Debate Dogs

This is Betty and Lila. Betty is on top & we got her last year because her elderly owner couldn’t take care of her anymore. Her only command she knows is “dance” where she’ll get on her hind legs & walk in a circle
Lila is on bottom and is very needy/clingy, she wants to climb on your lap and be as close as possible.

They hang out with Tess Welch, from WKU.

This is Coco, hangs out with Chris Eckert from Kentucky.

This is Max, hangs out with Nik Chaudhry from Emory, he's a 7-year-old mini goldendoodle. His favorite past times are eating salad, opening fortune cookies without eating the fortune or plastic, and falling down the stairs on accident.

This is Rose, 3 year old gal, who hangs out with Austen Yorko, coach at MBA

From Hannah, debater at UMich:
This is Sammi, a 2-year-old mini sheepadoodle who’s 40 pounds of hyperactivity (and most of that is fur). She enjoys rawhide chews, giving human hugs, going on runs, playing lots and lots of fetch with her best friend Poppy (a mini goldendoodle), turkey, and chewing hair for some reason. I love her very much and she can do no wrong.

At the risk of repeating myself about how much I love my fur baby, here’s a video of her doing her “distressed” face + a picture of a bunny (not affiliated with Michigan debate, just cute)

This is scruffy. They hang out with Matt Gomez, former debate and now coach of UNLV.

This is Lexi. She is a 5 year old Airedale terrier. Hobbies include chasing rats out of trash cans, barking at the TV, and pulling socks off of people’s feet. She hangs out with Jacob, a debater at the University of Michigan.

David is a debater at Oak Park River Forest High School:
"My dog's name is Kameron. She's an American Eskimo and she just turned 7. My cat is named Pandora, she's a cat of an unknown variety; she is twenty years old (somehow)."

Dustin Meyers-Levy (DML), is a debate coach at the University of Michigan who has many fluffy friends:

Rosie

Gracie who is half irish wolfhound half poodle and is the most gentle soul i’ve ever met outside of AK

Boomer, well-dressed little man iwho is a Bichon and should be on the Muppets

Gracie who is half irish wolfhound half poodle and is the most gentle soul i’ve ever met outside of AK

Dexter, a doofus labradoodle who was supposed to be (and thinks he is) 50 pounds and is in reality over 100, he is impossible to take pictures of because every time you try is a time you’re not petting him so he starts jumping on you and licking you until you stop

Violet who’s 10 and has one good eye but is the sweetest and most enthusiastic old lady i’ve ever met

Jacinda, is a debater for UK and she has a best buddy named Duke

This is Achilles. Jamie Welch (debater at Wichita State) and Ryan McFarland (debated at Wichita State, director at Blue Valley Southwest) adopted him a year ago last July. He was on the euthanize list at a local humane shelter. Originally was abandoned by his first owners and then adopted by an animal hoarder. He escaped the hoarder and made his way back to the humane society, then they adopted him!