Every summer since 2008 the library in my town has done "Reading with Dogs". Children who need to practice reading (or anyone who wants to come!) signs up for 15 minute times to read to whatever dog I am currently raising. :) Summer '08 and '09 was Beau, Dahlia was the end of '09 and '10 and Halsa joined Dahlia in '10 too. Summer '11 was Whitley and now Summer '12 will be Ben and Teddy. Since I have two dogs this time and one isn't a tiny puppy we are doing something different, this year Ben and Teddy will rotate weeks. One week will be Ben, then next Teddy, the next Ben, etc. We start Thursday July 5th and will have it each Thursday 9:30-12 until August 2nd. Also, I wrote up "bios" that Ben and Teddy "wrote" about themselves and then we took pictures of them in front of the big "Once Upon a Time..." book that our library has. :) Below is the one we took of both of them in front of the book, but we also did individual shots as well. Oh! This years summer reading program theme is "Dream Big" so another puppy raiser made me night time bandanas with a patch that says "Dream Big" on it for them to wear when they have their reading times. I'm super excited for this and can't believe this is our 4th summer doing this! :)
Teddy and Ben
Ben is closest to the camera, I can't believe Teddy at only 6 1/2 months is taller then Ben who is 12 months!
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GEB graduation was the 28th and a friend asked a friend who was having a dog graduate to get pictures of Whitley for me! :) Whitley is now rooming with a female yellow lab named Tally. :)
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And lastly, here's Toby! The region he is being finished in now posted this picture of him. :)
2 comments:
That sounds like such a great program!
Oh! I know Tally!! When I was in NC, I puppy sat her right before she went in for training. She is such a sweetie! I'm so glad to see she is doing well! :-)
That's cool! Small world that Whitley is rooming with a dog you know! haha :)
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