Change of Plans!

Zuni was taken out of class last week and is being evaluated by the training department..No matter what Zuni decides to do, his 2nd raiser would be happy to keep him or see him working!


Last week we got some really sad news that our very loved Guide, Marina, was retired due to her person passing away froom cancer..She had been working for 14 months and the woman's husband will be keeping her...Marina was raised by myself, 3 co-workers and another friend..She had ALOT of love from all 4 of her homes and 3 of us would have been in line to keep her...Many people know her brother, Marino, who has sired quite a few litters now..


We also got news that our former puppy, Vona, was CCed in phase 8 due to a soft trachea! Vona also had 4 homes and is going to live with her 3rd raiser who adored her..We had a disappointing week I guess, but I personally am very happy for Vona and am confident that Marina will love being a spoiled pet.


We heard that Jethro is on the February recall...Time sure goes fast..I am hopeing to puppysit one of my favorite dogs ever, Vino, before he is also recalled in February, but we will see if it works out...


Nothing is new for Lowell..He's our big, sweet, boy...I bought a very nice, expensive, dog bed from my work for my pet dog a few weeks ago and Lowell has taken up residence in it...He's pretty sure he needs a cushy dog bed at all times..


I have no new photos of our guide dog puppies, but I am getting a 10 week old red lab mix puppy into my rescue that is way too cute..

Updates

I have not been posting for awhile..been busy starting my own rescue and I have decided not to raise again for GDB..My roommate is still going to raise, but after Lowell returns to campus I will be done.

(A friend's dog, Lowell and CC Claudine)

Lowell is now a year old and just a big, dumb, goofball. He's 75+ pounds of uncoordinated lab. We love him, but he sure is goofy.


Zuni-a starter puppy we had is in class to graduate. Zuni is half sibling to our career change and is the dark red color that I love. Our friend, Ali, raised him most of his time and is so excited for her 2nd dog to graduate....Funny that we will have 6 graduates now, 4 CCs, 1 in phase 8 and 3 still with raisers..

(Tabetha (new mommy for GDB), and Zuni the soon-to-be graduate!)

If only our first graduate would decide to come home-life would be good:) My story about miss Emmy is going to be published in "Dog World" magazine in the next few months and was on the Guide Dog Blog a few weeks ago..She's pretty special!
Kim

Lowe and Vannie

Lowe dog is almost 10 months now and headed for surgery tomorrow because he has OCD in both shoulders..Poor guy..He has been limping less lately, but we're all looking at 6+ weeks of "resting" him...so that will be interesting!
Luckily, he will get to go to a puppysitter with no other dogs for 2 weeks..Before she gets her 1st puppy-a FYL "C" puppy..

(Lowe and my pet dog, Sidney)

Vannie is going to her new raiser (in our club) on Halloween...The raiser raised Doug's sister, Deanna, and currently has FYL Karma..She loves Vannie already and I think it will work great-she's a spitfire of a puppy!

(Vannie)

I am having puppy fever (like every few months!)..I need a little red or yellow female pup to foster/raise or keep....Decisions..Decisions..

Lowe Dog..

Lowell got neutered last week--woohoo..We were happy to no longer have the 65 pound intact boy :)...Lowell is 9 months old and 65 pounds of solid pup! He takes after his daddy and is stubborn as any dog I know!

Poor Lowe dog has to have shoulder surgery on both of his shoulders on October 20th..He will be recouperating for a while and spend some time with a new raiser in our club that has no other dogs. We're told her will be just fine to head into training in the spring!

One of my favorite pups in our club became a breeder and was bred to Baker a few weeks ago..We can't wait to see little Tabetha puppies!

Many of the pups in our club have evals this week..Simon has had FOUR litters in the past few months and were told has another breeding date set...I can't wait to see some of them..I would love to get a Simon/Mochi or Simon/Peach puppy, but chances are slim to none since we can't request Simon pups...Hopefully some will come up to Oregon so we can see them!

Short term Puppy #14..

4 new pups arrived in our club yesterday..We will be helping with "Vannie" (6/24/11 Sarita/Hurley)..She is 10 weeks old tomorrow and we will be helping with her until her 1st time raisers can take her to school. She's a tiny little girl-seemed a little "soft" compared to the other pups, so it will be interesting to see how she progresses..

Vannie's sister, Valkyrie joined our club as her raisers 1st baby puppy, FYL Sapphire (6/25/11 Pomonoa/Marino) came to her 1st time raiser and Golden Girl Ginger (6/30/11 GEDs Mia/Patrick) came to her long time raisers as their 1st golden!

Vancouver, Lennox and Jodianne were the pups on the truck for recall (we think!)..and there were 2 more "V" pups and 2 more "S" pups headed up north..Super Cute!

Fun Day

Fun Day was a long, long day!! Was really great to spend the day with Tabetha and say goodbye to her and Zuni..Tabetha's off to California tonight for breeder evals..Zuni went in for training today..

We got to see Lowe dog's 2 brothers and a few other Simon pups as well as Vino, Jethro and Vona:)

We still have some cute t-shirts and oval stickers for sale if anyone is interested-email kimberly1488@hotmail.com

The T-shirts are grey or white and say "In the heart of every guide dog beats the heart of a puppyraiser"..

The oval stickers say "I love my guide dog puppy", "I love my career change guide dog puppy" and "Guide Dog puppy raiser"...I will post photos tomorrow...

T-shirts are $15 and stickers are $5!

Foster Pup..

Our foster pup is looking for an AMAZING home and has her own blog
www.hoppylookingforlove.blogspot.com