Training Day 2

I'm getting to this late and I am very tired. So tonight I will only post pictures. Today the class focus was on staying in a position for an extended period of time and child bonding. Zeppelin missed Elisabeth's low blood sugar tonight so I will be asking the trainer about it in the morning. 

Bonding with Lil' Eddie 

 Bonding with both kids 

Day One: Meet and Greet, Basic Commands

At around 9:45am we showed up at 4 Paws for Ability and where soon staring into Zeppelin's crate. 

We all picked a spot and sat in the main training area as the dogs where brought out to their families one by one... 

All the kids where handed treat bags to give to their dogs as they where introduced. 

Zeppelin was showered in treats as he meet his news kids. 

"Why is this dog sitting on me"!

The kids gave Zeppelin a new nyla bone as a gift

He loves his new toy

Eddie was a little unsure about him, but toward the end of class he would laugh every time Zeppelin would come up to him. 

After the meet and greet we went off on a one hour lunch. Soon after we returned we started working on basic commands, sit and down. We also worked on having our dogs stay in that position for an extended amount of time. 

I will be the main handler, but Ed needs to work on these commands too.. here is Zeppelin pawing him for another treat. "I sat down for you, will you give me another"?

We are leaving for Ohio in the morning! Daily in depth training updates will be posted here! We meet Zeppelin on the 18th! 

INTRODUCING ZEPPELIN! 

HEY!!! Zeppelin here! 

Yep like the MAN, Led Zepplin! In case you can’t figure it out I am from the Rockstar litter because we ROCK N ROLL but mostly we just ROCK as in the BEST. Okay so we are Golden Retrievers and I was born here at 4 Paws to my Mom, Lyric and Dad, Vic. I was born 9-27-2011 WHOO WHOOT My birthday is coming and you will be here. I got two presents for my birthday, yep! YOU!! But even still you can bring me some other presents too, you will won’t you? Huh? Pretty Please??? I like Kong toys and Nylabones, and tennis balls, and Puperoni. So when you get here we can play and hang out and have so much fun together like smelling the grass, peeing on fire hydrants (shhhh don’t tell service dogs are not supposed to do that in uniform so we have to play that game when my vest is not on) Do you like to do those things? When the other dogs in class see us they will be sooooo jealous cuz they all only got one kid and I got two!! And I will just strut and around and look proud cuz who wouldn’t be with partners like you? Yoda Man told me to watch out because one of you is a Jedi? Is that true? Do you have one of them Jedi beam things like Yoda Man has? That’s pretty cool. Well Jedi or not you are all mine and I am waiting here for you to come and take me home! 

See ya soon xoxoxoxo  Zepplin

ZEPPLIN

Golden Retriever
Parents: Lyric x Vic 
Rockstar Litter
Partner: Eddie and Elisabeth

We meet Zeppelin on Sep 18, 2012.

 After a 2 week training class at 4 Paws for Ability he will be coming home with us. LOVE his rockstar name! 

Less than one month left! 

I made this video for our class. 

Every class "begs" for their dog matches  before we go to Ohio. We should be finding out one week or so before our class date. 

Stay Tuned! 

A little under 4 weeks left and we will be heading to Ohio! In about 3 weeks we will be getting a picture and letter from our service dog! More to come!

In about 2 months from today we will be finding out what the name and breed of Eddie and Elisabeth's service dog! 

When we first started this journey it felt like it was going to take a long time to get it accomplished. We started fundraising in June of 2011 and by December 2011 we finished! In January 2012 we found out our class date in Ohio and the months are passing by fast! We are almost done!