salami ,but can't stop the drools! Oh the things a service dog in training has to go thru!

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WEST COAST TEAMS latest Windara puppy. PARKER

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JULY 1ST 2013 CANADA DAY parade in Vancouver Bev and ELLIE braving the heat

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Emmie struggling to be COOL!

Three WINDARA dogs. The black Labs are at work, and the yellow puppy, ZACK is in training.

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EMMIE was so stinkin cute as a puppy. She is doing well with her puppy raiser. They live on a farm and Emmie has created a special bond with their horse!

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West Coast posted this Father's Day card on FACEBOOK, the sire of numerous great puppies!

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puppy raiser Cecile with Emmie in training Bev with her partner, Ellie

Hi June

So great to see all those sweet new puppies on your site. Good thing you retired or you would never get any rest ,between work and puppies. Ellie and I are doing great! I always have to plan an extra 1/2 hour or more when we go out in public because I get stopped so often so people can admire Ellie. The other day we went to Walmart to shop and a lady came up to us and said "Your Lab is the best lab I have ever seen as a Service Dog and I have bred them for many years, where did she come from" of course I told her about Windara, I was so proud of having both Ellie and you to talk about and how you have helped to make my life to be so much easier to live! I hope more little wiggly tiny babies will grow up into Hero Dogs just like the first three dogs you donated to West Coast Team three years ago, Kenna,, Journey and of course my best friend my Hero Dog, Ellie!

Bev

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Zach, what are you thinking???

(6 months old)

Zach snored all the way from Regina to Abbotsford

Thankyou WestJet for the wonderful flight

I get to meet Bev and Ellie

Zach meeting Sharon and puppy raiser , Cathy

October 21/2012 GRADUATION DAY for 3 WINDARA dogs. Congratulations to the new teams from WINDARA KENNEL

Thankyou to WEST COAST TEAMS for all your hard work.

Bev with Ellie

Ken with Journey

Tessa with Kenna

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Jersey and Emmie on their way to WEST COAST TEAMS in Vancouver, compliments of WestJet

NOTE: October 2012 Jersey was given a change of career as she was not focused enough to continue training for a service dog. Jersey will be adopted into suitable home in British Columbia.

Emmie is continuing training with puppy raiser Cecile.

WEST COAST has chosen two females Feb, 2012

JERSY and EMMIE

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Just a little sneak preview of a WINDARA dog named Ellie with her chosen partner Beverley.

Graduation is set for spring of 2012!!!!!!!!

WATCH FOR THE GRADUATION OF ELLIE, JOURNEY AND KENNA

Hi my name is Beverley and I am the proud Mom of one of your puppies, Ellie, whom you very generously donated to West Coast Teams. I can not ever thank you enough for this wonderful little girl- she means everything to me! You see I have multiple sclerosis and a brain tumour. At night I often have choking spells and I can't breathe. Ellie stands over me and helps me to a sitting position and she helps me to calm me down in the darkness while the spasm relaxes and I can start to breath again. She has also got so used to these attacks that she notices them just before they happen and will wake me up first, so I don't wake from a sound sleep and start to panic on top of trying to breathe. She has learned to retrieve the phone for me, will pick up dropped items - my keys, wallet, coins, credit cards, mail etc. She retrieves her dish to be fed and her leash to go out. Ellie tugs a rope to help me sit up in bed and she takes my socks off and helps me take my jacket off. I sometimes fall down and can not get up on my own, so Ellie stands in front of me and braces and I use her like a bench to get back up off the ground. Ellie closes my door for me and waits for me to lock it, and she pushes buttons to open doors. She faithfully marches along beside my wheelchair wherever we venture. She is much more to me than an assistance dog you see... she is my Hero dog and you were the very first step in making this happen, so Thanks again for my Hero dog - Ellie !

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Niko and partner

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Bailey... inspiring!

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Puppy raiser Mike with Bravo

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Wrigley and Sharon

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Just love this picture- knowing that Kenna is giving Tessa real independence.! These two are making a great team. WATCH THEM GO!!!!!!!!!

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Taking Emmie and Jersey to fly to Vancouver February 2012

Today history was made! The first two service puppies to fly compliments of WEST JET

THANKYOU WEST JET

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INTRODUCING YOU TO FOUR SPECIAL PUPPIES

THANKYOU TO WEST COAST TEAMS,VANCOUVER

Bravo, Nikon, Bailey and Wrigley

I'm holding #10 BRAVO will be his name

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                                                         SLEEPING ON THE JOB??

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Puppies (BRAVO,WRIGLEY,BAILEY AND NICO) WAITING FOR THEIR VACCINATIONS WITH THEIR PUPPY RAISERS.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Just showing you Windara's three service dogs on Hallowe'en

KENNA

JOURNEY

KENNA with his TRAINER

BEVERLEY with ELLIE

Three WINDARA dogs

Hi June:
Sorry I haven't written. I forget sometimes because now we mainly do everything through our organizations facebook that not everyone sees that.
So I thought I'd send some shots from puppy class last night. You haven't seen these guys in a little while. By the way the pups look beautiful. I love the picture of the one right in the bowl. Priceless.
Take care,
Sharon
This is Journey as Supergirl

Kenna is our Pumpkin

This is Kenna's trainer Amelia (she loves him!) and they are doing a great job together. I'll be looking for a client for him soon and Amelia will do their team training

And of course you know Bev with Ellie.

Here they all are together. Ellie, Samantha(my curly coat) Luna (another trainers dog)Kenna & Journey

Sharon - West Coast

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Is this Ellie or Journey or Kenna? Summer 2011

(This is Ellie)

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West Coast has regular fundraisers to pay for things like vet bills for their dogs. This is "JOURNEY' the POSTER GIRL!

JOURNEY IS FROM WINDARA KENNEL

The day West Coast Teams came from Vancouver to choose the first three puppies we donated

Here I am holding Ellie

Here are WINDARA'S JUST SINGIN' ROUND (ELLIE)

WINDARA'S MCKENNA GOES GREEN (KENNA)

and WINDARA ALL MY GRACE'S (JOURNEY) in VANCOUVER

We are so pleased 3 of our puppies were chosen from our January 2010 litter by West Coast Assistance Teams! These puppies are going into training to become psychiatric assistance dogs. See blog for more pictures