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I am a male yellow Lab. My birth date is September 4th 2011. I am in training to be a guide dog for the blind. (guide dog school -Southeastern Guide Dogs) I'm my raiser's fifth guide dog puppy. She will keep me for (about) 1 year, then I will head off to harness training! Please feel free to follow my blog and keep up with: Brandon's Life... As a guide dog in training

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Thursday, August 23, 2012

4-H Congress... Doggy style!

I was able to attend 4-H congress with my raiser this past month and boy was it an exciting adventure!
It's a week packed full of workshops, activities, interesting speakers, dances, presentations, honor club inductions, large crowds, and fun times with lots of 4-H friends!
My raiser was happy for me to get the experience of staying in a dorm for a week, and for being calm around huge loud crowds of people, ignoring food in the campus cafeteria, not being bothered by the extremely loud music at the dances, putting up with wearing a honor club sash all week, being quiet during long workshops, presentations & for speakers that we had - but most of all... having FUN!
My raiser was inducted into 4-H Honor Club the first night, and since she always has a dog on her side, they decided to let me wear a sash too!! 
On the second day my raiser had her presentation competition, she was very happy to win gold with her Farm Camp presentation!   
They even had a professional photographer take the honor club inductee photos and the presentation winners... and I was able to star in both pictures with my raiser :)

I had a wonderful time at 4-H congress and learned many new & exciting things... it was a great experience and I'm so glad I was able to attend with my raiser!
-Brandon 


Picture of my friend, Brandon, & I all wearing our purple "Honor Club" sashes (Brandon was  given one also!)

Picture of Brandon, I and the gold medal I just won for my 4-H presentation

Dorm room!
Picture of Brandon in a down-stay inside the dorm room

Picture of Brandon in a down-stay (sleeping) under a table


Random picture of my friend, Brandon & I (all wearing the honor club sashes) 

Nap time on the way home! 
Brandon resting his head on my lap on the way home (all four paws are still on the ground!)

7 comments:

Two French Bulldogs said...

Sounds like you did a great job with all those distractions
Benny & Lily

Dexter said...

What is this "ignoring food" of which you speak?
You have a very difficult job.

Slobbers,
Mango

Kitty+Coco said...

Wow you really got in on the activities Brandon! What an honor your raiser got and of course you deserved a sash too. Fun times...but you totally deserve a major treat after all of that restraint :)

Kitty+Coco

FANCY the Red Standard Poodle said...

Hi Y'all!

Just trying to get around and visit all my friends I've been missing. Hope y'all are havin' a great day!

Oh Brandon! You are such a GOOD boy! Congratulations to your raiser on her Honor Sash and Gold Medal!

Y'all come by now,
Hawk aka BrownDog

Becky Andrews said...

Congratulations and how cool Brandon - another great experience to stay in a dorm!

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