At least once a quarter we are suppose to send our pups on what we call a "Puppy Switch" or a "Home Switch". What it is, is either you send your puppy to another raiser's house and get their puppy or you send your puppy to another raiser or sitter's house and don't get a puppy in exchange. You can do it for any ammount of time, I use to try to do one switch a month for a weekend, but this time around I've decided (with the advice of other raiser's) that I'm going to do only one a quarter, but do it for a full week because, with a weekend, but the 3rd day the pup is usually finally settling in and then a da later they go back to their raiser, but with a week, they have plenty of time to settle in and then have fun going different places they haven't been before. So, Ben is on a switch for the week with another raiser in my town. We got here dog, Lenny, who is a male black lab and he is 14 months old. Because he is 14 months old he will get an IFT date soon and so his raiser said why don't we just take Lenny from Monday to Wednesday (which turned into Thursday, today) and she'll keep Ben until Monday the 23rd. Anyway, while we had Lenny we did a fair ammount of things with him. Monday I didn't do anything with him. Tuesday he ran some errands with me, we went to the library and the store. Wednesday he came to work with me at the library for 3 hours, then we went to the bank and Subway; and lastly from 4:30-5:30 my friend and I went to the local high school to walk Lenny for an hour which went well too. Thursday (today) was his last day and he came to work again with me. In the afternoon I met up with his raiser and Ben and we went to a high school basketball game and then Lenny went back home and Ben will get to spend the rest of his switch with Lenny, they are best friends. :) So, here are some pictures!
Lenny on the 17th (Tuesday) when we were heading to the library
Lenny at the library. He has a "gentle leader" on because he has a medical problem, a soft trachea. They are keeping him on program until IFT and then once he goes in training they will see if he will be able to pull in harness without it bothering him.
Lenny at work on the 18th
Lenny and Ben watching the basketball game on the 19th :)
Lenny at the game on the 19th
Ben at the game on the 19thI'm down to two dogs which feels weird! haha But it was fun to have some snuggle time with just Teddy on the floor tonight. :) Have a good night! We're getting hit with more snow overnight, yay!!! :) Well, yay as long as that doesn't mess up my plans of going to the barn tomorrow to ride Abel and do chores... lol
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