Life as a guide

Lawrence has it easy

My Guide Dog Story

For the GDB scholarship (which I’m applying for) we have to write our “guide dog story” including our goals, accomplishments, and future goals. It was limited to 4 pages (which was kinda hard) and I thought I’d share mine with you all. My mom will be proof-reading it for grammar before I send it, but [...]

I can’t believe..

that Pomona is being recalled this weekend!! Wow! It’s been so so so long since I saw her, and I was so sure she would NEVER make it to recall. She’s one lucky girl to have such patient raisers.

Vortex comes for the weekend tomorrow! Happy happy Anna Our club’s outing is to a [...]

The routine continues

Well Vortex came to school again, since it’s a Monday. He was great as always. I really love that guy. He is still really excited around people, but the food reward is working amazingly well.
Lawrence’s partner is so fantastic. He doesn’t care how long I had Lawrence, he just appreciates what I DID do. He [...]

100th Post!!

Wow I can’t believe I’ve reached 100 posts….weeiirrdd…
Well with his raiser’s permission, I’d like to introduce you to Lawrence’s brother, Lorenzo.

Like most of the “L” litter, Lorenzo made it all the way to phase 10. However, he was career changed and is now living with his raisers’ niece.

One thing I’ve noticed about this litter is [...]

It’s over

Well, graduation is officially over. Lawrence and his partner are back home, and I’m sure they’re having a good ‘ol time.
I’m creating a password protected page for Lawrence’s graduation and pictures since they involve people pictures that I don’t want to post publicly. So if you’d like to see the page, comment, and have your e-mail [...]

Pre-Graduation jitters

Well…the graduation is tomorrow. I know I’m going to get 5 thousand comments saying “everything will be fine” but here’s what I’m thinking/worrying about…

I was supposed to call Lawrence’s partner last night at about 5. Things happened and I didn’t get a chance to call until later, and he was busy. I was [...]

Pictures

As promised (before I got my Lawrence news…) here are my pictures of Mr. Vortex

Oh wait! Who’s the gorgeous yellow lab in the harness? Could it be Lawrence????
Yes, my dear friends, Lawrence’s partner has been e-mailing me, and I’m so excited for the match. He’s the man’s 8th guide, and they seem to [...]

…news….

well it sure came a roundabout way, but I have some news on my little guy (Lawrence). As you all know, the October class was decided last week (I think) and I was sad that once again Lawrence decided to wait this graduation out. I decided that after the graduation I’d call GDB and ask [...]

Phase Reports

I decided, I hate phase reports. Not as a general rule, but just right now. I bet Anna and Coreena have been feeling the same way. The phase 10 dogs can’t go anywhere else, so now we wait for a phone call…. ugh. So much for the eager anticipation of Thursdays.
I sit. And I wait. And [...]