Shane and My Guinea Pig, Maple

Oh my gosh, it was sooo funny. I recently got a six-week-old (now nine weeks) guinea pig that can fit in the palm of my hand! When I first got her, she would freak out and squeal loudly whenever Shane or Waldo came near. But this morning I was holding her on my lap and Shane came up and sniffed her. Amazingly, she started squeaking in delight. Maple turned around and started licking his nose. She kept licking him and then Shane turned and started licking her plump little underside. That's the first time that's happened. Next time I'll post a picture of her.

Waldo is Turning One Next Month

No, I'm not kidding. It seems like it was only yesterday when I published my first post, not knowing what a funny yellow Lab named Waldo would come to me, always eager for attention and yet always ready to be the world's fastest runner when he grabs something naughty. Waldo has been such fun to have around, the house will seem empty when he goes up to New York for his final evaluation. You know how us kids always say, "I want to be a fireman" or "I want to be an artist when I grow up"? We never realize that some people (or dogs, in this case) don't have a choice. To quote Shakespeare, "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." I think Waldo is the third one, "some have greatness thrust upon them". If you think that I am making this all up, let me assure you I'm not.

Waldo's Jacket

Well, as you can see from the title, Waldo has his jacket! It's also hard to beleive he's turning 10 months old on the 17th. Here's a picture of Waldo in his jacket. We really should take a better picture. That's Sue in the yellow shirt. I should post a picture of Cathy too, but we don't have a picture of her. To my faithful readers, I'm trying to get back to writing every week.......oops! I have kind of neglected my blog, but I am trying to get back on track. Anyway, Waldo has been progressing rapidly with his training. He is definitely walking better on the leash, but I don'thandle him that much since he is very strong. Trust me on this one. Last week he had to go up to the Guiding Eyes facility in New York for his plugged tear duct that was making his eye run with yucky "eye boogers". That's what we call them. So now he has to be on a glue-like medicine that we have to apply for 42 days! Waldo was certainly happy to be home with his buddy, Shane. As you can see they can hardly share a bed any more, but they manage. Ha ha!

Yum, Yum

Waldo enjoys relaxing and chewing on his bone after going over all of his commands. He does well with: backup, sit, down, go place, kennel, lets go, get busy, sit and stay, down and stay, not yours, come and here.

He enjoys visiting at our church, Wal Mart, Best Buy and the library. He always likes seeing the smaller kids and people at church and the library.

Shane sharing with Waldo

Shane lets Waldo share his bed when they get tired out from playing or going on walks. Poor Shane, sometimes Waldo will crowd Shane right out of his own bed! Shane gets to have all of the bed at night when Waldo sleeps in his kennel.

First chance of water fun in March

I've been finishing up with school work so haven't spent much time working on the blog....sorry.
The first really warm day in March, we got the baby pool out for the dogs. Waldo loved playing in the water and didn't want to get out. He drank a lot so that meant that I had to keep taking him out to "get busy".

Long time, No blogging!

Hi everybody!
Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas!

Waldo has gotten HUGE!! Next I'll post some pictures. Waldo now has to lay down before he can eat and we're working on his walking on a leash. I have to go now because we are about to eat dinner, but before I go let me say this, there's going to be alot of pictures next time!

Cute pictures of Waldo

In this picture Waldo was being a little pot because he wouldn't look at the camera (well, I shouldn't say anything because Shane wouldn't look either).

Waldo has figured out that if he runs off with a sock, and we call him back and he drops it, he gets a kibble. On Monday he had his evsluations and he did really well, surprisingly enough. Thank goodness it was warm because the evals were outside.

I took this picture when I was laying on my side with Waldo next to me on the floor. He probably weighs 35lbs.

Stuff with Waldo

Hi everyone. Sorry it's been a long time since I updated. There's been alot going on.

Waldo weighs 27 lbs. He eats 1 cup of food three times a day. (So altogether he eats 3 cups of food a day.) Today he went to Best Buy, the library, the post ofice, and Heather's school in the band room. He greeted lots and lots of people though they were mostly little kids. When we were coming home from picking up Heather, we stopped to look at Christmas trees. So I told Waldo to get busy on the grass. Well, he pooped, right, so we left after Mom picked it up and it reeked so bad we were gagging. Mom told me to hang it out the window, so then she closed the window with the baggie hanging out. It was really funny because we were laughing all the way home.
On Sunday we took him to church and he slept through the sermon. He met all sorts of people. One woman is looking into becoming a raiser for Guiding Eyes. He absolutely loved being hugged, petted, rubbed, and cuddled. And this coming Monday he's going to have his quarterly evaluation which is like a checkup to see how he's doing in training and stuff.

Waldo and the Vet and Birthday Party

Well, yesterday we took Waldo to the veterinarian clinic for a checkup. He weighs 19.8 pounds and we had to up his food intake to 1 cup of food 3 times a day. The staff and the doctor were very nice and he got plenty of attention. I got to look through the microscope at Waldo's fecal sample. It was kind of cool, and the good thing was there were no bugs, worms, etc.

Heather just had a birthday party so six rather loud girls, including my sister, came home from school with her. Waldo loved, was loved on, and held all afternoon. Even balloons popping loudly didn't scare him.

And finally at the end of the day he:

CRASHLANDED ON SHANE'S BED FOR A NICE LONG NAP!!