Sleep Over

I went with my trainer to her friend's house for a couple days. They didn't have any dogs but when we went on walks we met more then 50!



I had the time of my life, My trainer got a couple photos so don't forget to look at them!


Brax



Me playing with a toy, (that I don't have)

My trainers friend petting me

Me looking out the window at other dogs

What toy should I play with?

No!!!!!!!

My trainer has gotten my IFT (In for training) dates!!! I will be going back Jan 21-24. I am glad I can still stay through Christmas but, now I know when I am going back! I am a little excited but sad because I will miss my trainer (and she will miss me to!)

We still are trying to figure out if she is picking up the new puppy when I am dropped off, (and if it is going to be a Goldadore like me!)

I will keep you updated about the new puppy, I hope I get to meet him/her (so stay in touch)



Brax

Merry Christmas!!

Me wearing reindeer antlers

after we put up the tree.

Since I am staying 'til January/February, I am here for another Christmas!! That means Santa might bring me a big bone or a basket full of toys (stuffed animals!). My trainer has already put up my stocking, (since it smells like treats because I used it last year, I really want to get to it).

I found this picture of me when taking down the Christmas tree last year,

(its all of the lights lit up on me!)

Merry Christmas!

Brax

Movies

We went to go see the Bee movie a couple weeks ago, & Enchanted a week ago. Of course I had to be bored out of me mind for hours, I never get to see any fun movies. Like Guide dogs are the best & guide dogs rule movies, but no they don't make movies like that (where you get to watch it full screen, not on the TV at home). At least I got to go see fire house dog, but what's with that? Fire dogs get all of the attention at the movies. Let's tell Hollywood its time for a guide dog to be front and center.

So, to me movie theaters are boring!!!! But guess what!!! When Enchanted was over we were leaving, and somebody spilled there whole bag of popcorn on the floor right in front of me! (supper!!!!) But my owner told me "leave it" (yes I was walking with my owner who was in the wheelchair) & I did not even put my head down!!! She was soo happy with me that I got lots of praise!

Brax

Snow

I have been looking back at older photos taken of me, and at the beginning of the year (in January) I found some pictures of me playing in the snow. I had lots of fun.

Brax


She is getting ready to throw a snow ball!






I had soo much fun!
















don't I look like a bunny rabbit!

Or a kangaroo
















Sure hope it snows again before I go back!

Trainer update

My trainer keeps saying all she wants for Christmas is for me to make it through Graduate school, & for her to get the cast off before Christmas! Well she won't know if I will make it through graduate school for a at least a couple months, but the bone Doctor said that she has a possibility of getting the cast of before Christmas.


I am still helping her around the house (by bringing my toys to her so she can throw them for me!)

That reminds me, here are some photos of me playing vet with my trainer & her sister (yes I am the patient)



Me pretending to be hurt!

Me acting sick on a tie down,
with a broken leg (yes in a cast/ace wrap)




















Brax

Farm Fun Photos!

Arriving

Dancer sniffing me!

(with Muffin in the back)

Dancer sniffing Sherman

(welcome to the group!)

Muffin & Callie

Meeting animals

Marcia sniffing Callie (poor little kitten)

Dancer

Ralph, Singita, & Mulligan,
meeting the pig

Benjamin meeting the animals

Sherman



Marcia meeting Patches

Dancer meets Patches

Sherman meets Patches

Ralph takes the first ride!

And loves it!

Brax

Me & my toy

Dosen't my toy look fun to play with!
It's name is PIG.

Brax

FARM FUN!

I had the best day of my... well not life! But something like that. My whole puppy group came to my farm. We got all of the trainers to bring food, and we all walked around, (okay yes my trainer is still hurt but we took a chance and brought her out of the house in the wheelchair, and yes she wheeled herself and held me! All of the trainers kept saying that I might be cross trained which means I could be a guide dog for a blind and disabled person!).

After I showed all my puppy friends to my farm pals, we had my trainer and trainer's dad hitch the horse to the wagon and give wagon rides!!
Then we shot off guns (yes all of this is exposure's for the dogs).
Our trainers ate, then all the puppy raisers signed there name and there dogs name on my trainer's cast.
Everybody left but one family, (who has a new puppy named Sherman) they let him off lead in the house and we had a blast!! After 5-10 minutes they got the puppy on lead and headed home.



Make sure you look at the photos!!




Brax

Body Worlds

I went to Body worlds a couple weeks ago. It is a whole bunch of people with no skin and just bones. (but they did have a really big horse there). The most boring place I have been to, (whether or not its for school, because it has nothing to do with sit, stay, heel, or forward!)

But I did survive becasue my trainer said that in a couple of days we will have ALL of our guide dog group come to my house, if I am good!



So make sure you check that post out!





Brax

Fiber fair photos

Me with balls and balls and balls of yarn!!!








Me with a little girl I met there








Cuddles! With her jacket on
















Me when my trainer is doing a work shop










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Its fair time; the third time!!

Now that I have gone to a horse show and a goat show, I have gone to a fiber fair!!!! My trainer showed a angora goat there, and won third. (make sure you look at the picture of it with a jacket on since it got its hair taken off!!)

The fair had bunny rabbits, but everything else was FIBER... well, and yarn, spinning wheels, knitting things, and some other weird stuff.

Don't forget to look at the fiber fair photos!!


Brax

Why?

I bet a lot of you people (and dogs!) are wondering why I have not done a post for a while. It's because of my trainer, you see she was in a accident because a horse fell on her while she was riding. And since she can't get to the computer very easily she dosen't have any time to check my spelling. (well and unlock it so I can get on!!) Now she thought it would be good for me to quickly update my blog.



I can't wait to see all of the comments (if I am ever going to get back on!)





Brax

ITS FAIR TIME AGAIN!!!!!!!!!

This time instead of a horse show its a goat show! I was in the goat barn most of the time! but a couple times my trainer's dad (since my trainer was showing goats with all of her siblings) took me to see some shows. One time I was laying down with my trainer (yes "in" the goat barn!) When a working guide dog was walking by and stopped to say hello. That Lab was only 16-17 months old (well she just finished her training) but since I was in my coat I could not play!! I didn't find out what school she came from, since my trainer had to go wash some goats and I had to go to.

Sorry but I can't find the photos I got.


Brax

IT'S THE FAIR!!!

There are 3 good things about the fair: 1: Food, 2: Kids, 3: Animals, and... well there are 3 bad things about the fair. 1: I can't eat the food, 2: The kids can't pet me, 3: I am in uniform so I can't play with animals. I have been to the fair morning and night for 5 days!!! I wouldn't mind too much but... I can't get the meat, popcorn, candy, drinks, fries, and everything else the fair serves. But the reason I am up there twice a day is because my trainer is showing horses!She was at the fair AGAIN today and I had to sit "in" the horse stall (which was her storage stall) for 4 hours!

She was washing and grooming her horse because the show was that day. Now I wasn't really alone, either my trainer or her sister, or even her dad would take turns sitting with me and visiting. All the fair visitors would peek inside my stall and thought I was the best horse there!

When she was finally ready the show was about to start and I had to go with her mom! I don't think I would have been able to go in the show ring (but it was a good idea!) My trainer was against 6 other people and her horse got third, then in showmanship she was against 8 people and got fourth. Don't forget to look at Fair photos (and leave a comment).


Brax

Fair photos

Me watching kids show goats







Me at the bee booth (guarding it!!!!)














Me in the (well I think you can guess!) the storage stall, between our two horses.




Me watching the horse show (my trainer is in there to)
















Now I can say that I have been exposed to bears!

















Have you ever been to a fair? Did you ever have to sit in a storage stall for four hours? Or not been able to eat the "yummy" fair food? Tell me by leaving a comment!!!

Note: The comments are screened before they are posted. That's why they don't show up right away.



Brax

Graduate School - When do I go back?

As some of you people have noticed on my older posts it said I will be going IFT sometime in October. But since then my trainer has asked our AC and she said they have now changed it to the end of January or even as late as the end of February. When it gets closer to the time I can let you know the exact date. Right know I am 15 and a half months old! The reason they have changed the date (which they have done to all of the dogs) is because all the dogs are coming IFT and they are still way to "puppyish". So now they are adding a couple months on to the training for the puppy raisers. But if I was going to be going back in October, it would have been the first 2 weeks! ...which means I might be gone know!!!

I am still trying to figure out what I am going to do about the next dog, doing my blog or starting its own? Maybe my trainer can keep my blog updated even when she'd doing a new one. Oh, I know, wouldn't it be great if my new blind owner could keep my blog up? If you guys have any ideas leave me a commment!

Thanks

Brax

Airport meeting photos

Loading the plane






Maggie fits in the bath room!
No, not the lady. Maggie's a black Lab.





I fit in the bathroom too, just barely!









waiting for other people to come












ready to take-off






Our trainers getting name tags




heading towards the airplane



















Brax

Airport meeting

Hi guys!



My friend just reminded me that I forgot to leave a post on the airport meeting I went to a couple of weeks ago.

We went to the airport and instead of walking around the "inside" of the airport, like last year, we got to go in to the hanger (like a garage for an airplane). They even let us board an airplane. (Me and a friend got first class half the time!) Make sure you look at airport meeting photos they are great!

My trainer reads your comments too me, so thanks for leaving them,



Brax

Hope's pictures

My friend (who just happens to be a "real" working dog) actually has an owner. (yes she is blind). Well you see my trainer's mom helped my friend's owner take pictures. She told her how to hold the camera and where the buttons are. She said things like "point it more to the left" or "hold the camera more level, don't let it point toward the ground". A couple of the shots are dark (but it doesn't matter). Hope says they aren't too dark for her!



BTW, my trainer wanted me to tell you why she does put words beside the picture, even though you can see it and tell what we are doing. The reason is... since my trainer's friend is blind that means she can't she the pictures, but she CAN have her computer read out loud the little captions for each picture .





this one is a little dark
(but I am in it! See me with my trainer?)
This on is not dark but is a little sideways, and all of us dogs, and trainers too, are way off to the left.










This one has a little of me in it and my owner is only half in it!



















This is a good one of us looking at the balls as they roll by, and sometimes bounce. Some of my buddies were really tempted, but I stayed perfectly still and ignored them.

















Muffin, aren't you proud of your owners photography skills!

Don't forget to leave a comment



Brax