Hi Puppy Raisers,
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| Carolyn and Sunny. Carolyn is on Sunny's right side and Sunny is sitting. Sunny is a yellow lab. |
I'm Carolyn and I’m excited about taking over the Area
Coordinator position for North Pinellas. I have some really, really big
shoes to feel and hope that 2012 is filled with many positive puppy raising
experiences. I know most of you, but in case you don't know who I am,
our family has been raising for a little over three years. Our first pup, JC
is a Collie and he’s working guide dog in Georgia. We got our second pup, Tyler,
when he was about 10 months old. He was immediately career changed due to
hips. We only “raised” him for about 3 weeks, so I don’t really count him
in the number of pups we’ve had (but we did adopt him).
Our 3rd
dog is Kenny. Kenny is in perpetual IFT. He went back the first
week of March and has decided that getting a PhD at Southeastern might be the way to
go. I guess there’s still hope for him because they haven't career changed
him and he just recently was in the news. Our 4th pup, Stewart, we picked up at 11 months
old. He was career changed in November and Tampa Police Department picked
him up: he’s now training as a drug sniffing dog. Sunny is our 5th
dog. She’s the pup that the Suncoast Puppy Raisers sponsored this year.
You’ll be seeing a lot of her. I can’t imagine NOT raising.
I’ve put together a 2012 calendar. I’d say it’s not
likely to change. The only changes I’d foresee would be for
exposures that come up as a once-a-year opportunity (a parade, a ball
game, or something like that).
We will take some of the meetings that we’ve done in the
years past that are wonderful exposures, like Celebration Station, the
Threshers baseball game, and a Jolly Trolly ride and build on those. If
you, your friends, or family could “expose” us to something we haven’t thought
about before, I’d love to hear those suggestions. We are also going to open this blog
up for people to add their own cool exposures in case we are out and
about. For instance I was at the International Mall today and they have a
two story stair steps with glass walls. The glass walls were fascinating
enough, but adding the stairs and people walking downstairs toward us, was
awesome for Sunny to navigate. I don’t typically go over there, and
almost didn’t take Sunny with me, but if I’d have known that there was this
neat exposure, I wouldn’t have hesitated taking her.
Let’s do this together. We are all in this for the
same end result. To change a life.
Carolyn and Sunny
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