Dennis,  Roxi and Mokie
    Mokie  is a certified Therapy Dog with over three years of experience and hundreds of  hours of public service including weekly visits to a Special Day classroom,  helping with fourth grade school tours at The Kennedy Gold Mine, weekly summer  shifts at Carson Pass for the El Dorado National Forest Interpretive  Association, and weekly shifts at the Sutter Creek Visitor's Center.   
      Mokie's  primary job is to allow unfamiliar people to make physical contact with him and  for him to enjoy that contact.  Mokie has been trained to be calm,  submissive, polite, and to be content being handled by strangers.  
      Dennis  and Roxi Price are both certified handlers of Mokie.  Dennis is a retired  teacher and Roxi is a toy designer for Folkmanis Puppets. 
         
        Mokie, a mixed breed is 4 1/2 years  old. 
      Here's a photo of the special ed class that Mokie visits  regularly.  One kid at a time reads to him, and they give the class lots  of cool 
        puppets.  
       
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