Just a couple days ago I received a magazine called Orange County Westways with a title Who Let the Dogs Out? on the cover with a picture of (I believe) Huntington Dog Beach. The main dog on the cover looks like my parents little yellow terrier and off in the background about to tackle [...]
Just the other day I received a short blog article from Google Alerts about a person’s experience or actually eye witness of a fully trained guide dog in action.
Lucky for me I see guide dogs in action almost on a daily basis. There’s a lady who walks by our office with her guide dog [...]
Aren’t you amazed when you see a Guide Dog in public! They have to be some of the most well-behaved dogs I’ve ever seen. A guide dog has to ignore all the distractions going on around him and concentrate on his job of leading his handler safely to his destination. Have you [...]
This Sunday, July 27th we will be attending the Guide Dogs Of America Graduation at their campus in Sylmar, CA. Lucky for us our good friend Dustin is graduating. We are so proud of Dustin and his parents Anne and Jim. We can’t wait to see him in harness with his [...]
One of the great things about being a part of Guide Dogs of America is having access to a vast amount of puppy/dog knowledge. There are so many knowledgeable people in our Orange County Guide Dogs of America group that anytime I have a puppy/dog question I can just talk to people at our [...]
A lot has happened the last few days/weeks in my puppy training life. Exactly two weeks ago I received a call from our Orange County GDA group leader asking me if I’d like to puppy raise another Guide Dog. I was a little hesitant, but excited at the same time. If you’ve [...]
Everyone who reads my blog already knows that my puppy in training, Stetson went in for formal guide dog training in Sylmar, CA about a month and a half ago. During my time with Stetson the number one question everyone asked me was “Isn’t it difficult to give your dog back when it’s time [...]
I’m so sad to say that the Pet Expo I saw scheduled was in 2005 not 2008. Unfortunately if you receive an RSS feed from me then the feed was incorrect. As far as I can tell there’s no pet expo scheduled in Pomona this year. Sorry for the incorrect information.
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Sorry, it’s been a few days since I posted here. As many of you know I dropped Stetson off at Guide Dogs of America last Saturday. Leaving him behind in the kennel was very tough, but I feel Stetson is in good hands with the trainers and kennel technicians.
When we arrived at the [...]
Recently both my dogs caught a Canine Respiratory Infection. Stetson caught the cold first and about 5 days later Linus was showing similar symptoms. It seemed to me like it was just a common cold the same one I’d get as a kid playing with all my friends on the playground. When [...]
