Recently we’ve had two friends sew us presents! First my friend Elaine made me a Harry Potter quilt, and then our friend Stephanie sewed us some masks! Brad didn’t feel like being a model, so I modeled all the masks and the quilt! Descriptions are below each picture, and there […]
We’ve been working on the retrieve for about 3.5 weeks, which is a long time for most dogs to learn something… but Hestia isn’t known for her smarts LOL! She’s doing quite well! In today’s check-in, she demonstrates how she is reliably picking up the hankie from the floor! To […]
Last night while I was asleep, Brad made a video using his new colored lights! It could be Hestia’s superhero origin story! Warning: this video has flashing lights. Description of video is below the embedded video. Description of video: From outside the window, you look in and see Hestia looking […]
Today Hestia and I went grocery shopping. We needed to go to Publix to get some things that Lidl doesn’t carry. But we also needed to stock up on meat for Ollie since we now have a freezer in our garage. And Publix charges twice as much for meat as […]
We’ve had a breakthrough on our retrieve training! I’m now rewarding only for Hestia putting her mouth onto the hankie and closing her mouth. In this latest video I summarize the latest progress and do some training. A couple of times she actually takes the hankie from my hand! So […]
The other day I made a gluten and dairy and refined sugar free peanut butter cake with peanut butter frosting! Here is the recipe I used: https://mummymade.it/2019/08/gluten-free-peanut-butter-cake.html The cake turned out OK, though I would recommend if you make it to put it in a 9×13 pan or something larger […]
I’ve been working on the retrieve with Hestia. She got to the point where she was reliably going over to the dropped hankie. However, she was pouncing on the hankie and not getting her face anywhere near it. So yesterday I tried something new. I sat on the ground with […]
This is one of my favorite breads of all time! This is not your typical banana bread that is a dessert bread. This is a yeasted bread (similar to a sandwich bread) that you toast and put some butter on to eat. It is slightly sweet, and sooooooo tasty! I […]
Today we went to the grocery store! We normally go on Fridays, but are gradually switching to Wednesdays because Wednesdays and Thursdays are the least busy days. So this time we went on a Monday. In a little over two weeks when we go again, we’ll go on Wednesday and […]
Today I started teaching the shaped retrieve. A few people on the Psychiatric Service Dog Partners’ free online peer guidance group are teaching this together! I teach a shaped retrieve, which starts out with me dropping something soft and easy to pick up like a cloth hankie. At first, whenever […]
