Tomorrow is the release day for our July K9 mug. It’s not a secret; it’s Ava! The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office leaked the information about a week ago. Check back tomorrow to find out how to get your K9 Ava Mug.
K9 Ava’s mug is coming!
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Highlights of Barks & Badges
Check out this cool video posted by the Washoe County Sheriff’s Department with some highlights from Saturday’s event. If you went, this will refresh your memories. If you missed it, here’s a chance to see a little of what you missed. Maybe next year?
Huge Thanks to Lithia Reno Subura!
Lithia Reno Subaru presented this fantastic donation of $35,079 during the Barks and Badges event on Saturday, June 26th! This is a wonderful donation through their Subaru Share the Love Event . K9 Partners is thrilled and grateful to be a recipient of this money. Without the support of our community and the businesses in the Reno-Sparks area, we would not be able to provide everything needed for our Washoe County K9s to allow them to do the great job they do for the entire county.
Thank you to Chip Ciciovan and his great team at Lithia Reno Subaru and the national Share the Love program from Subaru for supporting our efforts for our K9s. You help to make so much possible for us!
Photo by Gaby Tafolla for WCSO
8:30 am – Look What’s Just Arrived!
New for Barks and Badges – Kids T-Shirts
In addition to the new edition of 2021 T-shirts for adults, we will have really cute new shirts for the children in all sizes. Take a look at these. Aren’t they the cutest things ever?
You can find these shirts and the adult-sized shirts (pictures not available yet) at the K9 Partners booth at Barkley Ranch this Saturday, June 26.
We will also have the three released K9 mugs for sale. If you haven’t started your collection of our dog Mug Shots, you can do it now.
Remember: All profits from any sales from the booth go to support the training and equipment for our WCSO K9s.
Barks and Badges Happens in One Week !
We are one week away from our annual (except last year) Barks and Badges event. Come out to meet our dogs and get a close up view of our two new K9s, Ava and Odin. Entry to the event is FREE and it’s great for the whole family. We’ll have lots of games for the kids and demonstrations of various scenarios the dogs are asked to handle.
We’ll also have information booths, food trucks, face painting, and other vendors with interesting and unique ideas. A mobile library will also be there along with the Nevada Deportment of Wild Life Bear Dogs.
Check out the list of Vendors to see who will be joining us. We will have a vendor map up toward the end of this week and possibly a schedule.
Bartley Ranch is located off Lakeside Blvd. to the South. Turn left on Bartley Ranch Rd and then right into the entrance to cross the bridge.
Many thanks to our terrific sponsors Lithia Subaru Reno and Consign Furniture for helping to make this event possible.
K9 Zeke Mug Shot Available Now!
Available now!! Our Mug Shot for June!! Introducing K9 Zeke!! Isn’t he handsome?!
Our amazing sponsors and partners over at Consign Furniture Reno-Lake Tahoe now have the mugs for June! Head on over there to get your 3rd mug for a donation of only $10!!
If you haven’t yet got the Mug for April, featuring Jett, or May, featuring Kyago you can grab those as well.
Consign Furniture is located at 6865 Sierra Center Pkwy, Ste 200 Reno, NV 89511. Big thanks go out to them for all their help with our Mug Shots event and all they do for us all year long!
If you’d like to order ahead of time and pick up your mug at Consign later, you can go to our page here: www.k9partners.org and order your mugs for your donation. While you are there, check out and download the fantastic coloring pages done by our resident, talented artist Breanne Craig!! You can see and commission her work over at The Rustic Grove . Thank you for your support!!
Promotion for Deputy Van der Wall and retirement for Boomer
From the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page.
Today Sheriff Balaam retired K9 Boomer after 3 years of service with the WCSO. His retirement comes after his handler, Deputy Samuel Van Der Wall’s recent promotion to Sergeant. Sgt. Van Der Wall and Boomer were assigned to the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Task Force, which operates in critical drug-trafficking regions. Thank you Boomer for your hard work and service! #ProudSheriff#K9#K9Retirement
K9 Partners wish Sgt. Van Der Wall much success in his new position and happy retirement to Boomer.
Barks and Badges coming on June 26
Hi, all, If you have one of our 2021 calendars, you might notice it says Barks and Badges will be on May 22nd. That was a hoped-for date that didn’t pan out. The park couldn’t open for a large crowd on that date, so the event is now scheduled for June 26th. Just want to clear that up in case you’re confused.
We are definitely a go for the 26th, so mark your calendars and plan to attend this FREE admission event at Bartley Ranch.
We will have our vendor list up soon. We have four food trucks to provide food and drink options. Also, several information booths to help your learn more about our county services. Some of our community first responders will be there.
And we’ll have new K9 shirts (including some for kids) and the Mug Shots for three of our dogs for sale at the K9 Partners’ tent. We have some fun games for the kids to play. Best of all, our K9s will be on site and showing everyone just what they do.
Bring your camera, sunscreen, and sunglasses. It will be a blast!
Barks & Badges is Happening!
IT’S A GO!!! Hello, K9 friends! We are ON for our annual Barks and Badges event for June 26th at Bartley Ranch!! Please keep us in mind and put us on your calendars!!
If you’ve been before, you know that we really “put on the dog,” so to speak. We work in conjunction with the WCSO to bring you K9 demos of every kind, plus many other fun and interesting things to look at and interact with, such as Sheriff’s Office equipment and vehicles of every kind. It’s a great day for kids and adults alike! Lots of kids games and fun activities!!
Feel free to share, download and print our poster for display. Thank you so much for your continued support! You make our community a safer place!