(it's called In For Training-IFT)
Frankie
My trainer entered Liberty in a
My trainer & Liberty with the horse
For those of you who are just checking out this blog WELCOME!
This blog follows the life of a guide dog in training.
I raise guide dogs for the blind out of Southeastern Guide Dogs in Palmetto FL (http://www.guidedogs.org/).
The past dogs I've raised are: Brax, Frankie, Toby & Rudy (click the links under the header picture to read more about each one).
I'm currently raising my 5th guide dog puppy "Brandon"
(male yellow Lab - D.O.B. 9-4-11), who I recived on October 30th 2011.
I will keep Brandon for about 12-16 months, then he'll head
IFT (In For Training) back to the guide dog school for 6-8 months of training (plus evaulations) with "professinal" trainers and hopefully will then graduate with a blind person. *Please note though, that only 1 out of every 12 dogs will get "Carrer Changed" due to medical/training issues* I do currently have a guide dog puppy down at the guide dog school (Rudy) who is in "phase 3" (last phase of training) and will hopefully get placed with a blind person soon.
Please feel free to follow -
"Brandon's Life... As a Guide Dog In Training"
Enjoy!
Brandon's Raiser
Feel free to follow this blog and leave comments on the way!
Questions are welcome, I will try to answer them soon after they are asked - feel free to email me with one, or just leave it in a comment.
6 comments:
I like option #4. Good luck to Frankie IFT!!
Option #4 sounds like the best one to me! I don't want to miss out on reading these lovely posts! Besides, I want to know how Liberty's life is!
Love the pictures, the videos are great!
By all means let Liberty have her shot at the blog!Shamu, Prissy, and family
Ooh we think Liberty should keep up the blog!! Love the name btw!
Hi Brax,
we think you should let Liberty do some postings and you can contribute when you have time. we want to hear how Brax is doing, but Liberty probably has a lot to say and we would love to hear it!
those are such cute videos of you trying to play with Liberty under the couch! hee hee! she won't be able to fit under there much longer.
woofs
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