Baker: Therapy dog

You can teach an old dog new tricks.

Baker was the five-year old Welsh Springer Spaniel that we helped rehome from Indianapolis to Asheville, North Carolina. We picked up the little dog in Cincinnati and brought him to Knoxville, Tennessee, where Laurel picked him up.

As Laurel herself commented that day, he was a little unused to the six-foot lead, and that was being charitable.

It looks like Baker is a willing learner, though, and he has passed his Therapy Dog test.

Therapy dog

Take a minute to stop by Laurel Hunt's Bark Wag Love blog.

Laurel is training Baker the Welsh Springer Spaniel to become a therapy dog and give comfort to kids in a local hospital that are in a tough spot at a too-young age.

You remember Baker, don't you?

Baker was the six-year-old Welshie re-homed from Indiana to North Carolina. Aki and I picked Baker up around Cincinnati and delivered him to Laurel in Tennessee.

All in that wagon train agreed that Baker was a sweet boy, but needed some training fundamentals. He didn't really know how to walk on a lead!

And now Baker is a therapy dog apprentice. What a fine turn of events, Laruel and Baker.