Loken

I had a playdate with Loken, a skilled companion who graduated in May with a special boy. Best friend ever.

Loken's a mellow gentle guy. He likes to lie in the sun. Loken played chase with me for a while and fetch. Best games ever. Then he figured out a way to play chase that suited us both. He held the ball in his mouth and turned around slowly. He's a lot bigger than me, so I got to run around him and he could move slow just as he likes. My human didn't get a photo of that, she was laughing too much. She got a photo of the big guy standing around. He got up when she tried to snap a photo of him snoozing.

Hot dog

The weather has finally cooled off enough that I can type. And my human has finally figured out to get photos from her camera, so you will see a lot more posts from me. I mean what good is a blog without photos.

Can you tell how hot it's been? And this was the last hot day when the heat wave was cooling off. My human and her puppies call me "hot dog" and laugh. I have no idea why this is funny, but if it makes them laugh, okay.

The tippy seat

My human, well my human she's not so good at seeing things and sometimes that gets me in kind of a pickle. Some of my guide dog buddies say their humans have trouble seeing. It's not that. It's like she sees thing differently. Tonight she had my big old crate in the mini van. Love my crate and try to go in, except the crate door was closed. And the crate wasn't level on the floor. So I try to go on the seat next to the crate. My human tells me to go on the floor next to the crate. Now a normal dog would go sit on the seat cos that crate's looking mighty tippy. But my human, well she's the boss. So I give her a look that says "Okay boss" and lie down on the floor in front of the crate.

Then we drive along with my human's husband. He stops suddenly and the crate tips up up up and looks close to crashing down on me. I don't move, because my human told me not to. And I'm waiting for it, waiting for it. Suddenly she tells me a bunch of words and not one of them is JUMP. My human sometimes forgets the right words when she's really flustered. Anyway I know what she means, because I jump up onto the seat. My human tells me "Good girl!" several times. She's so very happy and relieved. And that's why I do what she says, even when I know she's wrong, because I get praised for doing the wrong thing and eventually she gets it and I get the big praise at the end.