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Life in that of a Guide Dog Puppy

No more Guide Dog!!

Hey guys, this is Kasey, Jaylie's puppy raiser. We just got a call from the vet, that Jaylie's left eye is NOT going to get better, and that she will have to be dropped from the program! That means that she will no longer be able to go everywhere, and she will be a pet. My parents will not allow me to both have another puppy to raise, AND keep Jaylie, so, sadly, Jaylie will have to go into the adoption program through GDA. I'm sure that she will bless someone with her sweet temperment, but I will miss her. I will be able to go and visit her whenever though, and I will still keep up on this page...but, she is a carreer changed dog now. I will be getting a new pup on May fourth. A yellow lab, named Blitz.

I will miss Jaylie TERRIBLY....Terribly terribly terribly. Man, I am going to miss her so much...I will be able to visit...Maybe we will set up play dates for Blitz and Jaylie to play together!

Just an update...

Wow, I haven't been on here in a long time, so I thought I'd just update y'all.

Let's see...Not much has happened lately. I went to Camp GDA, to get skull x-rays, and get my eye looked at. We haven't gotten the results back yet, but boy was I tired when I got home. Then, everything else was normal...I went with my mom to classes, to the store, on fieldtrips, things like that...nothing really out of the ordinary. Oh! But I DID graduate from my puppy class! My mommy says that I was great in that class. (Of course I did great! I'm the smartest dog on earth? Why wouldn't I do great??) We played lots of fun games in that class. On the last day, we played two games. We played Girls against the Boys. (But Jensen, my brother, had to be on both teams, since there weren't enough girls) The first game was kinda strange. All I had to do was heel next to my mom, (How easy is that?!?) while she took a cup of water and carried it across the parking lot, and then we heeled back and gave the cup of water to another teammate. Us girls lost, since we weren't doing it for speed, but for accuracy. (We used that as the excuse for losing) The next game was more fun. It was Tic-tac-toe!! We had a BIG playing board, and then instead of X's and O's, we had sit's and downs. And if any of the other pups broke their down/stay or sit/stay, (I never did, since I'm so smart.) than they would have to leave. If we didn't get three in a row, than the first team that had all of their pups on the playing field won. We won three times out of four!!! (Girls rule!!)

Momma says that she signed me up for the more advanced class. She says that they're not all at the GDA campus! She says that some of them will be at malls and grocery stores or something. I think that'll be fun! I bet we'll have alot of people looking at us, since it'll be like fifteen well behaved puppies at a mall!! Lol, I can't wait!!

Oops!! Momma's coming! I can't let her see that I'm smart enough to read and write, or else I'll end up in the circus or something!! Goodbye!!

Camp GDA!!

Hi all. Jaylie is away at Camp GDA, (hey, I rhymed!) so I am able to sneak onto her account and type away. Anyway, I went to GDA to drop off Jaylie. She was SOO happy! She can always tell where we are, because right before we get off of the freeway there's a tunnel we go through. After the tunnel there's about ten more minutes of driving, and the whole time, she's sitting up trying to get glimpses of the outside world. And when we pull into the parking lot, I have to remind her to "wait" before she jumps out. On our way down to the kennels, we ran into one of her friends, Wissel. Wissel was in heat, so she was boarding there, and her puppy raiser came to visit with her and take her for a walk around campus. We talked to her for a while, and I told Jaylie to "get busy," than we made our way down to the kennels. When we opened the door, Jaylie was already so excited I had to put the training collar underneath her chin, and then there was a Golden Retriever RIGHT through the door. Jaylie was hard to control. She does good when we're just sitting and talking to someone with a dog, but when a dog surprises her, she gets too caught up in the moment to pay any mind to me. We are working MAJORLY on dog control. Anyway, when I dropped her off, we went through the usual stuff, taking off her training collar, writing down all her info, and then handing her to a kennel staff. I think she was even more excited with the new person than she was with the dogs! As she was jumping all over the person, (a DEFINATE no-no) I said, "Goodbye Jaylie!" and she immediately stopped jumping and just stared at me like, "I want to stay here, it's a great place, but can't you be here too?" But then she was taken in the back, met her new roommate, and is probably playing with all getout right now. Every time I bring her back, she is, excuse the phrase, DOG tired. We have a puppy class the night I get her back, so she will most likely be a good girl there!!!

Anyway, Jaylie might see this post when she gets back from camp...Sorry Jaylie!!

Jaylie's puppy raiser, who will remain nameless!!