Twiglet is beautiful - she has blossomed into a fine young lady. You do a great job Mags (and Tatze of course).
Wow, Twiglet and Barnaby look so different to each other! Tatze is such a good girl, welcoming so many dogs into her home
It's nice to see brother and sister together, so you can see the difference between a bitch and a dog. I'd say Barnaby is a male version of Twiglet - the boys are supposed to be bigger and look like boys! He is lovely.
Gorgeous photos! So wonderful to know that Twiglet has the opportunity to change someone's life so very profoundly (assuming she passes, come on Twiglet!). Bittersweet for you, for sure, but hopefully the sweet outweighs the bitter
Their build is but don't you think they look exactly the same across the eyes? Seeing this makes me wonder what Dexter's sisters would have been like...he's such a mini Labrador ,the bitches must have been tiny x
Guide dogs and pups are not allowed balls, for obvious reasons, but they are allowed 'fetch' toys - Twiglet loves hers! .
If, by any chance, one of the guide dog puppies you were training, failed to be a guide dog, would you have it back to live with you?
I was asked if I would be interested in having Gypsy back when she retires, if her owner is unable to keep her (7 years old ish) and my answer was YES! But a pup? No, I am practicing being strong and saying 'no' as it happens to all puppy walkers sooner or later, one in four don't make it to qualification. I want to carry on puppy walking and couldn't manage two youngsters and Tatze. My husband is away a lot ~ he's an obsessed cyclist, this summer he's cycling coast to coast USA, Seattle to Boston .
Good gracious, he is a keen cyclist I did wonder if your 'urge' to have puppies to train would outweigh having one back and not being able to have another pup I imagine there must be people queuing up for the pups who do not get to qualify?
I'd love to be a puppy walk but I honestly don't think I could give them up at the end to go to Big School, and if I did manage to hand them over I'd probably be hoping that mine was the 1 in 4 that fails
Oh yes - there is never a shortage of willing owners (often the trainers take them on as they fall for them too!) But puppy walking is what I DO - so I would have to completely rethink my retirement if I gave it up. I am practicing being very strong if that day comes, because saying 'no' would break my heart even more than giving them up in the first place! .
A puppy walker friend of mine is wishing exactly that right now. She has a fabulous flatcoat/GR cross called Picasso, she really wishes he'd fail!! (he's her seventh, so far 3 have qualified and three haven't)
