3 pieces of news:
Fellow has been career changed for cataracts. That’s the same thing as Arturo was career changed for. I feel for the family. De ja vu. Their first dog, my first dog. Both would have made amazing guides. GDB will be placing him.
Janda left yesterday.
Vortex is in phase 3. Health checks passed. I’m [...]
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Something I should do ;D
Here’s Janda practicing outside today.
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I took some cute pictures yesterday. She’s adorable. And I like her. Today we worked some more on “come” and she’ll come from anywhere in the house!! It’s great. She also gets that when she steps on the mat and hears “nice” that she gets food. So now we’re moving on to step 2 [...]
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Well she’s here. Little Miss Janda came yesterday to start her stay with us. She’s an absoulute DOLL and I love her already! She has a great personality. Outgoing and playful, but loves people and learns quickly. The great thing (I don’t know if I mentioned this in my last post or not) is that [...]
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Let me start off by saying it’s been a while since we’ve sent a dog that I really cared about back on recall. I mean, I love all our club’s puppies lots, but when they got ready to board recall dogs……..it was the hardest thing. A BIG HUGE congratulations to the raisers of Fellow, Plumas, [...]
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I can’t believe it all happens tomorrow. It seems like I’ve been waiting/dreading this day FOREVER and it’s tomorrow. *ugh* Hopefully it will come fast since I have to work today, and Vortex’s raisers will pick me up at school to take me to the truck.
Blah. Just 26 hours.
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I had no idea how few “J” litters there are!! I have a huge list of names and so far haven’t seen that the one I want is taken….although she could be a guide, I don’t know. I’ve never made name lists before–I just had the one name I wanted. For Arturo, I wanted “Alkai” [...]
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So when you first get your puppies, how active are you in their socialization? I know some raisers get started right away (on non-dog areas since they haven’t had their shots yet) and other raisers go no-trips until after a few months.
Also, what do you do if you have to go somewhere, have a baby [...]
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In the last 24 hours I have seen 2 service dogs. One was a very cute yellow lab working CCI dog named Beth. She is working for a young boy who goes to my church. I thought of Madison when I saw her
And then today I look out the window as I’m opening [...]
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They’re out of May puppies.
You have no idea how sad I am. I will not be raising any puppies for the next 3 (at least) years due to college.
EDIT: I did tell my leader that if a May puppy becomes available, I’m still all for it. So there’s always that slight possibility. And also, if [...]
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