Do you see what I see?

The guide dog school's blog has done a few posts recently with pictures of some of their dogs in the training kennel.

I'm never sure if Rudy is one of those dogs in the pictures they post - but the few photos below sure look like him!

Hopefully I'll be receiving his 4th report card in a few weeks.

I did get a "slight" update on Rudy, Tuesday evening. I got to talk briefly with one of SEGDI's trainers (that traveled up here to attend one of our puppy meetings) and, though she's not worked with Rudy on training - she did tell me Rudy was on her "feeding schedule" and he's doing good.

I'll be posting a PUPPY update shortly...

Rudy's Raiser

A Furry New Blogging Pal!

Hey furry friends!

A lady in our guide dog group - that puppy sat me last weekend (while my raiser and her family were at the Dairy Goat Show) has just started her very own blog.

She will be receiving a little puppy in just a couple days (the beginning of November) from the guide dog school.

That's right, she is starting to raise... us awesome guide dogs!

I would love for all of my awesome furry followers, to please stop by her blog for a quick visit! (feel free to follow her while your there!)

I love seeing more guide dog bloggers out there - even better for "my" guide dog school, so the more friends she has - the better!
She will be receiving a furry cute female puppy, named Waffles; I can't wait to meet her :)

So make sure to check out her blog, furry please!

My raiser hopes to take me outside for some picture taking tomorrow, so I may be posting some pictures she took - and maybe a couple movies of me doing obedience/commands, so stay furry tune!

Rudy

The dog with a blog

Furry Kisses

Hey furry friends!
I'm doing a quick post to let you know that my Raiser, some of her family & I are headed out... bags are packed and we are going... somewhere... I'll find out where, when we get there!
Pictures and a fun update will be coming soon when I return.


Please don't miss me too much... but I know I'll miss all of you guys!
Enjoy the cute pictures taken Tuesday, and giveaway (hopefully) coming next week!

Furry fun kisses!


Rudy
The dog with a blog

(almost) Wordless Wednesday

I'm in need of a change... so??
My raiser let me pick a different background for my blog!!
(the last one has been on since Toby had the blog).
So, what do my furry friends think??

Rudy
The dog with a blog

Current/new:

Before:

Please Welcome:

RUDY!!

We picked up Rudy at 9pm, he is the sweetest and calmest pup (for now) that I know!

We found out that he's not just black... his real color is: A Black AND tan puppy.... which means?

He has "a little bit" of tan markings on his legs!
He did wonderfully in the crate last night - a little bit of crying, but soon realized it doesn't get him anywhere.

I would have posted last night - but 11pm was a little too late for me :)

I will give a real update on Rudy (with lots of pictures) soon - but for now enjoy the couple taken last night/this morning!

P.S. Rudy feels very sad that NOT A SINGLE blogger guesses his name :( But you guys did have some great guesses!

Rudy's Raiser

The human with a dog that has a blog

(Movie of Rudy playing with his puppy toys in the large dog crate)

Paw Prints on her heart...

My Raiser likes to remember the dogs she raises. Besides the hundreds of pictures she takes, there is 1 other thing she uses to really remember us by.

When she had her first dog Brax she was given a "stepping stone kit" for Christmas.

She decided to use it with Brax a couple weeks before he left. She took a paw print from him and his name tag - she put those items in the stepping stone for a nice memory.

The following year before Frankie returned to school my Raiser remembered to buy a stepping stone kit. After she took Frankie's paw print she decided to start a tradition - every guide dog she raises will have a stepping stone with their paw print in it.

Well my time has "come" for me to return, I leave THIS Tuesday, so the beginning of April she bought a stepping stone kit for me - and it soon came time to use it.

Beside my paw print she also put my almost new name tag (we got it back in February) in it and even used mini rocks to spell out my name.

I'm happy my Raiser will have this to remember me by, I know she will really miss me and cry lots, so I hope this helps :)

See pictures below of the cool stepping stone!

I can't believe I will only be doing 1-2 more posts before I'm turned in, I will treasure each word I type knowing I won't be on this blog anymore :(

With the wait being 2-3 months before my Raiser receives another puppy this blog won't be updated nearly as often as I've been posting. My Raiser would love to post each day, but she won't have many things to post about.

Please note that she is NOT abandoning this blog, and she does plan on updating it frequently.

This blog will also be used for updates about ME.

So when she receives ANY information on how I'm doing, what career I may have chosen or just a random update it WILL be posted!

I hope you guys will continue to follow this blog whether or not it's updated often, because one day... their will be another puppy!

My Raiser is planning on doing the giveaway drawing next week (April 18th - Sunday), so if you haven't already entered please make sure to!

I won't be here to draw a name, so early congrats to the winner!

I plan on doing a picture post tomorrow, and hopefully 1 more Tuesday (before I leave for FL, or maybe once we reach FL).

My Raiser has many pictures of me (and will have many more) so she plans on doing some pictures posts for me.

Happy Sunday, this is my LAST EVER Sunday with my Raiser... :(

Enjoy the pictures below!

Toby

The dog with a blog

Pawesome...

When my handler was teaching me how to work a blog, she had me read through some posts Toby had done over the last month(s).
I was starting to think, "Why does Toby get all the comments, and I'm left with just a couple?"
Until I came upon this word:
PAWESOME - No wonder he gets all the readers!
What the pup is pawesome?

My handler saw my "face", so she looked at the word, laughed, then explained what it meant.

Evidently "Pawesome" means "awesome" - but you add a "p" at the beginning. So it's "dogarized".

Since I'm new at all this stuff, I had no idea what it meant, now I'm kind a embarrassed I didn't know what the word was...

Oh well, I'll get over it.

Have a PAWESOME Monday, and enjoy the PAWESOME pictures my PAWESOME handler took with her PAWESOME camera!

So does that mean I'm gonna get a whole bunch of PAWESOME comments, from PAWESOME bloggers??

Duchess

The dog with a blog

Duchess Day!

Hey guys, it's Duchess here.
I finished up my studies on blogger world, so I should be a pro at this!
Toby's Raiser has been busy with introducing me to EVERYTHING!
Somehow she thinks I should meet some animals...
Yesterday I met some mini pigs, a new baby goat, chickens, a llama, alpacas, bunnies and SO MUCH MORE!
I didn't like the alpacas to much, and that pig freaked me out!
My handler took many pictures of me meeting animals & such, so make sure to check out the pictures below (she even tags them!).
I got to help set up for a 4-H yard sale yesterday, and today it opened, so we went up to help "man" it. I got to lay there and be bored for HOURS; but my handler told me I did very good :)(P.S. Toby's Raiser will be called My handler, because she isn't my raiser/trainer).
Tomorrow I will be attending a guide dog puppy meeting. I heard something about it being at a police station...
More updates later, enjoy the pictures!
Please leave comments, as I want to know how my blogging is...Thanks!
Duchess
The dog with a blog

Charlotte's Web

Do any of you guys remember the name of this blog?? Here I'll help you -

It starts with "Toby's" which means it's MY blog, do you get why my trainer keeps posting on it?? Because I sure don't!

They still have no idea what's wrong with me - but I am "enjoying" getting 3 pills each day!

My trainer drove me and her family to a "Charlotte's Web play" that her friend was in.  I really enjoyed it - I got to see some really odd costumes, someone was even dressed up as a pig! (guess that would make sense).

My trainer took a couple pictures of me- but none during the play/or of the play.

Enjoy!

Toby

"The dog with a blog"

Liberty & Frankie- please help us decide!

As you guys know I will be leaving to the school this month for Walk-A-thon(28th), and won't be coming back:(
(it's called In For Training-IFT)

I am still in the breeder program so there is a possibility I won't be a guide, but I am told being a breeder dog is even better!

The only problem is... my trainer won't get a new dog until 2-4 more months, and I go back this month. I really don't want to leave my blog "blank" for months on end, but my trainer isn't getting a new dog for awhile.

There were only 4 choices my trainer and I came up with for the next few months:

1. Leave the blog blank- only update with Frankie

2. Get Brax to send updates & pictures(it won't be often, his owner is VERY busy)

3. Liberty takes over in the interim

4. Liberty takes over and Brax can help when he has time (and of course all of those include updates from me when my trainer gets them each month!)

What do you think?? Let me know which I should do, Liberty is begging me to let her take over the blog for a few months, so hurry and help me decide!!

Just put your favorite idea in a comment and let me know, or come up with your own!!

Make sure you go to the bottom of this post and check out the new videos and pictures!!

Frankie

My trainer entered Liberty in a

"true love" contest, this is the photo

she entered!

Libety "pushing" herself out from under the couch!

Liberty is always soo cute in her bed!

Liberty chewing on Cocoa's ear

My trainer & Liberty with the horse

Liberty "riding" the horse

Liberty REALLY wanted to meet the horse,

my trainer was worried about the horse

stepping on her,but I don't think Liberty cared...

Me trying to get Liberty-who is under the couch!