Walking Rules

Here is how to walk with  a guide dog team. This NOT my school ( I went to Leader Dogs).

https://www.facebook.com/GuidingEyes/videos/2556307997920557/

Originally published January 28th

When Your Dog Has to Go....

You know when you are truly living the guide dog life when half way through your walk around the mall, your dog has to go out. At this point, you are ready to send your dog to the moon because your coat is laying on a chair on the other side of the mall in the food court. All I have to say is thank goodness for thick warm hoodies.

The best part of this story, is that you take the dog out before you go inside, and your dog decides that this spot isn't suited to her potty needs.    

There's Snow Everywhere

Mom hasn't let me on here since we made this blog. THERE IS SNOW EVERYWHERE! There was snow when we went on the retreat and it was snowing while we were up there. When we got home there was snow here too. Mom was super happy with how well I did at the retreat. She made me sit in the snow to get a picture, burr my butt was cold.

♡Ori

PD: me sitting in the snow with some covered trees behind me.

Retreat

I went on a retreat and Ori did amazing! When we got there she learned the routes really fast, on our first walk! I met some great people and learned how to cross country ski. Ori drove everyone nuts anxiously awaiting my return while I was out learning.

☆Katie

PD: a  cabin covered in snow surrounded by snow covered trees 

New Year, New Semester

Even with a month-long break between last semester and this semester Ori still remembers it all (No surprise there). We have fallen into the same routine,  which is not a bad thing, but a change would be nice. I am already swamped with reading for classes.  Ori loves everyone and everyone loves her, my one prof nearly died when I said Ori could be loose in the classroom. I like having something to do, but all the work sucks. I know this really about the dog (sorry).

☆Katie

Training Time

Yes, it is post  in a different blog by my school, but it is interesting and informative. People ask me about this all the time.

https://www.leaderdog.org/blog/how-guide-dogs-are-trained/

☆Katie

Happy New Year

Better late than never. Happy New year

♡Ori

PD: a black and tan GSD with a 2020 tiera on her head

Introducing Ann and Mint

I would like to introduce to you, my amazing, wonderful, four-legged partner yellow lab, Mint, AKA Minty.  She and I met at Guiding Eyes for the Blind, in Your-town Heights New York. We have been partners since 2015.
Having Mint in my life has brought so much joy, and freedom into my life.  With her, I can rule the world!

I will share the ups, downs, and inside outs with all of you, as Mint and I continue on our adventures together.i  For those of you that cannot see the picture is a woman sitting in front of a fountian with a yellow lab at her feet.

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I suppose I Need No Introduction

Let me introduce myself. I am Minty's other half of this guide dog operation. My name is Ann, and I am currently a substitute teacher. I graduated with a BA in journalism from Oakland University.
My goals in life include traveling the world and writing about everything and anything.
You will all know with future blogs, that my dog thinks she is the boss. For the most part, she is. I hope that the new year will bring many adventures.

My Turn

We already heard from the human half of The O.K Team, now it's my turn.

Hi!! 

My name is Ori, I am one of the best things mom ever did (She tells me all the time). I met mom ( yes, she is my mom and nobody can tell us otherwise) in 2017 at Leader Dogs for the Blind. I am a rambunctious, 4 year old German Shepherd, I love playing, and being outside. Mom has documented many of what she calls my antics, like the photo below of me on the wrong side of the desk staring back at her. I am Mints "younger sister" and I love her, she'll disagree (I don't know why tho).
♡Ori

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Hi from The O.K Team

Hi everyone!!

My name is Katie and I am here with my guide dog Ori to be one of the authors of this blog, this is my first blog so bear with mre. We make up The O.K Team. I am currently in college to become an elementary teacher. From me you will get random articles I have written, personal stories, made up dialogs between me and the dog, and  things I think the dog would say if she could talk. There will also be pictures and maybe videos of both of us. I will try to post once a week but school comes first.

For those of you that cannot see the picture I posted it is of a young woman with brown hair and a black tee shirt sitting at a picnic table with a black and tan German Shepard wearing a guide harness standing on the ground next to her.

☆Katie