Guide dog puppy raising

Monday, June 9, 2008

New picture of Navarone

My sister emailed me a picture of Nav when he was about three months old. She found it, I think, on her computer or on her camera chip. It is so cute.

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Hi everyone it has been a while since I have posted on here I just haven't found time to. Wenda went back to Guide dogs May 3rd. We had a nice time before we took her back my mother and I met up with two other puppy raisers and two blind ladies that work at Guide Dogs. It was really fun to get to know some knew people. After Wenda went back I was puppyless until May 14th when I got Powell. He is from another raiser in our group. He is a Male Yellow Lab almost 9 months old. I will be co-raising him with my friends. He is a very good puppy just need to work on some problems like all puppies.

Friday, February 15, 2008

Wenda and our adventures

It has been a while so I decided to post an update on us. Wenda is doing better her rash is gone *yeah* and her soft trachea...the doctor said that it could just be stuff getting stuck or tickling her throat but I am not using the head collar as much any more and she seems fine. I got her recall date... it is May 3-4. I know it is a far way off but I can't wait I am happy and sad. I think she will make it far in the Guide dog program. The other day I took her to a concert, orchestra concert, and she did very well. My uncle plays the trumpet and they record their concerts so when I had my first dog, Nav, they were really hesitant about a puppy coming because it might whine and/or bark but I assured her that he wouldn't do that. So now about 1 year almost 2 I have brought both of my dogs to their concerts and they, my aunt, will ask if I am going to bring my dog. She even told my about a Guide dog in training that she saw and she told me that it wasn't very good because it was jumping all over the raiser. My aunt is more aware of the Guide dogs in training and other service dogs since I have been raising. Wenda and I have been together now for, since September, 5 months:) WOW Time does fly when you're having fun;) These are some pictures of *Princess Wenda* out in my front yard. Our tree got cut down, because it was getting old and some of the branches fell off BIG branches and fell onto our neighbors car, in a big storm we had in January. It is the perfect spot for pictures:) I have a picutre of Wenda where she looks like she is a snotty princess with her nose in the air it is so funny. Lets see if I can find it... The first on is it, it is really cute

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Update

Wenda has had these bumps on her underside for a couple weeks now and she has also been coughing like she has soft trachea (soft throat) so we took her into the vet yesterday. The vet said we will have to keep an eye on her for the soft trachea cause she wasn't too bad, she only coughed once, and she gave us some medicine for the bump things. Well I guess it wasn't too informative but, hopefully the medicine will help with the bumps. We usually have Guide Dog meetings on some Thursday, but we don't have it tonight. I will get some pictures of our group up next week so everyone can see how cute they are!

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Navarone's Birthday

Today is Navarone's 2nd birthday:) so I thought I would put some more pictures of him on here!

Monday, January 14, 2008

Missing my puppy

These are some pictures of my fist puppy Navarone. I have been missing him a lot, probably because he was my first dog, but he is now with a great family and they love him to death. The picture that has three dogs on a big dog bed, well the other two dogs are Ginger, the Rot/mix and Mickey, the Besenji/mix. That picture was taken probably September or October of 2006 so Navarone was only 9 or 10 months old.