- Location
- Herefordshire, UK
Echo - Guide Dog
- Thread starter Boogie
- Start date
- Location
- East Sussex
Oh gosh you seem to have had him for so long, I'm sure it will be hard to part. But very well done to you for a fabulous job of puppy training. x
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
on your behalf 
- Location
- Malvern Worcestershire
Boogie
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- Location
- Manchester UK
He will adjust in an instant!I have teary eyes for Echo, leaving behind all that he has knownI am sure he will quickly adjust.
Also teary eyes for @Boogie xx
He‘s been on lots of holidays, he gets in the boarders car without a glance back and heads straight for the toy box when they arrive and settles in. Not a moment‘s hesitation. Just like all GD pups.
It‘s because our methods and routines are exactly the same - feeding routines, spending routines, bedtime routines, rules, training signals - everything.
Also GD pups are bred to be super bold and confident. This makes them hard work, but pays off when it comes time to move on.
Consider Kier. He came to me, then Atherton School, then Leeds for advanced training, then Oxford for hearing dog training (five months), then back to Leeds for training with his owner, then to his owner. Not a wobble for any of the moves.
I will be weeping - but it will be for me, not for Echo. He will love Big School and is very much ready for it.
- Location
- Malvern Worcestershire
- Location
- Isle of Man
Ah I'm going to miss the fluffy teddy-dog.
Boogie
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- Location
- Manchester UK
Echo gallops like a horse!
Boogie
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- Location
- Manchester UK
That pink nose! 
- Location
- Herefordshire, UK
He looks so good and full of energy! Lovely
- Location
- Argyll & Bute, Scotland
He's glorious xx
Boogie
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- Location
- Manchester UK
I’ve found Echo’s Grandad, Sellers.
He will be ten in April. He retired a couple of years ago.
He will be ten in April. He retired a couple of years ago.
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Boogie
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- Location
- Manchester UK
And his half sister Pat - no resemblance at all! 
Boogie
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- Location
- Manchester UK
Echo likes getting the vet bed, taking it to his bed and covering himself up. 
Jacqui-S
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- Location
- Fife, Scotland
That's sweet.
Lilly will rarely if ever lift anything. She will stand at her bed waiting for someone to lift a toy from her bed so she can get in it.
Lilly will rarely if ever lift anything. She will stand at her bed waiting for someone to lift a toy from her bed so she can get in it.
- Location
- Fife, Scotland
Oreo, on the other hand, just goes and lies on top of whatever is thereThat's sweet.
Lilly will rarely if ever lift anything. She will stand at her bed waiting for someone to lift a toy from her bed so she can get in it.
Same as Snowie. Or he starts to dig the carpet. His sign to us that we must position his blankie just so. I wish he’d be like Echo and position it himself!That's sweet.
Lilly will rarely if ever lift anything. She will stand at her bed waiting for someone to lift a toy from her bed so she can get in it.
Emily_Babbelhund
Mama Red HOT Pepper
- Location
- Regensburg, Germany
I've created a monster with Carbon, because he now MUST sleep under the covers, but has no idea how that works in practicality. He will continue to lay on the top of the covers but shove just his nose under. When I point out that he has to STAND UP to get under the covers, he just gives me this look that says "You are a woefully inadequate human in every way if you cannot get me UNDER the covers without making me MOVE." Then, as you can imagine, we reach quite the impasse.
It is one reason that I try to make sure that I turn down the bed before Carbon comes in for the night. Getting him on top of the fitted sheet instead of the duvet just makes life much easier. Also means I can avoid the dreaded ten foot stare. For a dog who doesn't have much expression in his face, Carbon sure can communicate "You are an idiot".
It is one reason that I try to make sure that I turn down the bed before Carbon comes in for the night. Getting him on top of the fitted sheet instead of the duvet just makes life much easier. Also means I can avoid the dreaded ten foot stare. For a dog who doesn't have much expression in his face, Carbon sure can communicate "You are an idiot".
Boogie
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- Location
- Manchester UK
I don’t cover him up - the either covers himself or stays uncovered. He has a fur coat after all!Can't you have a smaller cover just to throw over him so he doesn't have to move. It does need to be big.
Annie has one for when she is on the sofa to keep her warm, poor thing isn't life hard
<cruel mum>