OccuPaws in the News

Desirae Pausma arranges in-training guide dog Journey’s vest and scarf before going into a restaurant. Pausma is a board member for OccuPaws, a non-profit organization that provides guide dogs to the blind.

"When they leave the breeder's house they're about eight weeks old, just like a normal puppy. Then they go to puppy raisers. We have volunteer puppy raisers who raise them from eight weeks to about 18 months. Then they go with the trainer and are finished and then placed," Pausma said.

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Boston Store - Janesville

Banjo, Candy, and Journey at the Boston Store in Janesville. Maddi was also there.

Puppies sure do bring in the donations!

Maddi and Candy sitting pretty, during a break from playing.

Candy got lots of hugs!

Fun Match

On Saturday Maddi went to the Rock County 4-H Fairgrounds to attend a Fun Match fundraiser for the Rock County 4-H Dog Project. The morning was spent watching the obedience run-throughs. It was good practice for Maddi to have to watch the other dogs working and walking right past her and have to ignore them. The afternoon was spent participating in the conformation run-throughs. Kathy took Maddi into the ring for the puppy 4-6 month class. Maddi did quite well considering the fact that we had never practiced this with her before. Of course, since you can have treats in this ring, Maddi was all attention.





Journey and Candy also joined in the fun in the show ring, but I could never seem to get a picture of Candy. Someone was always in the way or she was moving so much it was too blurry.
Maybe next time we can get her to be a little still.

Janesville Boston Store

On Saturday, Maddi went to the Janesville Boston Store to sell coupon booklets for a fundraiser. She was a very good girl. We met up with Marlene, Juan and the two German shepherd puppies, Justice and Journey. This was the shepherds first outing and they did quite well as our selling time was their usual nap time they slept for a lot of it. It didn't stop people from petting them though. They didn't mind at all, they slept through a lot of the attention. We also met at least one new puppy raiser, maybe two.

Poor Maddi was upstaged by the babies for most of the time. Maddi is very good at her pathetic puppy face so she did get some attention. She didn't mind so much after her sister Finley showed up. Unfortunately the batteries in the camera died so I didn't get any pictures with Finley. Note to self, charge batteries before leaving house!

Woof to the Newcomers

Hi folks,

We're more puppies added to the OccuPaws puppy program and are looking for a puppy raising home. Can you help us???





Love and licks from two beautiful GSD's,

Justice and Journey

Poodles, Goldens, Shepherds, oh my !!!!

OccuPaws is growing and taking on other breeds to accommodate our clients better.

Please meet Journey & Justice, our first German Shepards in a long time. They really are GSD's only little, for now :)

What a year this will be .... who gets who when ???