Leepa-Rattner Museum

We spent our Saturday meeting at the Leepa-Rattner Museum on the St. Pete College Campus in Tarpon Springs. This museum was wonderful and we highly recommend it for their dog friendliness in addition to their amazing collection and changing exhibitions.  When we went they had an Andy Warhol exhibition, which quite frankly, I was surprised to see in such a small library.  It was outstanding.  I highly recommend you get a chance to go up and see it.  You may never again get a chance to see so many original Warhol works of art in one place again.  Certainly not in the Tampa Bay area.

We started the meeting with obedience on the shady grass outside and then we went into the museum.

AC Carolyn starts the meeting sharing some Southeastern information.

Brian and black lab Liz, sitting, wait for a command from AC Carolyn.

Tabina, a yellow lab, is sitting pretty as another yellow lab stands off to the left in an attempt to say hello.

All the pups are lined up and in a sit.

All the pups are in a down stay and the puppy raisers are at the end of the leashes waiting to give the come command.

All the pups are in a down stay and the puppy raisers are at the end of the leashes waiting to give the come command.

Another view of the entire group of puppies in a down stay.

Our AC Carolyn hard at work.

AC Carolyn demonstrating the sit-come-heel command string.

Sunny, AC Carolyn's puppy and a yellow lab, on the recall.

Sunny does a good heel and ends up sitting next to AC Carolyn and gets some praise.

After obedience, we busied the dogs and went into the museum where we found a plethora of exposures for them.  From life-size statues to strange sculpture, stairs, vivid colors in paintings, you name it, the museum had it.

The group inside the Leepa-Rattnor Museum.

We had some prospective puppy raisers there.  Tim was trying out Babe, a yellow lab whom Karen and Bob had been babysitting.

Susan and Brian took advantage of the seating to have Liz do a down stay.

There were all sorts of strange things like life size statues at the museum.  A great exposure for the dogs!

Jam was doing his weird asthmatic wheeze, so everyone always knew where he was.  We also call him Goose because of his honking.  The museum was not a quiet place that day.

Here Denny and puppy raiser Sylvia approach a life size cut out of Andy Warhol.

Prospective puppy raiser Tim and his kids try Babe out at the Warhol statue.

Puppy raiser Sue and her goldadore Katy have tried the stairs and are now sitting on the benches.

Tabina and her puppy raiser Blake find a quiet moment in main lobby.

Tabina, finally tuckered out, lies flat out on the floor with no intention of getting up anytime soon.

All in all it was a very good meeting.  Not one accident in the museum!  There were several puppies who ran straight to the grass as soon as we left the museum (Jam included!), but not a one had a pee-saster in the museum.  Good job!