Posts related to the Seeing Eye dog guide school.
Well, it is 2:30 in the morning on the day I am going home. Yes, obviously I can’t sleep so here I am wrapping up the blog with my journey at the Seeing Eye. During day 16 I checked out with the admissions staff. I paid the money I owed the school for supplies, and … Read more
I will get pictures up a bit later. Here are the stats on Chief: Dog Name: Chief Sex: Male Breed: Yellow Lab Goden Cross 3 Height: 23.3 inches Weight: 69 Pounds Puppy Profile Family Composition Chief was raised by an adult couple, husband and wife. Both were the primary raisers. Environment Chief was brought up … Read more
We made it to the last week of class. Things are beginning to wind down and it cannot come soon enough! I got up a bit earlier than usual and took him out for park and groomed him very early on Monday. In the morning we ventured out to work on bus work. This went … Read more
In the afternoon on Sunday, we went to the pet store. This was the first time I heard a noise come from my dog. He was quite excited while we were in the pet store. While at the pet store we bought an ID tag for my dog. The prices of these tags has gone … Read more
Today is Sunday, July 30. We have more class members leaving the school today. We had one leave yesterday and one leave today so the numbers in the class are thinning out a bit. I leave next Thursday August 3rd. This morning we had exit interviews. I am planning on raising the following points: • … Read more
On day twelve we had two trips. After breakfast we traveled quite a distance from campus to a terribly busy part of town where they had five lane crossings which also included an island in the middle of the street. We also dealt with extensive overheads and collaborated with the dogs on working through them. … Read more
Before we proceed with the rest of day eleven’s activities, I wanted to point out how difficult it is to write without expressing or mentioning gender or names of my guide. To give this a way, my dog is a boy but that is all we will say for now. Come back on Sunday for … Read more
This brings us to Tuesday, and it was a remarkably interesting day to say the least. We started with the normal park time and breakfast. We proceeded to go out to practice the Elm street route once more on Tuesday morning. The weather was quite nice. All things went quite well on this trip and … Read more
Yes, I am behind a bit so combining two days. On Sunday we got up at the normal time and prepared to venture out for our South Street solo. We did quite well as a team. Lots of people were bustling about on a Sunday morning so we had people distractions, dog distractions but less … Read more
We are now on day six, almost at the half way point for retrains. Believe it or not, I am already starting to pack things I won’t use for the rest of class. Yes, I am eager to get home! Today is the day we run through the South Street route one more time before … Read more