Well today is November 6, and I am ashamed to admit that I am posting this 4 days late as on November second 2008 Lars became a part of my life.
Posts Tagged ‘guide dog’
Lars continues to impress when it comes to his running, despite the fact that as of late he has not been getting out as much as I’d like.
On Friday Lars and I clambered onboard a Greyhound bus to make the long trek to Hamilton for Thanksgiving. I often wonder what goes through Lars’s little brain when he realizes that we are about to get on a bus, because I know from past experience with him that he is not a huge fan [...]
Now that the sweltering summer temperature is being replaced by crisp fall-like weather, Lars is feasting on the runs he is getting.
Bar is back on track, or on trail I guess I should say as his running has picked up tremendously over the last month or so.
So Bar has kennel cough,, medically known as bordetella. It is an upper respiratory tract infection that is not usually serious but he was coughing quite a bit and I feel so bad for him when he starts one of his coughing fits.
Poor Lars has been living life as a couch potato of sorts for the last few days, forcing me to break out the ‘ol pitty stick. For about the last week the heat of summer has been in the neighbourhood of 35 degrees, making it unbarably hot for me, nevermind the little man.
Well its the middle of June and the weather is heating up for sure, meaning that the Bar does not get to go out as often as I, and or he would like. Some days are hotter than others and on the cooler days I try to get him out as much as possible, and [...]
Well now that the warmer weather is here, my ‘ol buddy Lars is back to running, his favorite pasttime. As with most acquired skills if one goes for a period of time without performing those said skills, they can tend to lose some ability, the same applies to my 4-legged Oregon orio. He has lost [...]
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 [...]