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.

Arboretum

One weekend when I was out of town, Westin got to go out and about with my family.  One place that he got to visit was the Arboretum.  Here are some pictures that my sister gave me:

Disneyland has gone to the dogs!

A while back, I promised a post on my trip to Disneyland with a puppy in tow.  I took Savannah, a (then) 15 month old female black labbie - she is now older and goes IFT next month!  

It all started with begging and pleading (by me) for a trip to Disneyland - I hadn't been for about a year and was desperate to go with a puppy in training.  My mom finally agreed and we called up Savannah's puppy raisers to ask for a one-night trade.

Come Saturday, we swapped pups at about 10am and then headed for Disney!  Savannah got to go on several rides including Pirates of the Caribbean, The Haunted Mansion, The Train, The Jungle Cruise, It's A Small World, and a few more that I'm not thinking of.  She was swapped on Splash Mountain and Indiana Jones.  

Although we didn't meet any other puppies in training or working dogs, we came across a few puppy raisers!  We met one family who is waiting for their first GDA puppy (we have talked to them at a few Sylmar meetings) and another man who used to raise for GDB! The GDB former raiser mentioned something hilarious.  He said that everyone used to tell him (we have all heard this), "I love dogs too much, I could NEVER give it up" and  he sometimes used to reply "Well, I really don't like dogs, so it's easy!"  Of course, he was kidding, but it was a funny comment.  

Here are some pictures from the big day:

An extra note:

I am probably going to post either another video or pictures of Mikah because I just uploaded more onto my computer; please don't feel obligated to watch/comment them.  They are open for everyone to view and you are welcome to do so, but I really am posting them for my own personal use. Seriously. Really. 

P.P.S.

SIX DAYS! :)

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.