Carin hasn’t figured out how to post photos through the iPhone WordPress app yet, and since she’s not exactly awash in extra time, she asked me to put up this photo of Tansy for her. So…here she is!
Category Archives: training journals
New Guide Dog Journals Day 5
Today’s going well. Tansy is being more goofy. Adam distracted us, but Tansy didn’t care. Yesterday she went right for him and I had done my first timeout But today not so much. Had a really good route this morning. The only thing I did at the end was step in her poop. Ok. That’s …
New guide dog journals Day 4
I’m up obscenely early. Hope it doesn’t come back to bite me. I think I forgot to mention that the new handle I got was extra short but also urgo. I haven’t noticed a massive difference but I do feel little things. Another thing about Tansy. When she’s done relieving, she will not let you …
New Guide Dog Journals Day 3
Oops. I slept in this morning. Was up emailing and fighting with the WordPress app. Let’s not do that again. I usually don’t sleep in until the second week of training. Tansy is still giving me trouble with heeling but the instructors are helping me. Got a shorter handle. Let’s hope that feels better. She’s …
New Guide Dog Journals Day 2
Well I survived to tell the tale, or maybe it should be tail, har har har. A few things I didn’t mention yesterday because I literally couldn’t write anymore. The hotel seemed overwhelmingly difficult but I think it’s getting easier. There are clues on every floor. Unfortunately the elevator neither beeps nor speaks the floors, …
New Guide Dog Journals Day 1
Well I’m on the plane. And I complained last time about having to be up at 4. Try getting up at 2:30. It was an interesting experience. Like I said, Steve’s mom was nice enough to drive me to the airport. But she had to go to another terminal than me. So I had made …
New Dog, Here We Come!
Well…tomorrow I get on a plane. Yup, that long awaited March 24 is tomorrow. I’m getting a ride to the airport (thank you Steve’s mom) so that means 3 a.m. I’ll be leaving. Yee ha! Guess who’s not sleeping tonight? We’re definitely seeing signs that this pooch is going to come. I have hooks in …
Long Weekend Audio: The First Of Many Casts
Well…our first audio is up. We had hoped to have it up last night, but we kind of fell over after we finished recording it. The file got uploaded to the server, but hell if I was going to write the post around it. So I’m writing it this morning. Poor Steve had to start …
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An Interview With Carin And I All About Adjusting To Guide Dog Life
We should have been all over this like fat kids on candies last week, but since late to the party should almost be our next header slogan nowadays, let’s just go ahead and do this now, shall we? Shane, one of the lovely and talented folks responsible for the new home our website has now, …
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More Training Tales At Training Tails
Here’s another blog to read, if you just can’t get enough of reading about other people’s guide dog training experiences. Jenny has decided she wants to recap both her training experiences she had with her previous guides, and talk about the process she’s going through to prepare for guide dog no. 3. There isn’t much …