May 21, 2012

A Thank You Message From A Guide Dog Handler

Guide Dog Bau On The Train

We received a wonderful thank you message from a guide dog handler we met on Facebook and wanted to share her appreciation with all our readers especially our puppy raiser readers. As many of you already know I’m a guide dog puppy raiser for Guide Dogs of America.  If you’ve been following our blog then [...]

Puppy In Training TV – Ep20 – Guide Dog Graduation

Reserved Puppy Raiser of DUBLIN

FInally!!! I’m finished with Dublin’s Guide Dog Graduation Video…just scroll down… Better late then never!  When it comes to video editing and doing voice over I’m definitely the tortoise and not the hare.  As everyone already know 1 week ago Dublin graduated with Liz from Guide Dog College and the celebration was glorious!  I was [...]

Dublin Graduated Guide Dog College! YAY!!!

Dublin - Guide Dog!

It was a busy weekend with the OC Pet Expo and Dublin’s graduation, but it was all worth it! It’s been a whirlwind since about 2 weeks ago when I first found out that Dublin was going to graduate.  Excellent news I must say!  I started writing about it here on the blog, posting new [...]

13 Tips To Prepare You For Your Pups Guide Dog Graduation

Dublin In Harness

It’s been just over a week since I heard that Dublin was graduating from Guide Dog College.  The first thing I did was rush home and put together a new episode of Puppy In Training TV announcing his graduation.  I told everyone on Facebook and Twitter.  I wrote a second blog post officially inviting everyone [...]

Why I Decided To Be A Guide Dog Puppy Raiser

Dublin and Colby at GDA

The third Tuesday of every month we have our Orange County Guide Dogs of America monthly meeting to work on basic obedience with our puppies, discuss upcoming events, and usually we have a topic dedicated for each month.  Last month we had a round table discussion where each puppy raiser talked about themselves for a [...]

A Little Bit of Insight Into Guide Dog Training

Dublin A Puppy In Training

Do you guys follow the Guide Dogs of America Facebook fanpage?  If not, then I suggest you head on over there and “Like” their page. Today I came across this wonderful link from explore.org.  I don’t think it’s been posted to the GDA facebook fanpage yet, but I’m pretty sure it will be soon. It’s [...]

Dublin’s Guide Dog Training Update

Yellow Labrador Retriever Pupppy

It’s been over 4 months since I dropped off Dublin at guide dog college.  I still think about him and how he’s doing just about every day.  I like posting some of his old puppy pictures to our Facebook page.  Every time I visit the Guide Dogs of America (GDA) campus I ask how he’s [...]

Dog Training Schools – A List Of Guide Dog Schools

Dog Training Schools

About 6 years ago I decided to volunteer my time with different animal groups and started off by becoming a volunteer foster home for puppies and dogs.  Shortly after fostering several litters of puppies I started looking around at different dog training schools, specifically dog training schools that provided guide dogs and service dogs to [...]

How To Sponsor A Guide Dog Puppy In Training

Golden Retriever Puppy Playing With Dog Toy

People are often times wondering how they can help guide dogs and how to sponsor a guide dog puppy in training like my current puppy, Apache. I’ve been working furiously these past couple weeks gathering photos, writing short paragraphs, and putting together a little photo album about Apache, my guide dog puppy in training.  I’ve [...]

Working Dog Postage Stamps Now Available!

Dog Postage Stamps

It’s been a few years since I saw any kind of dogs on stamps.  I don’t really know too much about the history of postage stamps or how they go about choosing who, what, where ends up on a stamp, but I do know that the United States Postal Service has released a set of [...]