At last year’s FUN DAY WITH DOGS, Bright Spot Volunteer and Board Member Kevin Russell chats with shoppers while they pet his therapy dogs Niles & Caber who visit hospice patients.
Dog Lovers, come to Barnes & Noble Bookstore (Hadley location) on Saturday, November 5th, to meet over twenty Bright Spot Therapy Dogs and watch them in action doing some amazing things.
You’ll have a chance to meet many different breeds of dogs and mix-breeds, like Buddha, an American Eskimo Dog and Kaezli, a Bernese Mountain Dog. Watch James do Agility and Raven do Tricks, and Obedience, too.
If you’ve been thinking of getting your dog certified as a Therapy Dog, stop at our Bright Spot Therapy Dogs information booth at the front of the store and talk to our knowledgable volunteers who can tell you how to get started.
There you’ll meet Cadence and talk with her handler Megan Marshall about the wonderful visits they make to a local nursing home.
Bright Spot Reading Buddy Dog Lily waits for her first reader at last year’s FUN DAY WITH DOGS
My Lily will be there, too. I’d love to talk with you about our highly successful Reading Buddy Program in elementary and middle schools. We’re always looking for new teams. In fact, there’s still time to sign-up for our last Therapy Dog Training course of the year. Ask someone at our info booth about the class.
Lots more will be happening at our Bright Spot FUN DAY WITH DOGS. Below is a complete schedule of events that will be happening at Barnes & Noble from 11:00-3:00. Oh – Yes… and everyone one loves a contest. Be sure to enter ours. Details in the schedule below…
In addition, if you make a purchase at the store and hand them one of our Bright Spot Vouchers available at our Bright Spot Information Booth, it will count toward the donation Barnes & Noble will make to Bright Spot Therapy Dogs.
Here’s the complete schedule:
Learn about Therapy Dogs: Our Bright Spot information booth will be set up with photos of our Therapy Dog Teams visiting in healthcare and educational settings. Copies of our print publications will be available as handouts, and our knowledgeable volunteers will be on hand to describe the meaningful work our therapy dogs do and explain how dogs get trained and certified as therapy dogs through Bright Spot.
Agility, Obedience, and Tricks: Bright Spot therapy dogs James and Raven will delight shoppers with a variety of fun training activities they can do with their dog. Training is a great way to build the bond between you and your dog. Come watch and talk to their handlers Sally King and Karyn Cordner about the various types of fun training activities you can do with your dog.
Meet the Breeds: Find out what it’s like to live with a Bernese Mountain Dog, an American Eskimo Dog, an English Setter, a Standard Poodle, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, a Golden Retriever, a Jack Russell Terrier, an Italian Greyhound, a Cocker Spaniel, and lots more. A variety of breeds & all-Americans will be scheduled throughout the day. Event attendees will have the chance to meet the breeds in person and talk to the dogs’ owners.
Enter the Selfie Contest: Take your Selfie with one of the many cute Bright Spot dogs you meet at the event and enter it to WIN a $25 VISA CARD.
Read to a Bright Spot Reading Buddy Dog: Dogs are wonderful listeners and enjoy all kinds of books! Young children will have the opportunity to read to one of the Reading Buddy dogs for a 15-minute time slot. Different Reading Buddy dogs will be scheduled throughout the day. Bring a favorite book or choose one from the store to read.
Meet Brinkley, a certified Hope Animal-Assisted Crisis Response Dog: Brinkley and his teammate Ned Polan would love to talk to you about the meaningful work they do helping on the national level in times of crisis, along with the training and certification involved. Brinkley has served at a military kids’ grief camp, the Revere tornado, a weekend encampment for homeless and at-risk veterans, and four weeks with survivors and the families of victims at the Washington Navy Yard shooting. For his work, Brinkley received an Award of Merit from the Secretary of the Navy.