Hamlet the Therapy Dog

11/29/2022

For this is one of the causes I highly support - taking care of injured or high needs animals. This pup is currently undergoing evaluation for a spinal injury and his foster could use the help to support the veterinarian needs. I mean, check out those rubber-go-fasters on his feet! This fella has high fashion goals!

Chester PJ Moon, as we have decided to call him, is a sweet young Great Pyrenees Ger… Lena Elbert needs your support for Chester's Spinal Deformity Treatment

02/14/2022

Happy V-Day to all Pyr and mixed-Pyr fur critters and their humans. Here are my two Pyr-mixes. Willow (on the left) taken 2022 by Donna at The PawStand (Willow is mixed with Anatolian Shepherd) and Hamlet the Therapy Dog taken 11 years ago at PetSmart. He's a golden Pyr. Bonus photo of Hamlet Hamilton Hamilito in his sleepwear when he was a puppy. 💖

01/19/2022

It has been a while since I've posted here and I apologize for that. I am working out some ideas for this page that I think will be really cool. But I am embarrassed to say that I am a bit behind the times on some new technology that will allow me to do what I want here that I am still learning. In the meantime, Willow has turned a year and pretty soon she will start training to become a therapy dog. She was born on Christmas Eve, 2020. Stay tuned... Hamlet lives on in this pup. ❤️

06/24/2021

This was a video I made a while back when I was trying out Lumen5.com as a video maker program. Brings back such memories. I sure miss my boy.

04/29/2021

There may be lots of time that go by in between posting here as I prepare Willow for her eventual pet therapy training. She has started puppy class but due to the overwhelming distractions of 13 puppies in the class it's hard to really do anything while we're there. So we tend to do most of our training at home.

She is doing very well with the basic obedience commands of sit, stay, down and we are working on walking on a leash. She is learning "place" but that is slow going.

I hate to say it but I don't think she's as bright as Hamlet was, but maybe that's just because she's still a baby.

She definitely does have the demeanor to be a therapy dog and even more so, as an emotional support animal. She will be trained as far as I can take her.

The trainer in her class gave me a prong collar to help control her since she gets so distracted by so many of the other puppies, but I really don't care for it. I'm sure that's just me talking and it's probably fine for the dog. Maybe I will get used to using it as she will be a big girl and I will need to find a way to keep her from pulling my arm out of its socket. 😂

I think, overall, Hamlet would approve. I am doing more for her training-wise than I was able to do for him. He started training to be a therapy dog late in his life, though he did have basic training early on, we did not continue until many years later. In-between, he was just my buddy. But since Willow will be as big, if not bigger, than he was and I'm a lot older, she needs to have the training in order for me to control her activities outside and when we are around other people and pets. So far, she is a love to everyone and seems to love all the dogs that she has come upon.

Here she is in her first class. Tonight will be her third.

03/25/2021

Excited to share the latest addition to my shop: Cute pet bandana - customizable with two colors and name https://etsy.me/2QFiFoV

03/25/2021

Visit my little Etsy shop and check out the items I'm creating. All images are by moi. At the moment, I only have three items - a customizable pet bandana and two t-shirts. A percentage will go towards my two favorite local non-profits.

03/19/2021

It's been a few months since I've posted here. It will always be painful to not have Hamlet with me. But life goes on and I feel he has sent me a new puppy that is so similar to him it makes me wonder if he had his paws in the process. It began as a fostering situation for the Great Pyrenees Rescue of Atlanta group. I fostered her and her brother, Ares. I found her to be so similar to Hamlet in her personality and demeanor that I had to adopt her. She has the temperament to be a therapy dog and will begin training in April. Here's a photo of her. She's an Anatolian shepherd/great Pyrenees mix and as of this posting, 11 weeks old. Her foster name was Persephone Greco but I renamed her Willow.

So, I will use this page to present the work that Willow does and her training. She has big paws to fill as Hamlet sure made his presence known with so many people.

Thank you, Hamlet, for sending her to me. I know you're watching over her. ❤🐶🙏

12/04/2020

As I write this I'm crying. Hamlet has been gone for over a month and it still hurts so much. This will be the last post for this page. Unless something comes up and it involves Hamlet I'm going to leave it as this. If it's possible that a dog could be a soul mate to a human he was mine. It will always hurt to think about him but I will always remember our good times, as well. He was such a special dog.

Sleep well my floofy angel. I do hope to see you over the rainbow bridge 🌈 someday when it's my time to go. That would be heaven.

11/15/2020

My name is Millie and I am a golden doodle. I am only 7 weeks old and I want to thank my brother Hamlet for leaving his smells behind to make me comfortable in my new home. I wish I could have met you. But we all feel your presence. ❤️ Thank you for paving the way.


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10/23/2020

On October 21 my beautiful baby boy was diagnosed with liver cancer. I don't know how long he had it but he showed no signs of being sick until that morning. I brought him into the emergency room and they treated him as best they could and did an ultrasound and told me that it was pretty bad. I took him home with me but realized through the night he needed to be at the hospital. I brought him back and they did surgery to remove the masses in his liver and found that his adrenal gland had been bleeding into his stomach. He did well during surgery but at 2:30 in the morning he went into cardiac arrest. By the time I was able to get to the hospital he had already passed. I loved on him as long as they would let me and then I had to let him go. I know he's over the rainbow bridge and healthy and having fun with his doggy friends that are also there. I am so heartbroken. He was such a wonderful dog. He brought joy and happiness to so many people as a therapy dog. He was my emotional support dog and was so wonderful. He loved people and he taught me so much about how to be a better human and how to love. There will never be another dog like him. I love him so much. I will miss him so much. Thank you for following this page and if you would like to leave a message for Hamlet that would be lovely.