=sigh=
This is Nisha's last 24 hours with us. Tomorrow Guide Dogs of America will have a lunch for the puppy raisers whose puppies have come of age and will continue their training.

When we arrive at the campus, we will hand over her yellow jacket. We will socialize and play with the other returning pups. Then we will sit down to a yummy hot lunch (catered/donated by a family who also raises pups and owns a restaurant). Afterwards, we have a few last moments of play, then we all march down to the kennels and put our pups into their kennel. We remove our collars and tags, put the tags on the GDA collar and then put that collar on our pup. This is pretty much the part where everyone gets choked up and misty eyed. We say out last good byes, watch them play with their new kennel mate......

GDA is very good about making our pups write home one a month, keeping the family abreast of what they are doing in College.

I will never see Nisha again.... unless she successfully completes her harness training and she graduates. Then I will see her at the Graduation Ceremony.... but that's another story.... and requires a BIG box of Kleenex!




PS. my next puppy is still in utero.... I estimate about 10 - 14 weeks before she will be ready to come home with me. (I always ask for a female because my alpha dog prefers females and I like peace in the house!)