Send in your pictures!

Do you have wild, funny, unique or just plain CUTE pictures or video clips of your current or past puppies?  Westin and I know that you do! 

{I know that you can beat this silly picture of Mikah. I lack cute photos! That's where you come in!}

Send them to me to be included in a fun video slide-show!  Send in as many pictures as you'd like and tell your blog followers and puppy raising friends! I want to include as many puppies-in-training as possible.

Pictures of fun poses, unique locations, funny props, and silly faces are all great! You can't go wrong with a picture of a puppy!

Pictures/video can be sent to me via e-mail or posted on your own blog (please leave a comment here to let me know that you posted!)

Along with the photos, be sure to include your puppy's name and the service/guide dog school that you are from!

Email - beachysweets@yahoo.com

Please, please, please participate and tell others! 

Thanks everyone :) This should be fun.

GDA Open House

GDA Open House is coming up this Saturday! If you'll be in the area, I hope y'all will come :) It is going to be amazing!

The following has been taken from the GDA website:

"22 Annual GDA Open House
(Sports Day) on June 13th

For more than 60 years Guide Dogs of America has offered blind and visually impaired people independence, confidence, and companionship in the form of a furry best friend- for free.

Once a year, visitors are invited to tour the 7.5 acre GDA facility, see a guide dog demonstration, and observe puppies-in-training as they maneuver through and obstacle course of distractions.

Admission and parking are free!

Puppy Trials: 11:30 - 2pm
Guide Dog Demonstration: 1pm
Silent Auction Closes at 2:30pm
Tours (every 30 min), Raffles, Food, Merchandise
All proceeds go to GDA.

Come early so as not to miss any events and please leave your personal pets at home. Gates open at 10:45am to 4pm. Main events will wind down be around 2:30pm.

GDA is located at: 13445 Glenoaks Blvd Sylmar, CA 91342.
For more information: (818) 362-5834"

It is HOT

The weather here is so warm, too hot for right now! It is 95 outside and all of us humans and canines are burning up!!! I feel bad for Westin because it is so warm.

Make A Memory

Say it with sign!

That's right, eight days left until Westin comes home!  Although I'm not screaming "I WANT MY PUPPY!" every five minutes like I did for two weeks before Mikah came home, next Friday just can't come soon enough.  

Puppy pick up is SO special and I hope I have butterflies in my stomach on that day like I did the first time around.  A few months ago, a woman in my puppy raising group who has raised some eight or nine puppies said that she loved being a first time puppy raiser because of the "sweetness and innocence of it all."  I kind of feel like that innocence was stripped away from me far too early. I am really hoping that I still feel all the excitement and jittery-ness this time .  I think I will once April 17 is closer (like one day away :) )  

Did your second puppy pick up feel different than your first one?

Impatient!

I miss Mikah. A lot. A lot a lot.

And I want Westin. Now.

That is a summary of the super-long post that I almost posted here, but didn't.

It feels so bare going places without a puppy, I could really use a dog to puppy-sit :) But sadly there is no time for puppy-sitting, except for a few days next week when I COULD have a GDA puppy but SOMEONE said no *cough, mom, cough* because we are going on vacation and will already have pet dogs with us.  Don't get me wrong, I love my dog!  But there's something special about bringing a canine pal with you everywhere you go.