May 17, 2012

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 [...]

Puppy In Training TV – Ep 18 – Puppy Turn In Day

Black and White Lab Puppy

Make sure you bring a handkerchief for this episode of Puppy In Training TV because it’s a real tear jerker.  It seems just like yesterday that we picked up a 7 week old puppy from the “D” litter that we named Dublin.  As a guide dog puppy raiser we work on basic dog obedience training, [...]

Puppy In Training TV – Ep 16 – Guide Dog Pups Visit The Fire Station

Puppy With Firefighter

We’ve been raising guide dog puppies for the past 5 years and we had always heard about visiting the fire station, but after raising Stetson then Derby and now Dublin we had never visited fire fighters or a fire station until today! Visiting fire fighters and a fire station is a great outing for our [...]

Puppy Raiser Questionnaire – In For Training

Dublin and Guide Dog School

It’s been over a month since Dublin went in for formal guide dog training and I really haven’t done too much here on the blog, on his facebook page, his YouTube channel, or on his Twitter account.  However, that’s all about to change starting with this short blog post about one of the last reports [...]

Puppy In Training TV – Ep15 – Guide Dogs Of America Open House

GDA Open House

The Guide Dogs of America Open House is held every June in Sylmar, California.  This year Dublin, my guide dog puppy in training and I attended the event. There’s a ton of stuff going on at the GDA open house.  Puppies in training have the opportunity to participate in the puppy trials (we arrived too [...]

Formal Guide Dog Training

Dublin Fade Toy

Dear Colby, Well, the time is here, the day you’ve been anticipating since you picked up Dublin all those months ago.  It is now time for Dublin to come in for his formal guide dog training. We know this is a hard time for you and we would like to try to make it a [...]

Orange County Transportation Authority Service Animal Training

OCTA Service Animal Training

One of our favorite guide dog puppy training events of the year is the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) Service Animal Training.  Dublin and I had the opportunity to attend this wonderful event last year and lucky for us Dublin gets a second chance to enjoy this awesome event. If you are training a service [...]

Puppy In Training TV Ep13 – GDA Puppies And The March Of Dimes

march-of-dimes

Just recently, Dublin, my guide dog puppy in training and I had the opportunity to work our guide dog booth at the March of Dimes – Race for Babies.  It’s a great opportunity for us to not only raise awareness about guide dogs and puppy raising, but also to expose Dublin to new situations and [...]

National Guide Dog Month

Guide Dog Puppy

I know I’m a little late it already being towards the end of September, but this month (September) is National Guide Dog Month.  So what exactly is national guide dog month?  According to wikipedia: “National Guide Dog Month is a celebration of the work of Guide Dogs in the United States as a way to [...]

Puppy In Training TV – Ep11 – Guide Dog Pups At The Movies

Baron-Yuki-Walking

Dublin and I have been planning our Orange County guide dog group outings and not too long ago we took the guide dog pups to the movies at the District in Tustin. The movie theater wasn’t our only destination.  We also had the opportunity to introduce our puppies in training to a grocery store, borders [...]