guide dogs for the blind

tana / future vision, washington / guide dog puppy #1 - 12 month old Galette

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Galette graduated as a working guide on 10/21/17. She was 16 months old. She is now living in Massachusetts with her partner, Amanda. Amanda has had another dog, Nacho, and just retired him. Nacho is 8 years old and living the pet life with her and her husband. She loves them both so much and I can tell Galette loves her new mom. We will be visiting Galette in Massachusetts in March! Amanda is so nice and we have become great friends with her. This isn't the end for Galette! I still get lots of updates on her and her adventures

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Well there won't be any Galette puppies in our future. There was a heart condition among her family or littermates (NOT exactly sure who) but Galette has been spayed because of it. She is in T to recover and will hopefully be on a training string in the next few weeks

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Well Galette is all grown up! She is now IFT in Oregon doing breeder evals. She left last Sunday, so almost 2 weeks now! She left at 12 months. I'm very proud! It was a hard day sending her on the truck but I'm glad that she is having fun down in oregon. Meanwhile I am puppysitting. I took my leaders new puppy, Plum, home from the truck. I currently have Caribou, a FGLD from Yelm

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Galette and I went to our first grad, 2 puppies in our club became guides. She did really well and has transitioned to flat collar gentle leader 50/50. She is coming along well and will hopefully be recalled August 5th at 14 months but possibly July at 13 months if they need a dog to go in. Hopefully it'll be August so she can go to both fun days but we'll see. She is especially well behaved after her heat. It's been a crazy year and I'm so glad I got to raise her. She taught me so much and I can't wait for puppy #2 at OR fun day

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We went to the tulip festival for Easter and Galette hasn't skipped a beat. She still remembers all of her commands and has been acting like a true professional. I'll defiantly treasure these last few months with her

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Look who's home!!

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Galette is coming back next Saturday on the truck. So no drive to Oregon, yay! They think she may be having a split season though. We will see. Meanwhile I am puppysitting Beijing!

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Galette came into heat march 24th (i think) and i should be picking her up in a couple more weeks. I've really missed her but I know she's having fun in Oregon!

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While galette has been in heat I've been puppysitting some adorable pups!

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Manchego is definitely a handful but he is very playful!

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She did great in Bellevue!

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Emma's new puppy, Manchego! He is half siblings with Galette through York. Emma is starting him, he will be transferred in our club later one when a raiser becomes available. She mostly wants to do starters from now on

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Oksana has been bred with black lab Dapper! We are expecting 2 Oksana puppies in our club in June. I will be starting one of her puppies for my leader Jana while she takes Galette for a couple months. Then I'll be receiving puppy #3 at Oregon Fun Day! That is also most likely when Galette will be recalled

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Lately Galette has decided it's fun to pull sometimes. In this video she has such a nice loose leash and is also on flat collar around people which can be hard for her! She's also wearing shoes because she's an overachiever and I've been practicing her working in shoes.

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So, apparently Primrose had 2 dates last week, Sunday and Wednesday, and they’ve decided to breed her with a fairly mellow, large yellow lab named Phoenix. On her first date she was “wiggly” and “uncooperative,” so for her second date they decided to just inseminate her. Puppies now due in early April, assuming it takes, but I think it will take a couple more weeks before they can ultrasound to confirm pregnancy.

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I thought they always inseminated? I didn’t know they do actual “dates.” I always assumed “date” meant “date with the inseminator” haha

[fundaypuppy2k15]

Huh! My experience has been the opposite. All of Sarita’s litters were “au naturale,” as it were. :) I assumed insemination was only for failed dates. Interesting! What a great reminder that there is always more to learn! :)

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I've asked before. They prefer natural breeding because there's a higher chance of it working but they'll use insemination if there's a problem or if it's a breeder from another organization (like the dogs sperm if that makes sense) not when they're donated. But they prefer natural breeding

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On Saturday we went to the Training Paws Carnival! It was lots of fun. There were several different stations including: A teeter totter ramp thing for the pups to confidently walk across A recall line A "toy" distraction area with kids toys littered about that they had to ignore A noise station with funny sounds Paw pads (lots of them!) A photobooth A "fishing" pond A surface walk To name a few! We also won some prizes! It was a lot of fun and I talked to Guide Pups of Seattle's leader and learned that Goliath (galettes brother) is doing really well. My friend who will soon be raising (yay!!) handled galette a majority of the time. She did really well confidence wise but it was a lot for her to be around so many dogs. She was fine and listened to commands but she pulled a bit more than I would have liked. Other than that she did awesome

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We've had tons of snow! I live in a higher elevation so there's always snow at my house in the winter but at my school and my moms there isn't ever any snow. We've had the most snow fall ever recorded here with about 15 inches in enumclaw! That meant 2 1/2 days of no school and guide dogs made of snow!