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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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Showing posts with label May 30. Show all posts
Showing posts with label May 30. Show all posts

Thursday, January 28, 2010

10 months!

*(Written by Toby's Raiser)*
Wow, Toby turned 10 months yesterday, really TEN MONTHS!
It's quite hard for me to believe, it seems like just last week I was carrying him in my arms, cuddling his little head in my lap.
He has grown so much since then!

At times he may do something "wrong" but he is my baby, my spoiled dog (well I wish, but alas he's not allowed on my bed, the chair or the drivers seat!).

Toby is really doing well with his training, he enjoys the harness and thinks it's wonderful that he gets to wear it in public!
I would like to include some words about Toby, so here goes -
10 words for 10 months

Toby (Kinda obvious!)
Energetic (For the days he makes 30 laps around the INSIDE of the house...)
Nosily adorable (For his cute nose always being their to cheer us up!)
Mainly the same (Though he's grown large & more obedient he really is the same dog)
Obedient (He really trys to please me with his obedience!)
Neatly Nice (He gets more compliments than I do when we are in town!)
aTtentive (At times he may "ignore" me, but for the most part he is an attentive dog)
Handsome (Many compliments from the public for this one)
Silly (Every dog has their "thing", Toby's includes being "silly")

Now to prove you just read the above "10 words for 10 months" you should be thinking something along the lines of "Where is the tenth word for the tenth month?".
Am I right?
If not then you did just go back and count the words, right!?

You wanna know why?

I tried to figure out what ten words to list for this post, when Toby turned 8 months I used the letters in "Guide Dog", which equaled 8 words.
I didn't want to do just random words, so I thought about using "Ten Months", then noticed that it was only 9 letters.
I decided that 9 letters will have to do.
So the tenth word is "invisible" (you may have figured it out by now!), while in public if Toby is under a table, in a rest room, or in a store many people never noticed Toby. 'Til he walked right in front of them.
I had 1 person that was sitting behind us in a class room, and not once for the whole hour did they realize a dog was under the table!
At our house "invisible" is something we NEVER see!

I hope you enjoyed the "ten words", I enjoy figuring them out!
Toby had his 10 month pictures taken today (so really they would be 10 month & ONE day pictures!).

All the below pictures (besides Toby & the car) were taken with my awesomely cool gorillapod, it is quite helpful when I can't find a person to go with me and take pictures!
Please enjoy all the pictures!

And I would like to wish Toby and all of his siblings (Rocky, Duchess, Cassidy & Spike) a HAPPY TEN MONTHS!!


Toby's Raiser
"The Human that has a dog with a blog"



For the following pictures Toby is in harness, and the background is the sky & trees, both of us are sitting in the grass)




(Close up black/white picture of Toby & I sitting, I am looking at the camera while Toby is "gazing" off)







(Black/white picture of Toby & I, Toby's in a sit, and I am crouching beside him, both of us are gazing off to the right)






(Black/white picture of Toby "kissing" my chin, he is in a stand, while I am crouching in front of him, I am peaking at the camera, and he is looking at me)











(Black/white picture of Toby & I, he is in a stand looking at me, while I am crouching down looking straight at him)







(Black/white picture of Toby & I; Toby's in a stand, I am crouching down beside him and we are both "smiling" at the camera)









(COLOR! Picture of Toby & I, Toby is in a stand beside me, I am kneeling down, we are both looking at the camera)




These last 2 pictures are of Toby with the NEW car.

Yes the NEW CAR, we just got a lime green Honda Element today!





(Close up of Toby's front legs & face, he is beside the front right tire of the green element, he is gazing to the right)








(Toby in a stand in the front of the green element, he is staring at the camera)

Friday, May 15, 2009

Puppy shower, & puppy news!

Hey guys this is Liberty's owner/trainer here.
I went to a "puppy shower" yesterday night to welcome our new puppies to the group (though they aren't here yet :) . We played some games, and learned some nice tips about house breaking, crate training, & some refreshers on guide dog obedience.

I also came home with a puppy shower gift bag, it had a pink squeeking kong, a small bag of puppy treats, and a pink tennis ball (won't be used for guide dog puppy).

As for the news on the new puppy,
Friday May 29th is pick up at the school, since I can not drive down to FL to pick up the puppy our AC will be picking up the 5 puppies that will be joining our group!! Pick up for the puppies is May 30th 2-4pm, I will try to do a post that night on him but we will see if it will get posted!!
I still don't know the name, though someone in our group is going down next week and will find out if they have been named yet. I am told we might not find out till pick up time!

I can't wait 'til the puppy comes!


Brax's, Frankie's, & Liberty's trainer

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