Joy is the biological mother to Maple. Her favorite thing in the hospital is offering her paw to anyone who takes it. She likes to have her paw held during donations. She readily donates without sedation and is completely acclimated to the routine. Joy will climb up the table and lie down without us asking. This will be her last year donating. She's been donating since April 2021.

Maple is still new to the blood bank program. This is her first year as a blood donor.

Pip is the newest enrollee, but he has not yet donated blood. At 147 lbs, he looks like a serious and formidable seasoned canine, but at heart, he is still just a small puppy wanting to crawl into the laps of anyone who will pay him attention.

This trio of gentle giants are certainly head-turners. It takes a solid 10 minutes for this family to move through the hospital as everyone wants to say hi to them and thank them for their service, and they, in turn, take the time to greet each individual with gentle paws and close-up nose boops.

See the below message from Danielle, the trio's human mom:

Joy is technically Pips aunt and Maple is his cousin.

Maple and Pip share the same grandfather who is Joy’s sire Bruce.

They all love to get out meet friends at our weekly training sessions, coffee trips or rally. Maple is currently leading the way and working on her excellent title, Joy and Pip are starting advanced.

Pip is starting conformation and Joy competes occasionally as a veteran.

Maple loves her weekly swim sessions (see attached). Pip also goes but isn’t as enthusiastic. …

Joy loves food and sun bathing.

Saves:

This family of dogs have helped 17 different dogs with their donations! One dog they helped save was suspected to have eaten rodent poison, which can have an anticoagulant effect (which means that it stops blood from clotting). The packed red blood cell transfusion helped replenish the blood lost to clotting and a plasma transfusion helped replenish the patient’s clotting factors.