Lacey is 4!!!!

Lacey turned 4 and she is so happy about it. She is going to celebrate her birthday with a student's class. They will hold a birthday party for her and they get to see all the amazing things she can do for the young man she works with. I am so proud of how far she has come since I picked her up at 1o months old.

Happy Birthday, Lacey!

I would've posted this sooner but I was at Disneyland and the Internet at the hotel is slow.

Happy Birthday, Yancie!

Yancie is the big 7! She is the only one of her siblings to have graduated as a service dog and I couldn't be prouder of my "psycho puppy". She is from a litter that was bred from Guide Dogs for the Blind in San Rafael. She was the pick of the litter and brought to CCI. One of her sisters went on to be a breeder for GDB.

She is such a love bug and hope she is having the best birthday with Jessie and Gayla. She lives near San Jose and I get to here from her often.

Happy Birthday, Boo Bear! I love you!

Genevieve's Report

Genevieve is in Advanced Training right now and I FINALLY got her progress report! (I asked for it after a while and they found it. :eyeroll:)

She is doing great though! Woo. They say she is highly motivated. (That dog would run into high traffic for a treat.) She has "low response" to "novel stimuli". Really? Once you've lived in my house for a few months and done everything she's done there's nothing that shocks you after a while. LOL. She is still up for a breeder and is in good health. She doesn't like correction but that's normal to me, she's a sensitive dog. She also plays well with others! I don't think any of my dogs have been marked "plays well with other dogs" in the first report. I think it's because I don't let them play with other dogs a lot because I don't have many dogs in the area that I trust. Now that I have Belle though she helps determine polite play for the puppies.

Belle is doing great and Weather is just excited to be alive. I don't think that dogs tail EVER stops wagging. It's odd.

Weather graduated from "Petsmart" last week. I take her there for socialization and she gets to work around other dogs. However, she trains at a totally different level than the other dogs. I think I will enroll Belle in the next course so that Wei-Wei has someone else who trains at her level. One cool thing they do is they give us a little hat to "graduate" with. She's cute right? And, of course, she is the most compliant dog about wearing the hat.

I am also growing plants! I am working on making the backyard more dog friendly. Here's my gnome guarding my little plants.

Wei-Wei and Beana update!

Wei-Wei (aka Weather) is now 5 months old and very excited about that fact. She continues to be a sweet and cuddly puppy who loves to please. She's a little unsure of herself but doing well overall.

Somedays she loves her cow and will spend a lot of time sucking on it, much like her half-brother Pismo.

Other times... her cow is put in time out. She purposefully strode over there, set her cow down, and went back to her bed. I still don't know what the cow did.

Her water bowl is a source of fascination.

Belle is growing into an elegant dog and she still plays very nicely with her stuffies. One day I'll put up the videos of her doing her extra tricks. She has finally mastered opening the fridge and is currently working on pulling open the backdoor. That has become a useful trick with all the work I do back there. And of course the ever useful "fetching the remote".

Belle may not have liked her in the beginning but she likes her much more now.