August Team of the Month - TEAM MAVERICK

Dogs Name:
Maverick

Owner/Handlers Name:
Ray & Randie Crump

Dogs Date of Birth or Gotcha Date:
11/13/2007

City:
Las Vegas

Breed:
Chocolate Labrador Retriever

Nickname:
As a puppy he was "Shredder" because he tore every piece of paper he got his paws on into millions of little pieces.  His Dad calls him "Skippy" but I can't tell you why.  I call him "Sweet boy" and is shouldn't be very hard to figure that out.  He is the sweetest most loving dog in the world.
But I think that the name his Dad picked when we first saw him is the best...Maverick...it so fits him.

Accomplishments:
- Big Air Senior Title
- Big Air Personal Best: 19' 7"
- He has not learned EV yet but we are still working on it.
- Speed retrieve best is 8 seconds


Other Dog Sport Titles:
He is also a certified Therapy dog and visits the kids at Sunrise hospital every Friday and plays ball with the patients in rehab at Sunrise every Friday.


Quick Bio:
He is a purebred Chocolate Lab from Millers Labs in Pahrump.

Likes:
Favorite snack...cashews nuts, but he eats anything people eat.  If all else fails he eats his dog food.

Pet Peeves:
The fireplace tools...when he was a baby he knocked them down and they made a lot of noise behind him and sacred him.. He still won't go near them.  If a toy gets too close he will do anything he can to move it away before he picks it up.  If he can't move it far enough away he will leave it there until mom or dad get it.

Favorite Throw Toy:
We use a white bumper thing we call a floatie but he will jump in the water after anything at all, or sometimes nothing and will look for the toy later.

Favorite Food:
ANYTHING people eat...cashew nuts are the snack of choice but he waits every night for mom to finish dinner so he can have whatever is left over.

Favorite Walk:
Every morning we walk around the neighborhood and down to a local park to play ball.  He pees on the same bushes every day but he picks different places to "poop"

Favorite Song on the Dock:
I don't think he actually hears the music.  All he wants is to jump into the water and get the toy.


Best Tricks:
If you hold a cashew nut in front of him and say nothing he will sit, lay down and than sit up and give you his paw over and over until he gets the nut.  After the third time he will sit and look at you with the head tilt and a look that says..."that's all there is...please give me the nut now".  Also if you put the cashew nut on your leg he will sit and stare at it and drool but he won't take it until you say OK.

Arrival Story:
We went to Pahrump to pick him out two weeks before Christmas.  I didn't know that we would not be able to take him home that day.  There were four puppies out of a litter of 8 that had not been taken yet.  So we stood there and looked into the kitchen where they were all on the floor to pick on out.  He was sitting in the middle of the floor looking at his brothers and sisters scampering all over the place and just sort of saying..."no one will want me".  Ray said "We will take him"  When Mrs Miller put him in my hands I of course fell in love at first sight.  He just snuggled up to me and fell asleep.  Than she said we had to come back in two weeks to pick him up.  I almost cried.  I would have stayed there for two weeks if she had let me.  So we put a red collar on him and drove home.  Ray would call there every couple of days to check on him and told Mrs Miller his name was Maverick.

On Dec 23 Mrs Miller called to say we could pick him up the next day so we could have him home for Christmas.  We drove there at 7 in the morning hoping that they didn't sleep late with 8 puppies in the house.  We put our own red collar on him and took him outside.  I held him in my lap all the way home and he just curled up and slept.  It was a great ride!!.  When we got home and I put him down on the floor to explore his home the first thing he did was run under the couch and go to sleep.  That quickly became his favorite spot to sleep until about a month later when he was too big to fit.  That was a sad day when he found out he couldn't fit under the couch anymore.  Now he sleeps on top of the couch, or just about anywhere he wants.  His favorite spot now is to sleep on our bed.