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Mission: Become a Service Dog

October Pupdate

Hello Everyone!

Something super exciting happened to me this month! Can you guess what it might be? Well, I’ll tell you anyway! I won a very special award! I was chosen by the Friends of Animal Care and Control to be the 2009 PetSmart Pet Hero for Community Service. How special is that?! I won the award for the work that I do down at the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office and in the courts. The Friends of Animal Care and Control thought that it was very honorable that I will be helping so many different people when they have to go to court and testify. That can be very scary for some humans! So my mommy bought a really pretty dress and got her hair, nails, and makeup done really nice...and I got a bath...and we went to a fancy resort where the award ceremony took place. I couldn’t believe how many humans came to the ceremony! And they were all dressed up so pretty! And guess what? There were other doggies and kitties there! They all won special awards, too! After my mommy and I walked around and met lots of people, we sat down and had our dinner, then my mommy walked me across the stage so I could get my medal! The humans up on the stage had a medal for me that was on a cord so I could wear it around my neck and show it off to everybody. I had so much fun that night, and I know my mommy and my human family are all so proud of me.

Something else very exciting happened this month. The teachers at my mommy’s high school, where the puppy class is, put on a puppy birthday party for us pups to celebrate all of our birthdays! There was a birthday cake and presents and everything! It was so fun! Us puppies got a bunch of food and toys as gifts. It was sooo nice of the teachers to do that for us! We were sure to give them lots of puppy kisses as thanks!

And Halloween was at the end of the month! My mommy and her family don’t celebrate Halloween, but we sure did see a lot of strange things that night! My puppy brother and I looked out the windows and saw scary decorations on our neighbors’ houses, and saw creepy looking creatures walking around the streets! My mommy told me that those creepy creatures were really just human children dressed up in costumes, so I wasn’t so scared anymore after that. The doorbell rang a bunch of times throughout the night, and I didn’t know what was going on, but my mommy said that it was the human children. She called them Trick-or-Treaters, and said that they go around to each house, ring the doorbell, and get a bunch of candy! My family didn’t give out any candy, but it sure sounded exciting for those Trick-or-Treaters! I wish I could go around to a bunch of people and get lots of doggie treats! How fun would that be?!

Ok, well, that about wraps it up for this month...I’ll bark a’cha later!!

Sloppy, wet kisses,
Sam

September Pupdate

Hey Everybody!

Good news! My mommy and I started going downtown again this month! My mommy gets out of school early two days a week, so we get to go to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office on those days! Yay! My mommy and I are so happy that we get to continue my training in the courts. Plus I love getting to greet all the attorney’s who love me so much over there! I’m getting really familiar with that place, and I feel right at home when I walk in! My future mommy always has a treat ready for me when I get to her office, but I can’t have it until I do one of my commands...nothing is free, anyway, even for a puppy! Hehehe!

Another really exciting thing that happened this month was that we got tons of presents! A bunch of donations were made to us pups, and we got cool things like a bunch of treats, really cool shampoo, new booties [cause it’s still hot outside!], special fleece lined booties for the winter time [the fleece makes them extra soft and warm for our puppy paws!], supplements to keep our joints healthy, and Furminators. Furminators are special brushes that remove all the extra fur from dogs’ undercoats, and makes our fur look shiny! Those brushes are especially good for when summer starts, so us pups can get rid of our heavier winter coats! Us pups and our human handlers are so thankful for all of the wonderful donations. That was so thoughtful of the companies that sent them!

The football season started up this month, and guess what?! My mommy took me to my very first football game!! How exciting! I didn’t know what to think about it at first. There was really loud music, and lots of people running around and up and down the bleachers, and lots of shouting and cheering! There was the high school band on the other side of the bleachers that kept playing lots of loud songs during the game, and humans on the side of the football field doing silly dances. I think my mommy called those dancing people cheerleaders? But after a little while I got kind of used to all the strange things, and I laid down by my mommy’s feet and enjoyed the game. And guess what? Our team won! Yay! All the football fans on our side of the bleachers were cheering so loud and were all so excited, and I wagged my tail to congratulate our team! But boy was all that excitement exhausting! My mommy and I went home and went straight to bed! I slept really good that night!

In puppy class, my mommy learned about canine CPR this month. Canine CPR is a lot like human CPR. If a dog isn’t breathing, a human has to blow air into the doggie’s lungs, and give the dog compressions [push up and down] on its chest to make the heart beat and pump blood up to the dog’s brain. The human will do this until they can get the dog to a vet, and it can save the dog’s life! Very cool to know how to do canine CPR!

Well, I’ll bark a’cha later everyone!

Sloppy, Wet Kisses,
Sam

Winner!!

Guess what everybody?!

Today I found out that the Friends of Animal Care and Control awarded me as the 2009 Pet Hero! Isn't that awesome?!! I'm going to get a special medal and everything!! I'm so excited! Woof!!!

Many slobbery kisses,
Sam!