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Likes: I like long walks on the beach (and off!), training and playing with my best friends Saki and Snowy!
Pet-Peeves: Other doggies running over to me and barking at me when I didn't do anything to them... especially when I am behaving myself on leash and they are illegally off leash!
Favorite Toy: A blue fishy that has three small blue balls with squeakers hidden inside! I love to pull the smaller toys out and sqeak on them!
Favorite Food: Ham and hotdogs and cheese and pepperoni and baby food and, and, and... yum I love training! I also like raw chicken a whole lot! I used to eat Innova Evo which I think is the best kibble on the market, but now I'm a raw fed girl!
Favorite Walk: Wildcat canyon, the Bay Trail
Best Tricks: I bring my mom her medicine twice a day, I like to spin, lay down and catch treats, I recognize mood swings in my mommy and help her not get too depressed or manic or panicky, and I can do lots more!
Arrival Story: I had to live in the Orange County (North Carolina) APS animal shelter twice! The first time I came in, I was a stray. I was adopted by a woman who worked two jobs. She left me in a crate for 8 hours a day during her first job, then came home and let me have run of the house for four hours during her second job. I was very bored and also worried about being forgotten so I developed some bad habits and separation anxiety. We got kicked out of our house because of me. She took me back to the shelter after I got into some paint. I thought no one would pick me when I went back to the shelter, but there was this nice lady who came around every afternoon at the shelter and would take me for walks. She even held me while my picture was being taken to go on the APS website (you can see this picture to the left). I was very nice when she came around, and I made her fall in love with me. Every time she tried to walk me I just sat down and leaned up against her asking to be pet. The next thing I knew, she brought this man to see me. The nice lady, who became my mommy, kept talking with the man, who is my daddy, about bringing me home. They couldn't decide, so I suggested they take me for a walk. I behaved very well on the walk and kept trying to cuddle with them. My charms worked, and they took me home the next day!
Bio: When my parents brought me home, I had really bad separation anxiety. I chewed up a LOT of stuff! I was so worried they wouldn't come back that I couldn't help myself... I ate textbooks and movies and their wedding album and orchids... Once I got some raw sweet potatoes that my mommy had thought were high out of my reach and I ate three or four of them. My poop was very orange for a few days! Anyway, my mommy and daddy helped me calm down by leaving for only a second and coming right back, then leaving for a minute, then for five minutes and so on. After about six months or so I wasn't chewing things up anymore. Around that time my mommy realized that I noticed and alerted her when she was getting depressed or manic or having a panic attack (my mommy is bipolar type II and has a panic disorder) and that I was trying to either cheer her up or calm her down depending on the situation. She encouraged that behavior and also taught me to bring her the medicine case twice a day when I get my breakfast and dinner. Sometimes I'm sneaky and try to bring her the case an hour early, but she just tells me to put it back and wait until my real dinner time. I guess there's no fooling her! When she starts getting anxious I lay my head on her knee and petting me helps calm her down before she gets out of control. I do lots of other things, too, like tell mom when it's time to get on or off the BART train and I can even lead mom home from the station. On August 11th, 2006 I passed my public access test with a score of 100% to become a certified service dog. I've been working full time for a while, and while it's fun to have a job, it's also a lot of work! My knee started to hurt last winter, so I officially retired on November 6th, 2008. We recently added Ollivander to our family, and he is training to replace me-- well, no pup will ever really replace me. He'll just be going to work and stuff with mom. I'm enjoying my life of retirement, and sleeping all day means I have more energy to play with Ollie and go on walks and play tug with mom and dad.
Forums Motto: To break injustice we must break silence Dogster Local Spots I've Marked: Creature Comfort Holistic Veterinary Center, Wildcat Canyon Regional Park, Gregoire, Finesse Dog Training Nancy Frensley, Farmer's Kitchen Cafe, Dr. Karen Rettig, Alternatives for Animals The Groups I'm In: Advocates for Positive Training, Bay Area Dogs, Dogstar Assistance Dogs & Friends, Holistixperience!, Service Dogs Group
The Last Forum I Posted In: arthritis and raw diet
Links!: youtube videos of me, flyer about me and other service dogs
Today mom and dad had a yard sale. Since mom needed to work on Ollie's training with strangers coming into the driveway, I had to stay behind at the house instead of coming down the driveway with mom and dad. I laid around in the house or in the yard, feeling extremely neglected. I got lots of treats and mom and dad came down the driveway often-- and I could see and hear them from the yard-- but still I deserve to be front and center of everything!
Then mom and dad took Ollie to training class, so now that they are home I am commandeering mom's lap. She's not going anywhere!
Last night daddy took me to rally and I was a STAR! I wore my crystal collar from Parker's Pets, and everyone was fawning over me (as they should be!). I was a very good girl during class, and ignored all the doggies walking by. I did a great job doing the rally course, and made everyone laugh with how excited I was when it was time to do a fast paced sign! Mom says she needs to get some pictures of me working with dad, and I agree! Hopefully she'll get some next week!
Yup, that's me, Sabrina the rally star! Last night we had a rally drop-in class. Our trainer is super awesome and has a free rally drop-in for the regulars for the next few weeks. This means I got to go, too! Normally I don't get to go because mom and dad can't afford to pay for 2 doggie classes at the same time.
Daddy handled me, which was very new because daddy's never actually done rally before! I forgot how to do fronts and kept sitting right next to daddy! Oops! Other than that I had a great time trotting around the course with him, back to my usual Rally diva-ness! During my second run of the course, mom started to cry. She really misses working me, and loves to see me happy and trotting along, doing my characteristic crooked sits, and moving my bum around for left turns like a star. I got a little distracted by mom crying and I wanted to go help her... it is hard sometimes remembering that I'm not the primary one to help her with these things anymore. It made both of us sad. But I was happy to do the course with daddy and get out there and strut my rally stuff!
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