Christmas and New Year Greetings

I hope every one out in Cyberland had a great Christmas! Mine was pretty good considering that Nala had to have surgery. She is doing very well now.No further problems.Shaman is being pretty good lately. I am going to see a movie next week,and I am taking Shaman with me. I know he will be fine. Well, I hope every one's New Year is a good one. To be continued......................

Nala,my retired guide dog had to have emergency surgery

I had to take Nala, my retired guide dog to the vet for emergency surgery on Thursday morning. The night before, the dogs were outside and I heard a commotion and went out to see what was going on. The dogs were fighting and I yelled for them to stop. They all stopped and I called them in.I did not notice that Nala had an injury until the next morning.Her right K9 tooth and part of the upper jaw were broken.The vet had to remove the tooth and a part of the bone.She will be fine but I now have a $500.00 vet bill.We think she must have gotten her K9 caught on another dog's collar to get this kind of injury. That pretty much wipes out Christmas for me.I will have to make gifts.At least I will be eating Christmas dinner at Carla's house this year.I had to go to PetsMart to get crickets for Puff, my Bearded Dragon, and Shaman was pretty good.He only barked and growled at one dog and I told him to leave it. All I had to do was say leave it when any dog walked past us.Why couldn't he be that good when we went to the street fair? He barked and growled at every dog he saw there. It was very embarrassing.The guy with the 2 pit bulls has really undone a lot of Shaman's training, as I had him pretty well dog socialized. Every time he walks those dogs by my house and they fight with my dogs through the fence, Shaman gets more dog aggressive.Animal Control has done nothing to stop this from happening.The guy just laughs at me when I ask him to control his dogs.I have tried to keep the dogs in when I think he may walk his dogs, but he does not do it at the same time every day. I have to keep working on Shaman to correct this behavior as I am afraid of what might happen if we meet another dog on the bus. To be continued..................

Shaman was very good on Thursday

I went to the bank on Thursday. No one petted Shaman as the bus had a ramp and we went up together. No one distracted him at all the entire day and he did his job flawlessly. Why can't it be like this every time we go out?If people leave him alone, he stays focused on the job at hand.I really like it when he is so good.I don't worry that he will get us in to trouble. I was able to get some of my bills paid and go to the grocery store with no problems. It was a rare day, a good day! To be continued............