Clancy and I tried to enter the “The Secret Life of Pets” live animal casting audition where you have your pet re-enact a scene from the movie trailer. Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, our video submission wasn’t accepted. It’s still pretty cute, so please check it out below and enjoy!
Also, please come back soon to hear about Clancy’s latest adventures, see great pics and most importantly, get ideas to enrich your dog’s lives. 🙂
The month of June was all about catching up on work and other things after our Colorado trip, but I plan on writing some substantive blog posts soon, so please check back in the near future!
From the winery to “taking the plunge” in the Chesapeake Bay to being at the library listening to children read books to dock diving to obedience trials to visiting New York City to visiting patients at the hospital to winning a dog trick contest to spending time with beloved family from near and far, Clancy the Keeshond (and I) have had a very busy past couple of months. Check out some “snapshots” of Clancy’s summer below! Then, please remember to check back in a couple of weeks when we share our experiences and encouragement of doing therapy dog work in a new blog post!
Clancy through the grape vine! Clancy enjoyed the K9s in the Vines wine tasting animal rescue fundraiser event this late summer.
“Bang-Bang!” Clancy won the Dog Trick contest at the K9s in the Vines dog fundraiser event, followed by fellow trick dog friends Aria and Amelia.
Clancy in his therapy dog role at the library. He provided a friendly, furry and non-judgmental ear to children helping them with their reading skills.
Clancy in the Big Apple! Clancy traveled to New York City for the day.
Last month, we tried for our second leg of our CDX Obedience title, but NQ’d (didn’t qualify) due to a failure to drop on recall. That’s okay, we try again this coming weekend and hope to achieve our title the following weekend!
Who do you think was the fluffiest dog in the Chesapeake Bay doing the SPCA “Puppy Plunge” fundraiser event held in August?
Clancy created many smiles with his trick performances during therapy dog visits and also recently at a child’s birthday party .
In August, Clancy qualified for more legs towards his next dock diving title!
We look forward to sharing many of these experiences more in detail in future blog posts to hopefully encourage others to seek out and do more activities with their dog. Coming soon: A new blog post to share our experiences and encouragement of doing therapy dog work! We’re also working on a new blog post on dog tricks!
Tomorrow (Saturday) is the Keeshond Karnival and Symposium hosted by the Keeshond Club of Delaware Valley and as our last dog trick video leading up to it, I’m going to share one of Clancy and I’s first stage acts at a dog talent show from last year.
We hope to share even more tricks that Clancy has learned since this performance tomorrow around 1pm (it will be a challenge with how hot it is going to be) and please look for more trick videos in the near future. Clancy still has many more tricks up his furry sleeve! I have to count up how many milestones we have hit on the www.KeesRescue.com petition to make sure I have posted that amount of dog tricks. I still have a couple of other stage acts I need to publish (still having technical difficulties and need more time.)
We hope to see many of you tomorrow at Washington Crossing State Park in Titusville, NJ! As a reminder, bring your own picnic lunch! I hear there is water on site and baby pools will be available for your Keesies to cool off in. The event is approximately from 10 am – 3pm and the order of events should be as follows:
Smelly Dog Treat Hunt
Agility Demo and Walkthrough
Best Dutchman’s Trousers
Best Dutchmen’s Grin
Longest Tail
Musical Squares
Lunch
Trick Show (starring Fancy Clancy!)
Raffle
Name that Body Part
Recall Competition
Fastest Eater in the Park
Presenting Your Keeshond to the Public
Grooming
Clancy wins 1st place at the 2014 Maryland DogFest talent show… he also won it in 2013 and for the third strait time in 2015! Here he is holding a gift bag with his 1st Place certificate next to two of his famous trick props.
Sorry for the late post! Been a busy day with work and family stuff!
Yesterday you saw the video of Clancy going to get his leash and harness so he could go for a walk, today you get to see him “take a doggie for a walk”. These dog trick videos are dedicated to helping to bring attention to #FreeTheKees, telling New York to strengthen and enforce their puppy mill laws so that over 50 Keeshonden being neglected at Marjorie’s Kennel in Harpursville, NY will have a chance to be rescued like the 51 of them that already have been who are now living a quality life in the hands of caring people. Clancy’s “Dog Trick of the Day” has also been to promote the Keeshond Karnival and Symposium that will be held this Saturday! Enjoy!
There’s not many things cuter than a Keeshond walking a toy dog! Come see him do it in person this Saturday!
We’re only a few days away from the Keeshond Karnival and Symposium at the Washington Crossing State Park in Titusville, New Jersey and today’s Dog Trick video of the Day is Clancy doing a useful trick in order to just go out and do a common dog thing. Please watch his video below.
Thought of the day: Please remember how the Keeshonden and other dogs stuck in puppy mills like Marjorie’s Kennel in Harpursville, New York never have the chance to take a walk (as well as never getting the chance of being petted and loved, not getting vet care, proper nutrition, etc. etc.). Learn how you can help #FreeTheKees at www.KeesRescue.com Do NOT support puppy mills… ALWAYS find out where your puppy/dog is coming from and make sure their parents are being well cared for (and health tested, conform to breed standards, etc.) or rescue. Here is good advice to help you make sure you are not inadvertently supporting a puppy mill (which is likely the case if you buy from a pet store or the Internet) – Finding a Good Dog Breeder
P.S. Sorry that the video isn’t the best quality, I’m still suffering technical difficulties and am resorting to using my cell phone to record new videos.
Clancy does do normal dog activities like going for a walk too! He just gets his own leash and harness for you!
In the meantime, I have to improvise with today’s trick video, so please enjoy a unique trick Clancy taught himself very quickly… opening up a locked child gate!
Each day leading up to the event, visit our blog to see one of Clancy’s tricks! (P.S. Yes, I reposted this dog trick video that was created over a year ago. The day got away from me! However, it’s always fun to watch Clancy playing basketball! Look for a new dog trick video tomorrow!)
Wowzers! We are suddenly closing in on 150,000 signatures on the #FreeTheKees petition at www.KeesRescue.com and my Keeshond, Clancy, and I are thrilled that the cause so near and dear to our heart is finally getting the attention it deserves!
Originally, I said I would post a video of Clancy doing a dog trick for every 5000 signatures on the petition telling New York Governor Cuomo and the New York State Department of Agriculture to enforce their own puppy mill laws. Specifically to enforce Charlemagne’s Law, which Marjorie’s Kennel, a puppy mill of Keeshonden and a couple of other northern breeds in Harpursville, NY, is clearly violating. I recently had to change it to every milestone met on the petition because I couldn’t keep up with all of the wonderful people that believe Marjorie’s dogs should have a better life than just being breeding machines while trying to survive outside in the New York sub-zero winter temperatures.
So here’s a new short video demonstrating many of the dog tricks and things that Clancy can do. It’s a compilation of many parts of trick videos we’ve already produced (with a new “play and stay dead”). I’m submitting demo videos to animal talent agents so I thought I would share them to help begin fulfilling my promise of Clancy’s tricks for petition signatures. This is demo video #1.
Clancy and I have a lot of work to do. It might take some time since I still have to earn a living, but we will be happy to be in debt to you all for HUNDREDS of trick videos as long as everyone keeps the pressure on New York and Marjorie to #FreeTheKees. Let all those dogs become the wonderful pets they were meant to be. Learn more at www.KeesRescue.com. Like the Free The Kees Facebook page to learn of other ways to help, too!
A New York 101 Kees, “Reggie”, playing basketball.
Clancy and I would like to give a big WOOF out to Mary Lynch and “Reggie”. “Reggie” is one of the Keeshonden rescued from Marjorie’s Puppy Mill and has already become an Expert Trick Dog (and Mary is working with him to become the next Keeshond Trick Dog Champion).
Congrats, Mary and “Reggie”… and to all the wonderful people that have rehabilitated the dogs that have been rescued from Marjorie’s Puppy Mill so far!
This just proves that every dog is capable of so much. One of the many reasons why we need to just put a stop to puppy mills.
So, while I work on recording new material, here’s a video from Clancy’s last Obedience trial that we were in just last weekend (hey, these are considered dog tricks! Especially the one Clancy created in the show ring here.)
Oh, the Keesie sense of humor. …. ‘Til next time, remember, you are your dog’s world. Be his best friend! ~ SSB
Keep spreading the word to help the turn over of neglected Keeshonden in Marjorie’s Kennel to Keeshond Rescue, for we are closing in on 15,000 signatures on the #FreeTheKees petition on www.KeesRescue.com. That means it’s time to start thinking about which of Clancy’s tricks to feature in his next trick video.
With so many tricks up Clancy’s furry sleeves (he knows well over 100 commands so far), it’s hard to decide which one(s) to show off next! (I do already have something fun and unique planned when we reach 20,000 signatures.) So, I’m going to let the Clancy fans decide!
Which trick would you like to see next??? Whichever trick below has the most votes on the day that the petition reaches 15,000 signatures, will be the next video we make and post! You may vote once each day. (P.S. The “Other” field is for fun and to hear what ideas you might have. No promises!)
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