Dog of the Month Contest
Please vote for your favorite dog. The top dog will receive a free day care day and a bath! You can also click here to view previous winners.
Fletcher Yellow Lab
How/Why/When your dog joined your family:
Fletcher has been with me since he was 9 weeks old. He is from a breeder who specializes in English Labs.
Special Skills (i.e. Catching a ball in the air, opening the refrigerator without assistance):
Acting Malnourished
Favorite Activities (i.e.”Weeding” the garden, or protecting the world from squeaker toys):
Anything WATER related; especially hoses and sprinklers. He also loves chasing bubbles and getting snacks!
Gordy Hound mix
How/Why/When your dog joined your family:
Gordy joined our family on 9/11/10. He was 5 months old when we adopted him from the Erie County SPCA, who rescued him from a puppy mill in West Virginia. Initially, Gordy was afraid of everything and was extremely timid and shy, but after much love, training and fun at Dog Days, he is a new dog! He has become such a happy kid!!
Special Skills (i.e. Catching a ball in the air, opening the refrigerator without assistance):
Gordy really enjoys his “nose-working” he has developed from his “after school club” with Ms. Rachel, and at home, loves to ring the “dinner bell” for his favorite foods: beef, chicken, bacon, cheese and vanilla pudding!
Favorite Activities (i.e.”Weeding” the garden, or protecting the world from squeaker toys):
Gordy’s favorite activities are going for a run at the park, fetching for sticks, playing at Dog Days (with BFF Archie) and protecting his house, especially from neighborhood cats!
Sophie Border Terrier
How/Why/When your dog joined your family:
We put our Jack Russell Terrier, Storm, to sleep in December 2010. We were going to wait until summer to get another dog. In January 2011, we went to the Dog Show at the Erie County Fair Grounds. Out of all the breeds we fell in love with the Border Terrier. After a few inquiries, we found a Border Terrier breeder from Lockport. We went to look at her puppies and decided not to wait. Sophie became a member of our family in January 2011.
Special Skills (i.e. Catching a ball in the air, opening the refrigerator without assistance):
Sophie is following in her mom and dad’s footsteps, she is training to be an agility dog. She is starting her third round of agility training and is doing great. She isn’t afraid to do any of the apparatus. She runs through tunnels, jumps through a tire, climbs the A frame and can jump 12 inches!
Favorite Activities (i.e.”Weeding” the garden, or protecting the world from squeaker toys):
Sophie loves playing with a tennis ball. She uses her paws like hands moving the ball from room to room. She also loves to jump on it like a rabbit.
Any other details or information you’d like included in your dog’s biography:
Sophie enjoys sitting on our back deck and watching the rabbits in the neighbor’s backyard.
Pepe Bichon/Poodle
How/Why/When your dog joined your family:
PePe first came into our lives while I was doing bookkeeping for my son in law. The church receptionist brought a litter of Bichons to the church to sell them to the neighbors. PePe would not leave my side. He sat at my feet for three hours while I worked when his brothers and sisters were running around and playing with each other. When I was ready to go home, he followed me. When he thought I was leaving him, he began to cry. He looked at me with those charming eyes, begging me to take him home with me. Needless to say, I did. I just couldn’t leave him. He is now truly the love of our lives.
Special Skills (i.e. Catching a ball in the air, opening the refrigerator without assistance):
When he wants a treat, he licks his lips until you give it to him.
Favorite Activities (i.e.”Weeding” the garden, or protecting the world from squeaker toys):
Running around and around the backyard at a very high speed!
Any other details or information you’d like included in your dog’s biography:
PePe is a very loveable dog. At night when he is ready for bed, he begs to get in my lap so that I can cuddle him in my arms and rock him like a baby until he falls asleep.
Mackenzie Golden mix
My name is MacKenzie Haley Flynn. In January, 2009 I joined my human mom and dad. They found me in Silver Creek, NY and I was just barely 7 weeks old. My dog mom had run out in the street and was hurt real bad. She couldn’t take care of me or my siblings, so we all had to find homes really fast. So I moved to No. Buffalo and I had a great start at puppyhood. Because my mom is a teacher and she had a great principal, I was allowed to go to a Buffalo Public school until I was almost 3 mos. old. Then I made a big mistake… I peed in the hallway in front of a parent who didn’t like dogs. I was expelled from school. But boy did I and that second grade have a lot of fun! We all learned a lot about life and getting along with each other.
I am an only dog, but I have a lot of dog cousins and dog friends. I especially like Tuesday and Thursday when I get to play with all my friends at Dog Days. I also like Saturday and Sunday because those are the days I get to sleep in with mom and dad as well as go for long walks or sit at the front door and watch the world go by.
Because I am a winter dog, I really like the snow, snow baths (making snow angels), snowballs and running in deep snow at Burke’s Green are some of my favorite things to do. I also like swimming a lot, but only if mom and dad go in with me. My favorite places to walk, run and “swim” are the River walk in Tonawanda, Thunder Bay Beach, Fort Niagara State Park and any golf course when it’s closed in the winter. Another special place I like is my backyard. It is really big and I can run laps around the flower garden and hide in the corner behind some bushes. I have two special places that I dug along the fence where I can cool off on hot summer days.
Two of my favorite activities are to play tug when I walk mom and dad before work and I like to “dig” and make circles in the doggie pool at Dog Days and at home. Car rides rate really high on my list of things to do anytime, any day, and to anywhere.
