(Hilly getting ready for her massage; I did take off the jacket once we were settled)
After our class I booked it out of the kennels so that I wouldn't catch a glimpse of Rocco. Then we walked around the vendor booths. I usually buy a toy or two, but since I knew I wouldn't have Hilly for much longer and still haven't made my final decision on raising in Scotland I decided not to buy anything at the vendor booths (I don't need anymore GDB t-shirts! HAHA!). But we did go to the gift shop to buy a calender for me and a calender for my mom (Remember; Rocco is Mr. May!) and two black lab stuffed puppies in training (I lost the one I bought in honour of Freya at the London Heathrow airport).
Then with nothing to do, we went to our littermate meeting spot. We were the first ones by, but we did get to meet up with Snickers and Tartan.
(Hilly greeting Mr. Snickers)
Then her littermates started showing up. When I went to Fun Day with Freya I met one littermate (Freeway) and with Rocco none of his littermates showed up. All of Hilly's sisters (who were still in the program) showed up. And Hermes was there, but he had just been put into the kennels for his recall before the meeting. That was a bummer, but at least I got to meet her other siblings. The two I didn't get to meet were Hibachi (who was donated) and Havasu (who was CC'd). This was also my calmest littermate meeting.
From left to right: Halette, Hestia, Hilly, Hanalei, and Hana
This is a closeup of Halette, Hestia, and Hilly. You'll have to excuse my hair, it was a humid morning.
Then I got some close up pictures...
Hestia
Hanalei
Hana
Halette
All these girls were little like Hilly, but Hana was the smallest. I was told she weighed in at 42 lbs! She was small!
After that was lunch which was donated by Panera bread. So, I was a happy girl! I loooovvvveeee Panera! Then we got to watch the training departments demo.
Hilly slept through the whole training demo. And while Rocco wasn't used for the training demo guess who was! Belle puppy EATON was used! It was sooooo cool to see Eaton working up there. The training demo was really cool. Being a part of the training department at Guide Dogs has always been a possible job for me. I mean, I really would love it and every time I see the trainers out there training the dogs in harness I'm reminded about how much I would love to do it. Who knows? I'm still a few years away from graduating form University...
Oh! I also snapped this picture of Hilly's dog mom, "Aqua", from the littermate books.
I also found out that Dylan has been retired from breeding. Yes, I'm sad that I don't get the chance to raise another Dylan pup as the two girls I've had have been wonderful, but he was getting up there in years. If Dylan's puppy raisers are miraculously reading my blog I would just like to say thank you for raising a great daddy. I've thoroughly enjoyed raised his babies.
Tomorrow I shall write about our ferry ride into San Francisco.
Didn't Eaton do a wonderful job on stage? We had Estee in our group.
ReplyDeleteIt was fun seeing you and meeting Hilly. I was surprised that the whole litter showed up. The best litter meet up I have experienced in 6 dogs. oH and that picture of Halette is sooo cute. Thanks for posting it. My goofy girl.