Jan 17
Sir, what the fuck
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Sir, what the fuck
her audition tape for John Carpenter's The Thing
Why holding Edi back from poppycorm bowl...
Took the boy on a very short training outing to the pharmacy and he did well 🥰 I’m hoping teenage phase is over soon, please gods!
(Video of a tricolour rough collie walking next to his handler, sitting when they stop, continues to walk, then stopping and gets happy when they see his dad walk towards them and he does a little play prance.)
November studies
i witnessed a murder
If Ollie had started as a program dog, he would have been retired early on, or maybe placed as an in-home service dog only. If his breeder had given him to anyone with less free time, less patience, fewer resources, and higher needs or expectations, Ollie would never have become a service dog at all.
Fortunately for me, my needs aren't that high. While I will retain my PTSD diagnosis for life, it is so well managed that I am mostly asymptomatic these days. The process of training Ollie for PA served as exposure therapy for my agoraphobia, and that diagnosis has been removed completely. And, while I have developed some mobility issues over the last couple of years, I am still fully ambulatory and expect to stay that way, at least for now.
Ollie's career with me will be easy. He'll be mostly in-home, helping me with chores. He'll accompany me on errands one or two days each week, maybe 2-3 hours at a time. He'll attend doctors appointments with me, but stay home for longer procedures. I have no expectations of him being the kind of dog that attends college classes or an on-location job full time, or flies on planes, or goes to Disney. Ollie's my part-time low-key assistant, and that works really well for both of us.
Here's Ollie at his work outing for the week, dinner at a country club, where he napped for the full duration of the meal, even when our server stood almost on top of him. Best boy.
Mimic's face graying journey from 8 weeks to (almost) 2 years