Week of Work

Hey Everyone,

Time for the weekly update of our clan. The great thing about working with Service Dogs, is no matter how busy you are, you don't have to neglect your dog.

Because he's with you!

Ben and I have been going none stop almost all week it seems like. I have implemented some new restraints on myself,money wise, and have tried to grocery shop once a month.

So Monday he and I trucked through store, after store. The Poor guy was sooo tired by the time we headed home; he crashed. But he did great, no pulling, sitting for petting. Yay!

Tuesday- I held a one on one class with one of our new foster families, Ben was the demo dog, and did fabulously! After that headed out to Wilderwood's Puppy Kennels, one of our puppies was heading to his new foster home, so we were there to meet with his new family, and send him on his way.

Wednesday - I worked pretty much all day.

Thursday - Our one and only day of rest. Though we went out to eat with friends that evening. Ben I believe may be claustrophobic, as he had a hard time settling down in the small space we were in.

Friday - The weeks craziest day, my poor dogs were sooo neglected, I was able to give them a short walk before I left for work, by the time I got off work, bought dog food, and got home, I only had an hour before I had to get ready to go over to Asheville. (which is about 1.5 hrs away.)
Got home at 2:30AM.

Saturday - Scrambled out of bed, dove into some clothes, made up some kongs, and dashed Ben out the door. Only when I was about 15 minutes away, did I realize I forgot to give Bubbles and Texas their KONG's, and FORGOT MY CAMERA!!!!
I was headed back out to WSD's Kennels for another puppy pick up, and wanted to get pics of all the little guys, but alas and alack.

Maybe next time! The babies were sooooooo cute, I kept threatening to take one with me! I miss having a baby puppy in the house. *sniff*

As it turns out it was probably a good thing I didn't give B & T KONG's while I was gone, since Bubbles decided to fight Texas over it. While he needed his little butt whooped, I don't allow that in my house, so the poor KONG has been sitting on the bookshelf all by his lonesome. :((

This next week holds lots of new adventures and changes for us, Can We Do It? YES WE CAN!

Ooh lots of things....

Weekends {by Buddy}

Dear Furpals,
It is with a joyful heart, that I bring to you, an excerpt from a book, I am writing called:

"When Humans Over Sleep"
Chapter 2
Available July 2019

This chapter deals with the 5 ways to awake your human,if he or she has overslept. This is something I have to deal with frequently with my current human, cause she is sooo lazy.
There area couple nice approaches that I want to bring out, and the first one is:

The "Stand-at-the-side-of-the-bed-and-look-cute", this is the nicest of approaches, and can only be done with the sensitive humans; so if you have a really gullible human, this one might work for you.

Second would be the "sweetly-lick-hand-or-face-if-close-to-edge-of-bed". In this technique, you are approaching the bed, quietly, and gently telling your human, that he/she needs to get up. If your human likes doggy kisses, you are more likely to get a smile out of them this way. My human doesn't, so I'm more likely to get swatted. (EDITORS NOTE:REFLEX ONLY PEOPLE!!!)

The next one is the "stand-at-the-door-and-whine", this one is a little bit more aggressive, as it makes the human think you need to go potty, (I would advise loud, long moans, and short barks for this one). But I have found this one will back fire, sometimes, as the human will let you out, and then go back to bed. Pottying inside, will defiantly help them stay up longer, and increase the chances of them not going back to sleep.

Those are all good and well, for some of you, (*coughTexas* *coughBubbles*), but when I wake up my human, I want her to be WIDE awake, and in a state of mind, to take me outside, walk me, and feed me.

This process is a multi-step process, so kids get out your pens and notepads. *ahem*

Step 1: as soon as you here that bizarre ringing thing, go off, jump up, and run to the side of the bed.If there is no movement from the human, hop on to the bed, and peer into their face.

If the eyes are still shut, proceed to step 2.

Step 2: Began washing humans face vigorously with lots of slobber, this is sure to cause them to at LEAST stir. Most will probably push your head away, or bury their head under the pillows.

Do not be discourage if the happens, as its time for step three.

Step 3: Lay down beside human, in my case, Bubbles and Texas are in the bed, so my laying down, is normally on them. (Ohwell)

Step 4: Stick paws in humans, face, and lick.

Step 5: Roll onto Human, with full weight, continue with step 4.

Now if you have a stubborn human like I do, they might fake getting up, and do something like sit up and look at the clock.
The mistake I make here, is getting off the bed at this point. Because as soon as I get off, she lays BACK DOWN!!?

Sometimes I'll give in and let her have a few more minutes,but as soon as that ringy thing goes off again, immediately start with step 5 and repeat, also inlisting help of your furry housemates will help as well.

When human yells something like:"OK ALL DOGS OFF THE BED".

You know your job is complete.

Editors Note: See what I have to put up with in the mornings? He only started the body slamming/rolling onto thing this morning. New tactic I suppose. *eye roll*

Out on the Town {by: Texas}

Ok so decided that I need more socialization etc, for some reason, I mean I'm already the awesomest dog she has, but it was cool, cause she doesn't take places a lot like she used to. Well that and I like to scream at everyone and anything walk or moving outside of the vehicle, and I'm worse on leash.

She hasn't taken me out on leash in places other than at home, so she said this was going to be an adventure. We parked in this big dark place, and only Bubbles and I got out. As soon as we started to leave that place there were like THREE dogs out there and I KNEW they were laughing at me. And I don't take that offa NOBODY, and cause Bubbles is a great sister,she joined in until Mom told us to "Look" and "Sit".

Ok so its hard to do that and bark at them, at the same time, so we did what she asked, and got a treat for it. And we were able to move on. Than someone dared to walk past me...and I had to yell at them for that.

So mom picked me up, and corrected me every time I tried to yell at someone. So I decided being quiet was better...and more rewarding. :))

::Seriously Mom? In front of the garbage can?"::

And since I was being quiet, she put me down, and we got to walk around downtown, and smell all kinds of new things, and see new places. And I didn't even bark a single time else! Not even when there was a bird right in front of us!!!!

Mom was really happy, and after a little bit we went back to the car, since it was super hot!

After that, she and Ben kept getting in and out of the car, always real quick,since it was super hot out. But she made sure we had lots of water and were in the shade when she had to leave, but even then was nervous, and shopped real quick!
But we did get a treat for all of our hard work, FROSTY PAWS!! :))

::Dinner AND Dessert::

::Yummy::

After that, we couldn't even move! ...which is why mom is writing this down for me, cause I can't move from the couch!

See Ya!
Texas

- Random Photo: Texas had to get a bath yesterday, for rolling in poop. eeeewww

Our Weekend {by Buddy}

Hey Gang,
WOW has Mom been busy!! One of her friends was getting, married this weekend, and she was the pianist for the wedding, so Friday she was in a real big hurry. Since I had gone out on Thursday, it was Daniels turn to go with her, so she took him too the rehearsal with her.

She said he was an angel, sit/waiting at the end of the buffet table while she got her food, and then laying quietly at her feet while they went through the rehearsal. Halfway through one of her siblings took him, and the kids played with him, while mom practiced and practiced.

FINALLY they came back, and she let us run around outside, it was weird playing in the dark, but fun!

Saturday, she was gone a really, really, really long time. She didn't take either of us, cause she said it was too hot.(the wedding was outdoors) I'm like WHATEVER.

When she came back, she played with us for a little bit...AND LEFT AGAIN! ugh. So basically Saturday was a really boring day for us dogs, though she did let us do the whole play outside in the dark thing.

Sunday, it was my turn to go out, and I escorted my mom and a big group of her friends, to a restaurant. They all ooed and aahed over me, (Cause I'm sooo handsome) I didn't pull at all, and laid very quietly under her chair while they ate. I even slept a tiny bit, but its more interesting to watch the people walk by.

Today Mom took Daniel to a different trainer, so he could start learning more autism skills. She took me too, cause she wanted to see if I would pull harder in a newer surroundings. Well as we were walking out of the parking garage, we almost ran into a lady talking on her phone.

She didn't realize what she was looking at when she saw Daniel (I'm guessing) and was scrambling to get out of our way!! It was quite funny.

But Daniel and I walked through downtown, on a mostly loose leash, and had fun doing it!!! (The clicker thing is awesome!)

After Daniel left, Mom and I walked around Downtown, and I didn't pull much at all, she even convinced me to walk over a couple of grates; once realizing what they were I would hop over them. HA.

Then we went home. Played, ate dinner, and played some more once it got cool. I hate having to wait so long to outside, but mom says its good for us. whatever.

It was really dark when mom put, Me, Bubbles and Texas into the car, I was very confused, because we don't go out when its night time much; apparently Mom had to go get some food for her siblings, so she took us along. She and I marched into Wal-Mart, (me NOT pulling of course), got our stuff, I down/waited while she checked out, and we left!!!

I am soo good.

Anyways its waay past my bedtime, so I'm signing off here!

P.S. (Mom has not called me Buddy almost the entire time she's had me! But its ok, I respond to either name to make it easier on her :)

Guess Who??

My three-dog household, has once again been pushed back up to four, with the welcome "re" edition of Ben....now known as Buddy.

Buddy needed some extra loose leash work, so I'll have him (until further notice...remember the whole write it in pencil thing? yeah.) probably until September. Daniel will move onto another trainer and learn skills that he will need when working with his autistic child.

Ben..er..Buddy is ONE of my favs, so we're happy to see him again. Today we dropped into Target to see what we had to work on, and he did beautifully; you really wouldn't know that he hadn't been training for this all of his life.

{Shopping is boooring in his opinion}

I do wish I could keep Daniel as well, as these two are more of the same energy level, and makes them easy to manage together. Ah well, he'll move on Monday afternoon.

And we'll be back down to three dogs.....for a little while at least. I am going to need a bigger house I think!

P.S. (Ben's name was changed because he happens to share it with his new little ...well buddy! :)