Archive for April, 2010

April 17, 2010 BLIND WOMAN’S GUIDE DOG ATTACKED: CITY OF OTTAWA RESPONSE LACKS TEETH By Helen McFadyen (Halifax) Erie is a well-mannered yellow Lab and a superbly trained guide dog. You’d think she’d have enough to watch out for in her job as Christine Duport’s eyes. But Erie has been attacked four times in the [...]

It has never ceased to amaze me how time flies by; one minute its spring, next minute its summer, you get the point. Yesterday would’ve been Luther’s 11th birthday, and the day before that marked the 4th month anniversary of his death. Some days when I think of him it feels like he is a [...]

Well it turned out to be a case of Lars forgetting that airplanes were fun to go on, because on our return flight over the weekend, he was much better. Aside from a little restlessness at the end of the flight, he did great, which made me feel a lot less guilty for putting him [...]

So its our third last day in Florida and Lars will get to have his first actual run with us this morning. We have done the majority of our running in the afternoon, and because of this Lars has been sidelined due to the heat. We sometimes bring him on cooldowns with us but he [...]