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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 puppy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label puppy. Show all posts

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Pal Who?

*(written by Brandon's raiser)*
I'm happy to announce the newest guide dog puppy that I'm raising...
Please welcome "Pal", he's a male yellow lab and super sweet!
He's birth date is March 10th 2013, which makes him about 16 1/2 weeks old.
Sorry to be so slow with updates, but I do hope to be posting a "little" more often!

-Pal's puppy raiser 

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Another Day??

Yep!
I offered to keep Tracker another day (or 2) if they (my neighbors) needed. It seems that Tracker is a "little" bit of a handful for a person who just had back surgery, so he came over this morning. (Liberty was quite happy!) and spent all day with me!

I'm loving how housebroken he is, and of course, how well he listens.
(I'm thinking... future guide dog?? Joking:) But he is smart enough for one!)

He's a great dog, and I'm so happy I get my "puppy fix" AND get a chance with "puppy training" before my new little one arrives :) (It's kind of like a "refresher course"!)

Tracker is a cutie, which makes for great pictures...
So enjoy the pictures (AND movies) below!

Toby's Raiser & Tracker's Sitter
The human sometimes with a dog that has a blog

Picture of Tracker sleeping on a LARGE dog bed
Was going to be a really nice (and cute) picture of just Tracker - 'til Liberty stuck he big head in the right side - the picture is focused on Tracker though






Cute picture taken of Tracker's face - the camera worked opposite of what I wanted though - it tried to blur out Tracker's face... and make the background nice! He's still quite cute though :)


Black/white picture of Tracker's face (side view)
















(Movies of Tracker "attacking" Liberty... he may think he's winning - but Liberty is still bigger!)

Monday, April 26, 2010

He's Here!

Remember the "new puppy" I would get on May 19th?
HE CAME TODAY!

Tracker showed up this morning at 8am, he's the cutest 8 week old pup I've ever seen!
I introduced him to the guide dog coat, took him on some puppy outings, then brought him back home to rest.

Oh wait... this "new puppy" isn't mine... he's not even in training to be a guide dog...

Sorry, had to trick you guys!

Tracker is a 8 week old Black Mouth Cur puppy. My neighbors just got him last Friday.
He came right when the owner was scheduled to have back surgery, so I offered to watch him.

She's having the back surgery today, so Tracker came over this morning. I will keep him all day today and tomorrow, FUN!!
I also plan on helping out with Tracker over the next couple weeks (before my new puppy comes), so you guys may be seeing a lot of cute puppy pictures!
Toby's Raiser & Trackers Sitter
The human with a dog (for now!) that has a blog

Cute photo of Tracker, it's taken at his eye level.  He is a cream colored dog with a black mouth - who is VERY CUTE!
Photo taken at Trackers eye level, Tracker is playing with a orange rubber toy



Picture of Tracker in a down with Liberty standing over him - he looks like a mini Liberty!




Picture of Tracker snuggled up on his bed





Photo taken above Tracker, he is playing with Toby's toys - and enjoying it!

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)

Sunday, January 10, 2010

An Icy update...

Toby and his siblings siting on ice-

(left to right) Cassie, Rocky, Spike, and Toby
(Toby's other sister Duchess had already left)


Hey guys,
Saturday I was taken to an ice skating rink... for puppy class!!
We arrived about 30 minutes early, so we just wandered around watching the ice skaters, and meeting new people.
Once everybody arrived, we headed outside (yes it was COLD!!), and started obedience.
We did some "right rights", "left lefts", "sits", "stays", "stands" and lots more!
After all of our trainers/raisers were frozen we headed back inside.

We then worked on "down under" (going under the benches inside), my trainer told me I did very well.
When I thought we were done, my trainer took me into a room called "The Puddle", which I than found out pretty quickly was a small ice rink... and all of us dogs were taken on it.
For the first little bit I wasn't to sure about the ice, but soon I was comfortably on it, and so were all the other dogs:)
We had 10+ dogs & puppies on the ice, we had fun!

My trainer even got someone on ice skates to take me for a "ride", she could skate fast!

Before leaving we decided to get a group picture - but the only ones my trainer has are blurry :(
However; she did manage to get pictures of me & my 3 siblings (one had already left), without the trainers/raisers in the pictures!
And I won't even start the story of what happened on our way home from the ice rink,
Lets just say the policeman & paramedics were quite nice...
Enjoy the pictures,


Toby
The dog with a blog





(Toby sitting on ice, beside person on ice skates)






(Toby & his 2 siblings on ice,
Rocky laying down, Spike standing up licking Toby's face, & Toby sitting)





(Toby running after person on ice skates)





(Toby & me on ice, both standing)












(Picture of random dogs on ice, Toby's face in right bottom corner)





(Toby jumping onto ice)












(Close up of Toby running happily on ice)





(Close up of Toby's cute face, while he is doing a "down under")











(Toby sitting beside bench- getting ready to do "down under")





(Toby laying down under bench, staring off at a cute little puppy that's not in the picture!)










(Black & white picture of a little girl petting Toby, while he is in a sit stay)










Tuesday, January 5, 2010

A visitor...

Guess who was at my house last night?
Here are a couple hints, the first letter is a "P" the last is a "Y", and it gives lots of kisses.
If you guessed "Puppy" then your right!!



My trainer's piano teacher just got a new boxer puppy last week, and they brought him to our house!

After calming down I was allowed to meet and play with him, man he was cute! (I can't believe I used to be his size!).

His name is Brutus, and is a 8 week old brindle boxer.

They are evening thinking bringing about bringing him back again! I sure hope they do, I would love a play pal!
My trainer made sure to get lots of pictures of him.

Saturday I will be going to puppy class... but for this outing we are going to the ice skating rink!!
My trainer hopes she doesn't forget her camera:)


Please enjoy the pictures of me and Brutus playing, and stay tune for a "icy" post!





Toby
The dog with a blog









(Brutus laying on top of Liberty, with Toby to the side)














(Toby smelling Brutus's face)
























(Toby in a down stay, with Brutus beside Toby)
















(Brutus "pawing" Toby's face)























(Brutus jumping out of the dog toy bucket)