Name: Raelin Gavriella
Origin: Gaelic and Italian
Meaning: "Wise protection" and "God's able-bodied one"

Breed: Portuguese Water Dog ("Portie")
Breeder: Grand-Lares Portuguese Water Dogs - Jose Franceschi & Carlos Franceschi, Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico
Color: Black & White
Markings: Irish marked (white muzzle, neck, paws, and tip of tail)
Coat Type: Wavy (as opposed to curly, the other Portie coat type)
Eyes: Brown

Age: Seven Years
Gender: Spayed Female

Breakfast: Tiki Dog and/or Weruva canned dog food, any variety
Dinner: The Honest Kitchen dehydrated dog food, any complete (meat included) variety
Supplements: Wholistic Bee Power (organic, human-grade bee pollen granules), Dasuquin (preventative for joints; courtesy of Nutramax Laboratories), and Wholistic Deep Sea Salmon Oil softgel capsules.
Tooth Care: PetzLife Oral Care Gel & Oral Care Spray (Original Flavor) - they really do work; I'm impressed!
Monthly Heartworm Treatment: Interceptor
Vaccination Schedule: Yearly titers (blood tests) to prevent over-vaccinating, except rabies which is every three years as per the law and leptospirosis which only lasts one year and is needed for our travels

Favorite Toy: She loves them all, but I think her favorites are her several Pluto plushes from Walt Disney World
Favorite Treats: She loves all food, but some favorites are peanut butter, fresh cheese or dehydrated cheese treats for dogs, Moo Tubes (beef trachea), Zuke's Z-Ridge Bones (carrot or cranberry), The Honest Kitchen's Pecks (buffalo and blueberry training-sized treats), and Pizza Hut pan pizza crusts (plus she gets her own Personal Pan Pizza with all the meat toppings on it for her birthday dinner each year!)
Favorite Outdoor Activity: Sniffing in the back yard for animal tracks

Color-Enhancing Shampoo: She stays very white and very black with Chris Christensen's "White On White" and "Black On Black" shampoos and "After Bath" conditioner
Regular Shampoo: In between color-enhancing baths, she stays clean with Chris Christensen's "Day to Day Shampoo" and "Day to Day Conditioner"
Leave-In Conditioner/Grooming Spray: Whenever she is brushed, she is first spritzed with Chris Christensen's "Ice On Ice" - and finished off with it, too

Car Safety Belt: She stays safe in the car by using Champion Canine's car safety harness and seatbelt set
Collar: Raelin has many different collars. She sometimes wears Fox & Hounds' hot pink Coachdog collar. Other times she wears Lady Churchwells' Tropics collar in St. Lucia Lilac. Her butterfly collar is from Muttropolis. She also wears a prong (a.k.a. pinch) collar when working on-leash and a Dogtra remote electronic (a.k.a. shock) collar when working or playing off-leash (these are both humane training tools, despite what some folks try to argue, but one must know the correct way to use them)
Sunglasses: The sun can damage animals' eyes, too, so she owns a pair of Doggles sunglasses (the pink with a rhinestone heart kind), although she hardly ever wears them
Identification Tag: She wears a great type of tag on her collar - it slides onto the collar itself and is engraved very deeply to last forever. It is from Boomerang Tags. She also has a variety of metal hanging tags for travel

First Aid Kit: She packs her Ruff Wear doggy first aid kit when she travels and keeps it close by at home. She also has an instant ear thermometer to keep tabs on her body temperature and has other health instruments, products, and a first aid book
Anti-Vibration Mat: On airplanes she loves to lay on her Gel-Tec FlexGel Anti-Vibration Mat, which really is amazing and it is sad that they don't sell them anymore