Update

Soooo....I GOT A LAPTOP! Woohoo! I love it. That's what I'm typing on right now. It's an Intel Satellite. SO nice, and I got it for five hundred bucks from Office Depot.

Anyway, here's random pictures from the park a few days ago.







Friday Blitz got left at home while I went to a dress rehearsal for Mock Trial! I am SOO nervous, because the competition is on MONDAY!!! As in, tomorrow!!! The girls on the team are meeting at one of the coaches houses at noon to do hair and makeup, (Not theatrical makeup...That's not allowed. And I don't wear makeup...) and then we're meeting with the rest of the team (Most of the team are guys. We have eleven guys and five girls.) for pizza at 2:30, and then we're meeting at the courthouse at 4:00. The actual competition starts at 5:30. It usually lasts three to four hours...Then we go out to a late dinner (haha, with everything after the actual competition we'll probably go out at around midnight.) then we repeat the process on tuesday. And hopefully thursday. (Finals) Then on friday we're going up to the snow all day for skiing. I really wish I could bring Blitz, but because I'll be skiing there's no way! So, Blitz is going in to the kennels tomorrow morning, and I'll get him back sometime on saturday. (If we don't make it to the finals though, I'll pick him up on wednesday. We should know by then.)

Yesterday, (Saturday) my little brother had a doctor themed birthday. (Ya...strange theme for a six year old. He's an aspiring doctor, and has been since he was about four.) We had a first aid course, (Hard to do in five and six year olds terms.) dissection of various animals, (Starfish, Fish, Frogs, Grasshoppers etc..) microscopic viewing, and of course, cake and ice cream. (BEFORE the dissection, thank goodness.) My dad was going to take his stitches out (That he had to get last week) but decided it was too soon. Blitz was the primary patient for the kids. He's an experienced patient...I let Morgan (the six year old.) and Matthew (the three year old) play doctor on him all the time, and he absolutely LOVES it and actually seeks it out. The vet is always really impressed at how still he holds for examinations.

Here's pictures!!

Pre-party-picture



Matthew playing with Blitz.





Had to add these two!

Listening to the first aid course...



Matthew holding Benjamen, the baby!

Looks like I'll have a CCI pup in the near future...

I like CCI. I sent in the filled out application. I told them I'll be ready in september. Blitz will either be going in-for-training August (Unlikely...He'll be seventeen months then. Unless they have a shortage on dogs, I don't think so. On the other hand, though, there IS a big gap before the A litter...Maybe they will have a shortage.) or November 1st. I'm waiting for the phone interview with CCI. I'm going to see how it goes and play it by ear, and let God make the final decision.

Great news!

Just wanted to tell y'all that I'm going to be able to go to Disneyland pretty much the day I turn a year old! My mom's cousin is coming down, and to celebrate we're taking her to Disneyland...She comes down a few days BEFORE my birthday, and leaves a few days AFTER my birthday...So real close! GDA has a rule that we can't bring puppies to theme parks until they're a year old, but I'm guessing if it's a few days before it doesn't matter...I'm not going to be a completely different dog a few days before my birthday! I can't wait! Mom says it's a blast, and that I can even go on quite a few rides. (Like the Pirates of the Caribbean, Pinnochio and all those smaller rides.) Anyway, just wanted to tell y'all! That's in about a month!

Also, I (Kasey) requested an application from CCI. I just want to look over it, see what requirements they have and such, then if I do decide to raise for them, I'll fill it out and send it in. If they tell me they have a puppy ready before Blitz goes in, I'll just tell them no, and wait for the next one.

Photos!

Haha, sorry! I was so busy with my last post that I forgot to post pictures.

Anyway, Kenny came on Friday, from nine to five! He's a real sweetheart, (Reminds me SO much of Blitz at that age!) but I did see quite the stubborn streak while out to eat. I told him to lay down, but for whatever reason he simply did not want to. He did everything BUT lay down, though I know that he knew what I wanted, and just was being stubborn. But other than that one instant, he was a real sweetie. I also had Maui for the day, a female black lab. She spent the night, and she has quite the voice when you put her in her crate. She recently had surgery, (Let's just say that her spaying went awfully, and she had to have several surgeries to fix it.) and so I couldn't have both her and the other dog out at the same time, so she spent about half the time here in her crate. And she definately didn't like it, haha. But she was fine other than that.

I got Blitz back at five, and at about five forty-five I left to meet some other puppy raisers at Kohls to go to the City Walk in Hollywood. We had a blast, staying there about three hours. We walked around, asking for donations for the Silent Auction, (Kudos to Rachel, who was the only one of us four that was good enough and brave enough to do the talking!) and a few seemed only slightly interested and SAID they would pass the info onto the powers that be, but we can only wonder if they ever will. Others though, such as Bubba Gump Shrimp, were VERY interested and we're sure that the people in charge will at least get the info. While we were waiting for the manager to make copies of the letter and flyer, we took a group picture of the puppies. That is a very difficult thing to do...Take a picture of four puppies all under the age of eleven months in a very busy place. We drew quite a crowd, and several random people were taking pictures of us. Afterwards, one of the waiters (??) took our picture (Yes, people included!) and said he was going to try and put it on their website. Hmm, so I guess we'll be watching it! Here is the outcome of that ten minutes of getting all the dogs to stay, AND look at the camera. (Not that they did, anyway...)





PLEASE make it stop!!



I thought this was SO cute. Blitz and Camry



Okay, does this NOT look like Blitz? This is Kenny...



And this is Blitz, at about the same age.



We think they may be half-brothers or something? Maybe quarter?

11 Months and Decisions

Hey guys! My Mr. Man will be a year old in just a month! I can't believe it! It seems like yesterday that I picked him up.

Hey, I need some help with a big decision. First off, I need to tell you that we recently found out that Morgan, my little brother, is allergic to dogs, and it's affecting his vision. We don't need to do anything drastic on that part...Just be alot more careful about dog hair with Blitz, and hopefully raise a doodle next time. But what I'm trying to decide right now, is if I should raise for CCI or not. Don't get me wrong...I absolutely LOVE GDA. But CCI is geared more towards what I want to get into. I might even want to have a career at CCI. Ever since I started puppy raising, I've known that I want to do SOMETHING with service dogs, but recently I've realized that I love working with children (Particularly special needs children) just as much. CCI isn't ALL children, but I think I would also enjoy that mixture of people. Anyway, if I raise for CCI I won't be able to get a doodle, (At least, I don't think. I haven't seen anything that mentions the use of doodles) and therefore would have the work cut out for me when it comes to hair and keeping the dog out of Morgans room and Morgan out of my room, but I would also be getting in on the "inner-ring," as Lewis would say, and I would have a better chance of getting a job there when it's time. If I do raise for them, I would try to get a job as an Instructors Assistant (http://cci.org/national/jobads/IA_program_details.html) when I'm old enough, and then try to become an Apprentice Instructor. I would just have alot easier of a time getting in as a puppy raiser for them than some random stranger no one's ever heard of. I might still be able to attend GDA puppy meetings, and I would definately still go to graduations and the annual open house, and try to go to some fund-raisers, but I would still miss it. I was looking at CCI, and the closest chapter they have is in LA, so I probably wouldn't be able to get very socially involved there, but I would still have GDA.

Anyway, PLEASE comment and let me know. If I decide to, I'll probably apply sometime in the next three months...Which goes to show just how short a time I have left with Blitz! So sad!

Ooh, I realize it's been a while since I've updated...Whoops! Nothing big has happened lately. But I guess one sort of accomplishment has! I took Blitz to Mock Trial yesterday, and he didn't whine! WOOHOO! He absolutely HATES Mock Trial, and while all my other classes get to hear his sleep snoring (Opposed to his awake snoring...) my fellow Mock Trial-ers get to hear him whine. But, he didn't this time! Instead, he took his frustrations out on his poor toy. Alas, it is no longer with us.

But really...I am falling head over heels for this guy. I love him! He's pretty much perfect! At home you'd think he's a senior the way he sleeps all day, but when out and about he's not at ALL lazy, but like, "Okay, what's next mom??" When he was younger, he was ALWAYS lazy and I was afraid he would be dropped because of it. But now he's got the perfect mix! He LOVES going out and being active, but he also LOVES staying home and sleeping. They say that a hyper dog would do well as a college students guide. Blitz most definately isn't hyper, but I think he would go great with a busy college student, as long as he would get to sleep at night! I'll leave that decision up to the trainers at GDA, though!

Tomorrow I'm puppy swapping...But also going on a teen-puppy raiser thing in Hollywood. The puppy I'm getting is only six months old, and I don't know him too well, so I'm not sure how he'd react to busy Hollywood. I think I'll ask the raisers if we could swap some other time, but if they think he's confident enough, I'll think about taking him. Big GDA events usually have the age "Six Months or Older" so he could be okay. Anyway, let you know what I decide, and I'll take lots of pictures!

MAJOR growth spurt!!

I went to the vet yesterday, and as usual Blitz was weighed. The tech who weighed him told us he was 69.8 pounds...I figured that couldn't be right, because the last time he was weighed he was 61.3, and that was less than a month ago! They asked me all the usual questions when a dog gains that much weight...Have you increased his food, given him treats, anything? The answer is no...In fact, he's been on a diet. (The vet told me to.) His waist looks tons better, so he DID take off the fat. They weighed him twice more on that scale, with the same outcome. They figured it might have something to do with the scale, so they took him to the other scale...Same thing!! Guess my guy is just getting way bigger! The vet did mention he looked taller...(I wouldn't notice since I'm with him all the time.)

But yes, he has gone through a spurt. His choke chain, which was a month ago the perfect size, (About three inches coming off of his neck when it was tightened, but still a bit loose) is now about an inch smaller. Looks like it's time for a new choke chain. Also, his jacket now barely reaches halfway across his chest. He doesn't LOOK all that big...But when you get to the technicalities, he's HUGE!