May 17, 2012

Things To Remember When You Go To Pickup Your Puppy

So, the day to pickup your puppy has arrived and you’ve forgotten everything you learned.  We’re definitely guilty of forgetting a thing or two on puppy pickup days.  However, I like to keep a short list of Things To Remember When We Go To Pickup Our Puppy. Things To Remember When You Go To Pickup [...]

What Should We Do Before We Bring Home A Puppy?

Dublin-Colby

Shortly after deciding on a name for our newest Guide Dog Puppy In Training (We chose Dublin just in case you haven’t been following us on Facebook or Twitter) we thought What Should We do Before We Bring Home A Puppy? This thought crosses our mind each time we bring home a new puppy.  Whether [...]

What Are Good Dog Names?

The question, What Are Good Dog Names? pops up quite frequently when you raise puppies.  For instance as a Guide Dog puppy raiser we choose a new puppy name every year or so.  When fostering a litter of puppies we often times have to come up with several puppy names in a short period of [...]

Puppy In Training Timeline Part 4

The Puppy In Training Timeline is a series of articles chronicling my life with dogs and puppies.  Basically it’s the long version of my “About Me” page and helps to show the influences in my life that led to where I am today with my dogs, puppies, and my writings on the Puppy In Training [...]

Guide Dog Training And Hosting In The UK

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I’ve often mentioned that RSS subscriptions and Google Alerts are great ways to hear the latest news about any subject you’re interested in, for instance, Guide Dog Training.  Today I received a Google Alert titled What It Takes To Host A Guide Dog and thought that it was an interesting title.  I think it might [...]

Search And Rescue Dog Training Demonstration

I can’t believe I missed the Search And Rescue Dog Training Demonstration and it was held right here in my back yard in Irvine, CA.  Also, to make matters worse, one of our Orange County guide dog career changed puppies, Wyler (now called Wiley) was one of the Search and Rescue Dog demonstrators. Here’s a [...]

Meet Me At The Corner And Canine Companions For Independence

Do any of you have children?  If so, or even if you don’t have kids, have you ever heard of the website “MEET MET AT THE CORNER?” Until recently I had not heard of the website, but lucky for me I received an email regarding a recent featured video about Canine Companions for Independence (CCI).  [...]

Trixie Koontz A CCI Golden Retriever and Author

Once again while sorting through my RSS reader I came across a touching article about a man and his dog mentioned on the Bark-N-Blog.  A story about how this dog transformed lives.  The dog I’m talking about is Trixie Koontz, a Canine Companions for Independence (CCI) service dog who entered early retirement because of elbow [...]

CCI Puppies In Training

I follow a lot of blogs in my RSS reader and too no surprise one of my feeds are simple images and descriptions of adorable puppies.  Every once in a while they (The Daily Puppy) highlights a puppy in training.  In this case we are lucky enough to see Puppies In Training. I’m sure The [...]

Visiting Tucson And Support A K9

I’ve been pretty busy the past couple weeks.  Two weekends ago I was at a wedding in San Francisco and last weekend I met up with my college buddies in Tucson, Arizona to reminisce and have fun at our old hangouts.  We even caught a football game in the middle of rain and thunderstorms.  I [...]