SNAPSHOT: Hairy ‘bear’ didn’t mind being groomed at Capital Region BOCES

SNAPSHOT: Hairy ‘bear’ didn’t mind being groomed at Capital Region BOCES

He required a team of students to groom him, but Walter, a one-year-old Newfoundland dog, was ambivalent to all the attention. The large canine was groomed recently by the students in the Capital Region BOCES Pet Tech program at the Career and Technical Education Center. Noah Ortiz, Tristan Salerno, and Tyler Hartz combed, washed and clipped his nails as he sat quietly in the CTE classroom. Teaching Assistant and program graduate Ashlyn Knapp, m…