On Tuesday we met up with my friend Sabrina, her SDIT (service dog in training) Indy, and her husband Russ! Alice had never met them before, so I was excited to see how she’d do working so closely around an unfamiliar dog. A quick summary is that she did fantastic, […]
On Monday we went to have our van’s oil changed. I brought a camp chair and we sat outside to stay safe. It was absolutely perfect weather to be sitting outside! It was sunny and a little warm, with the perfect amount of breeze and beautiful blue skies. I sat […]
Brad shot an excellent video of me discussing my history of differently sized service dogs! It is captioned on youtube. He also took several pictures of me while we were filming, and I LOVE them! They are really good pictures of me in a green top sitting on a grey […]
Today we met a friend for lunch at Panera, and I tried taking both dogs. It wasn’t an unmitigated disaster, but it also didn’t really work out that well! I had planned to hold Alice and work Hestia while we placed our order. We were planning to sit outside, so […]
On Friday Alice took her SDIT Manners Evaluation! This is a test to determine if she’s ready to be a service dog in training. Our friend Scarlet gave the test (they are often my training assistant for our service dog training meetups), and Skyler with Korra were the distraction dog […]
Today I took Alice to a new store all by herself. It’s been a while since she’s been to a new store alone (without another team), and I wanted to see if she’s really ready for the SDIT label if she passes her Manners Evaluation on Friday. We hung out […]
This morning we did a Walmart pickup, but they were out of a couple of key ingredients for my upcoming recipes. So we had to stop by Publix, too. Hestia did wonderfully in Publix! She was really practically perfect throughout the store. We got to checkout, and I realized halfway […]
Today Alice and I went to Michaels with Scarlet. One last practice before our Manners Evaluation next week! Alice was overall not bad at the store. She walked in through the doors wonderfully. Right inside the doors, we went down an aisle she hadn’t been down before and she did […]
On Friday my service dogs on the town class went to the Museum of York County, which has a bunch of taxidermy from all around the world plus faux taxidermy of some of the ice age animals that lived in our area. This museum has sometimes been great about Hestia, […]
Today I had physical therapy and an appointment with my psych nurse. Brad came with me, and we brought Alice, too! Today was my second to last PT appointment, and Hestia again rocked it. She does so well when I’m doing exercises and moving around. For the last 10 min […]
