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A day in the life of a Service Dog

May 22, 2009

On May 22, my mom had a birthday party for me for my 2nd birthday! I had 2 of my doggie friends over, Powder and Butch. I got to play "bobbing for hot dogs", i got 3 hot dogs to eat! yummy! then i got to enjoy some hot dog flavored water. lol My mom made a nice cake for me that was shaped into a bone and it even had little paw prints made from icing! i got to have a piece but my mom would only give me a tiny piece, geez mom i could barely taste it! i would've MUCH rather eat the whole cake straight from the pan! Then she was torturing me by having me sitstay right in front of my cake without touching it just so she could take pictures. Then my mom's cat, Fluffy, decided to come crash the party and get on the table and start eating a piece of MY cake! How dare she touch MY cake!! Then all us dogs each got a Frosty Paws ice cream! I got to open up my pawresents all by myself (well, ok my mom helped a LITTLE), i got a bunch of chew bones, rawhide and tennis balls! I will be posting some pics from my party soon, and i also have a video but i couldn't get it uploaded so i had my mom contact the dogster people about it for me.

Playing and swimming

My mom has been taking me different places to play and swim. First she took me to the boat landing, she bought me a chuck it and i was playing with that there, she doesn't want me to go in the river there because of the current so i can just run around in the field, but i decided that was much to boring for a golden retriever like myself so when my mom threw the chuck it, i tricked her into thinking i was going after the ball but instead ran right past the ball and went to dive in the water! hehehe but i realized after that i guess that wasn't such a good idea because when i got back, she put me on time out. but mom...! so after that i decided i shouldn't try to pull that stunt again. My mom's friend told her about a pond in the field behind her house and told her she could bring me there and i overheard the whole conversation so then was bugging my mom to bring me to swim there. So we went there awhile (yup, i sure know how to get my way!) and i got to swim there and also run in the field there. Since then, we've been going there quite a bit. there's a video in my videobook of me playing there. I like to go in the water and then go to the top of the hill and roll down, sometimes i end up rolling right into the water. The first time i did it, my mom started laughing so i kept doing it even more. I love making my mommy laugh!

May 5, 2009

i'm very behind on my diary entries, it's summer time and i've been having fun, but i'll put up a few entries of my summer time fun!
On May 5, i got to go on my first trail run!! My mom and her friend went trail riding for about 2 miles and me and 2 of my doggie friends, Powder and Butch, all ran along side. I was a very good boy and didn't go out of my mom's sight. I would run up ahead, then turn around to wait for the humans. they were MUCH to slow for me, just taking there dilly dally ol' time! i don't know why they just didn't make the horses gallop, would've been much better for me!