<P> Norm Snively , an alcoholic clown , and his Golden Retriever , Old Blue , are doing a show at a child 's birthday party . After Old Blue causes havoc at the party , Snively angrily takes him in a kennel to a dog pound , until the kennel falls out of his truck . Old Blue is homeless until he meets 12 - year - old Josh Framm . After the death of his father , a pilot who died in a plane crash during a test flight due to fuel shortage , Josh has relocated with his mother Jackie and two - year - old sister Andrea from Virginia to Fernfield , Washington . Due to heartbreak over his father 's death , he is too shy to try out for his middle school 's basketball team and to make any friends . He instead becomes the basketball team 's manager , an awkward offer by Coach Joe Barker which he accepts . He practices basketball by himself in a makeshift court that he sets up in an abandoned allotment , where he meets Old Blue and renames him Buddy . Josh soon discovers that Buddy has the uncanny ability to play basketball , and decides to let Buddy come home with him . </P>
<P> Norm Snively , an alcoholic clown , and his Golden Retriever , Old Blue , are doing a show at a child 's birthday party . After Old Blue causes havoc at the party , Snively angrily takes him in a kennel to a dog pound , until the kennel falls out of his truck . Old Blue is homeless until he meets 12 - year - old Josh Framm . After the death of his father , a pilot who died in a plane crash during a test flight due to fuel shortage , Josh has relocated with his mother Jackie and two - year - old sister Andrea from Virginia to Fernfield , Washington . Due to heartbreak over his father 's death , he is too shy to try out for his middle school 's basketball team and to make any friends . He instead becomes the basketball team 's manager , an awkward offer by Coach Joe Barker which he accepts . He practices basketball by himself in a makeshift court that he sets up in an abandoned allotment , where he meets Old Blue and renames him Buddy . Josh soon discovers that Buddy has the uncanny ability to play basketball , and decides to let Buddy come home with him . </P>
where does the movie air bud take place
where does the movie air bud take place
Fernfield , Washington
Fernfield , Washington