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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 Welcome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Welcome. Show all posts

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Welcome Home Brandon! (and HAPPY SECOND BIRTHDAY RUDY!)

*(Written by Brandon's Raiser)*
Brandon was able to come back HOME yesterday afternoon, and boy was he excited to be back!
The vet said we don't have to monitor his water, since he's not over drinking (knew that already...) but he is on a very strong antibiotic, in hopes that it will keep the infection (if that's what's wrong) gone.
So far, so good - When picking him up yesterday, they told us since he's been on the antibiotics he's had NO accidents and that has followed through for now! It's amazing to have a dog that can wait a whole TWO hours, instead of needing to pee every 5min!
I'm hoping & praying that these antibiotics continue to work (he'll be on them for 3 weeks), since we don't have many other options to try, but of course, we'll have to wait and see.
With being in a kennel for the last 9 days, Brandon is doing extremely well. He settled in fine back at home, and even had to run some errands yesterday. My younger sister even took Brandon into Food Lion with her, to pick up a few things... and they actually worked WELL together! (This is quite a surprise to me, since Brandon doesn't always work well with other people... he tends to be a "one person" dog). I'm so happy he's settled back in so well, and I'm looking forward to working him again!
I will keep you guys updated about Brandon, and he hopefully will be back on the blog & posting shortly.

I also wanted to take a minute to wish Rudy a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Today (March 17th - St. Patrick's Day) is Rudy's SECOND birthday :) Wherever he is, I sure hope he's happy and enjoying himself :) Hopefully I receive some news on him in a few weeks.

On another quick note... I know several of my blogger friends have already noticed, yes my email account has been hacked and I'm so sorry about the spam email(s) that were sent out to any of you guys (sadly, all my previous emails/contacts are currently gone - and I'm unable to send out an apology email at the moment... hopefully yahoo! is working on getting them back for me).

Thanks for keeping Brandon in your thoughts & prayers over the last week, things still aren't for sure whether he'll stay better or not... but I'm hoping for the best!
Enjoy the cute pictures below of Brandon,

-Brandon's Raiser


Please know that in the below pictures, our puppies shouldn't be allowed to do this... but when (or if) it happens, you always have to grab a picture before giving corrections!! (otherwise you'd miss a really cute photo opportunity!)
Picture of Brandon sticking his front paws/face out of a LOW window

Picture of Brandon in almost the same position, just looking to his left instead of at the camera

Another cute picture of Brandon!

Sunday, October 30, 2011

A Furry Welcome To:

BRANDON!
Our "Name Game" winners are:

Raiser Erin
Lisa, Ellie and Hosta
Cantrix
Sugar the Golden Retriever
Elijah and Hobart II
A "drawing" will be done THIS week with the above bloggers and the winner of the prize will be announced on the blog.

Now on to the good stuff...
We picked up Brandon at 6pm this evening; though he's a tiny puppy he sure weighs a TON!
Brandon is a very "mellow" puppy, but that doesn't stop him from whining :) He doesn't like to sit still for long and always wants to be on the move.
I don't have many pictures yet, but I am including 2 of him in this post, just so you can see how cute he is!! I will have much better lighting tomorrow and will able to get LOTS of photos/videos, which I will then post on the blog.
I have also been told that Brandon has "runny" stool... seems like every pup I've gotten ends up coming with diarrhea. Hopefully that will be over in a few days.
More updates/pictures later, but fur now - enjoy the furry cute face below :)

Brandon's Raiser


Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Please Welcome...

DUCHESS!
Toby's sister "Duchess" will be staying with us for 3 weeks. (as long as she doesn't come into heat first). She is a female black lab, and will be turning 1 year on March 27.

We just picked her up this morning, and she was quite excited!
Some main things I'll be working on with her are: commands, whining, & jumping.
She's such a cute puppy, and is like half the size of Toby!
She isn't an ill behaved puppy, I just need to get her to understand some things better.
She is a very attentive dog and responds well to most commands. She did the "stand" command immediately when told. I'm impressed and anxious to see how well she works.

I will be giving Duchess a "crash course" in blogger, so she will soon be running the blog for Toby & I.
Enjoy the pictures,


Toby's Raiser
The human that has a dog with a blog


Black/white picture of Duchess's head, her mouth is opened & she's panting

Picture of the back of Duchess's head, you can see her red collar

Picture of Duchess meeting Liberty. It looks like Duchess is biting Liberty, but really she was just panting when the picture was taken!

No she's not barking/growling!

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Welcome... TOBY!!

Meet Toby...















Hey guys!

Toby was picked up around 2.30-3.00pm today. (well we didn't leave 'til 4!).
He would be posting right know but he is to busy "playing" with Liberty...

...cute?


Toby will be doing a post today or tomorrow, but for now enjoy some of the pictures of him!!
(more coming soon).
His birthdate is 3-27-09.


Toby's trainer






Toby sitting


Toby & his siblings!
(Toby is the second from the right)



PUPPY KISSES!!
Toby LOVES his new bear!




Toby & Liberty























Playing in the dirt...












Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Welcome...

Hi guys!!

My trainer just bought a new horse last week and she wanted me to introduce the horse to everybody.
Her name is Bella. She is 15 hands high and is 15 years old. Her breed is an Appaloosa cross, and her color is a blue roan.
Does she love the horse more then me?? I can go to town, but the horse can't, what's the big deal?
Well enjoy the pictures anyways, And I am going to be doing a post soon on my latest guide dog meeting!! (bowling),

Frankie


Pictures of Bella:

Bella laying down



Bella jumping
















(face shot) my trainer and Bella.


My trainer and Bella, (she is saddled up with
a new hot pink saddle pad!!!)