Rory was raised in Pennsylvania by a family with 4 children aged 8 to 15. They had 2 other friendly and affectionate dogs but no cats. She was a good eater and was clean in the house. They took her outside to empty on a regular schedule so she didn’t need to tell them when … Read more
The next two days at the Seeing Eye were pretty uneventful compared to the last few days :). We started the South Route on Thursday and soloed it on Friday afternoon. The first two trips went without a hitch. She is really focusing on curbs now and doing a great job. I did notice that … Read more
Rory was born on 3/29/2008. Barb just came in and told me. She is also a pure Black Lab.
This turned out to be an exciting day. I was a bit worried that Rory would keep me up during the night but she slept very well. I could hear her sometimes moving around but she really did a great job sleeping. I got up at 5:10 and quickly showered, shaved and got dressed before … Read more
Tuesday was a difficult day for me. We got up, parked our dogs and ate breakfast. I was going to go out with Tom Pender (the class supervisor) to work on pull with Vincent. I went in on the 8:45 shuttle and met Tom there. We drove in the Prius to Madison, NJ. He had … Read more
I am writing this on Wednesday, May 5. I am a bit behind. Monday, May 3, we got up at the sound of the wake up call and I got ready for the day and took Vincent out. I had cereal for breakfast. We started the Elm Street route and I expressed more concern about … Read more
Sunday was a great day of rest. We got up at 6:30 and took the dogs out to PARC. We had a yummy yummy breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon and English muffins. Did I tell you it was really really yummy . After breakfast we went upstairs to get the information on our dogs. Vincent’s … Read more
Today is solo day where we have to work the route we have been working out without any instructor involvement. It was hot in my room over night so I slept on top of the covers and was awakened by the announcement of PARC time. I quickly dressed, fed Vincent and took him out. I … Read more
I did forget that I worked with Lucas Franck in the morning on Clicker Training again. We first sat at a table and looked at a map of the dining room. He then had me work Vincent to the new location where I will be sitting to eat in the new dining room. He attached … Read more
The day started about 5:30 or so. I took Vincent out to park and came back to write Day 6’s blog post and to read mail and tweets. I then went down for breakfast. As usual I was on the first trip and went with Lee as a pair on the South Street route. Walt … Read more