Karver

22/10/2024

Donut you worrry!! I think I am fitting in at my new job at the pawlice station just fine! 🍩🚔

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01/06/2024

Ma first conference and it was SOLD OUT! ✨ What an remBARKable one to be at! Iz got to meet many people dat were from da Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre, Royal Canadian Mounted Police , ALERT - Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams, Alberta Health Services, Red Deer Polytechnic and so much more! Da conference gave us da opportunity to run into Paul Brandt and learn more about Not In My City What a pawsome human, we will be purchasing one of dem yellow roses to wear on ma vest to do ma part in helping disrupt and bringing awareness to human trafficking and exploitation! It didn’t stop der, I listened to Dr. Jody Carrington , Tyler Pelke and so many more amazing speakers and da best part, I gotz to bring lotz of wuv to da building and mahm says I absolutely crushed it for my first time! 👏🏻 I ended my conference day with a tour of the Sheldon Kennedy Centre of Excellence and WOOF, WOOF, WOOF!! Let ma mahm tell youz, Mark Jones and his team, let the dogs out! 🐾 Dey thought of absolutely everything and dis place is somewhere everyone will feel save and supported!! We cant wait to work wiff dem more and give our brave people dat we walk aside a safe place to go, we can’t wait to be back next year ! THANK YOOOUU!!!

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01/05/2024

Thank you Beacon Hill Elementary School in Sylvan Lake for having me and my mom Lacey as your special guest and giving us the opportunity to present to the Grade 5 class! I paw-mised ma favourite grade 5 student that we would come and speak about service dogs and show all her classmates da tasks I have been working reeeeally hard on, like going and saying hi, leaving food distractions, staying on my mat while mom is out of sight and pushing buttons! Dat one the kids wuved da most, der giggles were so encouraging! 🩵

You Grade 5 students are amazing and we thank you for all da love and awesome questions during our visit! Ma favourite was getting asked if I could drive a car! … mom wishes! We hope to come visit again da next time when we in da area! 🐾



📍Town of Sylvan Lake

21/03/2024

Thank you for being so welcoming Medicine Hat Public Library!! 📚

It’s always a good day when a doggo visits 🐶🐶

Karver waits patiently for his next instruction from handler Lacey Abt in the library on Wednesday. The pair were doing some service dog training with Nathalie Gillespie, co-owner of Summit Service Dogs.

10/03/2024

Doggy Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo 🦈

I is not da biggest fan of bath time but tonight, mom took me to The Washbarn in Consort so I smell good for training on Monday and I was a champ! 🏆 I DID IT!! 👏🏻 I REALLY DID IT! ….
Da blow dryer still gives me da scaries but I will get braver and braver the more we visit!

I even gotz to meet three nice gentlemen while dey trouble-shooted da system so I could have a nice bath and while we waited, I gotz so much love! They were so awesome that they fixed it and off we went for our first bath! THANK YOU GUYS! We appreciate everything you do! 😃

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ https://thewashbarn.ca

WE WILL BE BACK FOR MANY MORE WASHES! If you haven’t, you must stop and treat your fur-babies to a wash! The system is so easy and you leave smelling soooo freesssssh ✨ 🐾 Such a great place to be added to our small community!

Thanks to the WASHBARN, I am now ready for my service dog training at da Fire Station on Monday with Medicine Hat Firefighters! 👨🏻‍🚒

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10/01/2024

🐾 K A R V E R IS O N E 🐾

Raise a paw, it’s time to celebrate dis good bois first birfday! 🥳 Life can be ruff, but not dis time! We celebrated early with our lovely talented photographer Kelly Crisp from KC Creations Photography and she made all our Doggy Cake Smash dreams come true! ❤️ You might be wondering but yes .. we also did indeed send dis rem-barkable doggy cake dat our amazing neighbour Sherry Kroeger from Oh babe, babycakes made to da “lab” for testing! 😉 Not only was it drool worthy, it was so good we get to share it with some of our furry furiends today to celebrate! 🦴 Anotha’ big thank you to one of our sweetest furiends Billie Jo Rossing for creating da paw-fect milestone board for our photoshoot! It was pawsome! 🤩

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Karver - Facility Dog in Training 🐕‍🦺

School: Summit Service Dogs

Born: January 10th, 2023 from Cowboy Up Kennel

Nicknames: Karve, Karverdarv, Karvey, Stinky Boy & Shane Ference calls me We**ie

Personality: Outgoing, loving & silly!

Weight: 76lbs

I wuv: Mom, Icecubes, soft blankies, bringing mom socks,shoes and my leash, sniffy walks + playing in the snow, helping dad put on his jeans (yes.. this is for real 😂), training wiff my other Service Dog furiends, visiting da cows to give dem kisses and growing up and playing wiff ma doggy sisters!

Dislikes: Baths da Blow Dryer & Vaccum
Favourite Foods: Cucumbers, Carrots, Strawberries, TLC Pet Food kibble, yummy lick mats mom makes and of course pup cups from Starbucks!

Favourite toys: Benebones, Kongs, Water jugs and pails and my green dinosaur 🦖

I can: Spread pawsitivity in my community! Working wiff mom at Neutral Hills Learning & Community Connection Centre and attending community programming with Coronation/Consort Victim Services - my favourite things to do at work is all the morning naps under moms desk, meeting all da new people dat walk in da door, hanging out wiff the kids at Teen Empowerment,Altario Empowerent and Veteran Afterschool Program, visiting the seniors in da lodge and extended care and attending Lunch with an Officer & Mini Mountie of the Month! 🐾

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08/01/2024

My first Country Christmas! 🥳

I gotz to visit Santa, be in the Annual Consort & District Chamber of Commerce Light Parade and meet a new furiend! No scaries for me during the fireworks! I wuved watchin dem! 🎇 I ended ma busy day wiff a 3C's Minor Hockey Association hockey game! I even had a very nice lady from Irvine recognize my Summit Service Dogs vest!

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08/01/2024

Visiting da Consort Hospital & Care Centre Long Term Care residents before Christmas to meet new furiends and hand out da gifts dat da Neutral Hills Learning & Community Connection Centre Teen Empowerment Program made for the seniors! I wuv bringing pawsitivity to my community one paw at a time, I is a very special boy! 🐾

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06/01/2024

I wuv training days at da Medicine Hat Mall with my furiends & trainer Nathalie from Summit Service Dogs ❤️

I was so good at practicing my “stay” and ignoring all da distractions dat day and I was such a good boi waiting in line at da Dollarstore that ma mahm spoiled me with with a new Benebone from Pet Valu!

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06/01/2024

Did you see me on Howl•ween!?
Karver Shark do do do do do 🦈

Ma first Halloween and I got to dress up and go trick or treating and say hi to many new furiends! It was amazing! 🎃

I even gots to give ma furiends some TLC Pet Food doggy bones for der pups! 🦴

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06/01/2024

Iz get to go to work and visit da kids at da Altario School some Monday’s for their Empowerment Program! Dey get to bake and cook and play in da gym lots! I wuv seeing all the kids and I wuv dis quote on da wall! Dids you know dey have lots of farm furiends right at der school like I do at home! It’s pawsome! 🐾 Check out der page Altario Agriculture Academy

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09/12/2023

Frens, I am very much sowwy! It’s been a very long time since my mahm has posted! I still here doe! I has been workin weal hard at being a good boi! - I tink I am even on Santa’s good boi list! 🎅🏼

Dis photo is me at ma very fwirst volleyball game at da Consort Elem-JrSr! I went and watched ma furiend Nelly play! 🏐 & even wiff da loud noises and da ball flyin around, I stayed cool as a cucumber! … kibble points for meee! Woof Wooo! 👏🏻

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20/10/2023

When mahm goes learning at da Rural Mental Health Project Provincial Exchange Conference, dis year- I stayed wiff my favourite peoplez! Auntie Amanda, Uncle Russ and da girls in Town of Sylvan Lake! I gotz to go visit da Sweet Home on the Lake wiff da girls while Auntie shopped and I even gotz to go to da Town of Innisfail to watch my Ashy run super duper fast at da races! Her hot dog looked so nummy but az da good boy I amz- I just chilled and supervised! 🌭 I wuv all da cuddles I getz at der house and miss dem all de time! 💛

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04/10/2023

My fwirst big road twip! 🚙 Mahms been slacking on dis post but dis twip was soo loooonng but so much fun! Many times I gotz told I was a champ and such a good boi! 7 hours in da car wiff Auntie Karlee, Gwampa and Gwamma and as yous can see, I caught up on lotz of sweep! 💤 We went out to da City of Kimberley and City of Cranbrook! I gots to smell dat fresh mountain air, meet my Uncle Chris and Aunt Karrie and all my cousins and fur cousins! Dey gave me lots of wuv and I miss dem already! I even got to check out some stores at the platzel! Till next time BC 🐾💛

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29/09/2023

New furiends? I gotz lotz! I had da best time at da Long Term Care in da Town of Oyen today! I created lotz of smilez and gave so many wet nose kisses! Dey wuved me! I can’tz wait to go back and visit again! We stopped at Lijdsman Insurance Inc to renew da registrations and I kept mahms feet warm while dey ate lunch! It was a pawsome day!! 🐾

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28/09/2023

Didz you see me at da Neutral Hills Learning & Community Connection Centre table at da Consort Market on Tuesday? I gots to see a bunch of paw-some people andz got to smell da nummy ham supper dat da East Central Housing Society cooked! Tank youz to everyone who stopped by the table to chat aboutz all the fun things we have coming up! Be sure to come by again on October 10th for da last market!

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26/09/2023

Anotha twip to see all my Summit Service Dogs furiends! Iz not the best co pilot when mahm wantz to chat but I dos a gweat job at listenin! Yesterday, we hadz a PAWTY! A tug toy making pawty and itz waz so much fun! I wuv chillin wiff all ma other furiends! Mahm even said I did a gweat job at settlin!

Ps. Tank you to da furiendly Starbucks worker at da City of Medicine Hat Starbucks for da pup cup! 🐾

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