I WAS ALL SET TO DISCUSS MORNING EXERCISES OF PUTTING ON ONE'S SOX, AND PULLING DOWN TEH LONG UNDERWEAR TO MEET THEM- I WAS GOING TO DISCUSS TEH MAIL CALL WHERE STEVE AND I GOT INTO THE FACT THAT I CAN TOUCH MY NOSE WITH MY LEFT FOOT.....BUT THEN TEH HUDSON RIVER GOT IN THE WAY...
I THOUGHT I'D CHECK MY EMAILS BEFORE I WROTE THIS TO SEE IF TEHRE WAS ANYTHING COLORFUL TO COPY AND PASTE....I GOT AN EMAIL FROM SOMEONE involved with parkenson work IN THE HUDSON RIVER AREA..
Dear Carlene,
Thanks for your response.
Ahh, so you were once a Hudson River Valley person yourself!
It is clear that your dogs do amazing work and change lives and of course they must be placed where they can maximize their potential for goodness.
I brought up the Parkinson’s connection because I work on a Helpline for the Parkinson’s Foundation and I spend my days trying to come up with ways to help people affected by or living with this disease. My father had Parkinson’s (did you mention in one of your video’s that your father did too?). As I said, I am really happy to know that you have been able to provide your fantastic dogs to quite a few people with PD. Your commitment, if I understand it correctly, to making the dogs available to needy people with disabling conditions, without a cost to them is, nothing short of amazing.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
JM
STARTING WITH NOT EVERY DOG BECOMES A SERVICE DOG- IT THEN BECOMES A VERY SERIOUS JOB TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL THE DOGS WE "CREATE" FIND A PURPOSFUYL EXISTANCE OF USING THEIR UNUSUAL TALENTS TO HELP SOMEONE DO SOMETHING.
JUST AS WILLIE'S UNBOUNDED JOY- MADE HIM IMPOSSIBLE IN THE STABILITY DEPARTMENT, HE IS PERFECT AS A PEASE GREETER TO MEET SOLDIERS COMING ADN GOING AT PEASE AIRFORCE BASE--WHILE PLANES ARE REFUELLED.... HAVING COMPLETED HIS EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOME DEPOT -- GETTING AN ADVANCED DEGREE IN "WHOPPPPPPIIIEEEEEE MEN!" - JOYCE WILL NOW ENABLE HIM TO FURTHER HIS CAREER .
WE MAY HAVE... IN THE PAST CALLED TEHM PERFECT PETS... OR FABULOUS FAILURES, BUT WE TRY TO HAVE 99.4% OF ALL OUR PUPS DO SOMETHING... I FIND THAT THE REAL WORLD OF SERVICE DOGS IS NOW CALLING THEM " FACILITY DOGS" WHERE THEY BASICALLY BELONG TO ONE PERSON- WHO THEN "USES" THEM ON A DAILY BASIS FOR SOME WAAY TO LIGHTEN THE LOAD FOR OTHERS. OFETN JUST A SMILE IS A HUGE IMPROVVEMENT. THE ROAD TRIP --- FRY PAN-- BRIGADE IS DOING WONDERS.
WHICH SLIDES ME INTO TEH PURPLE FRY PAN STORY......
JUDY AND I FOUND THAT WHEN WE GO TO A SENIOR CENTER OF ANY TYPE-- THEY ARE NEARLY DESPARATE FOR AMUSEMENT. TEHSE HUGE DOGS DON'T HAVE TODO MUCH TO BE Amusing anyway.. so in an effort to amuse people whith what our danes do best we devised a cookie distribution method- requiring zilch training...here's how it goes.. me- sitting at one end of the r4oom with bentley and sizzle-- judy wantes away with "anyone want to pat the dog?" someone always says yes-- so she hands them a small 7 " fry pan, then drops 1/2 a cookie into it from about 14 inches to make a recogniziaable clank... all i have to do is say either bentlye or sizzle-- and ONE dashS across the floor and eat the cookie -- to the great delight of all teh on-lookers. i call tehm back to me and judy move to the next....
we have proven that it is impossible to fill up a great dane in an hour at 1/2a cookie evry 4.3 minutes. dog dashes to the lap of the seated person 100 % focused on teh cookie and chewing while photo's are taken and people pat the dog..
i know it is not nice ro tempt fate--- or goldie-- but it seems to be trouble free-- people are seated -- lessening the posibility of getting knocked over by a happy dog... dogs are focused on teh fry pan and don't have interest informing an opinion about the people,
well i have at least one dog who i need to get out for this SPECIALIZED "training" ---- lovely dog- would be a super cookie eater.
I MUST INSTRUCT MEGAN OF THIS NEW FORM OF DOG TRAINING BECAUSSE JUDY IS GOING TO BE AWAY FOR A WEEK OR TWO... AND WE NEED TO DECIDED WHICH OF OUR DOGS WOULD BE BEST SUITED FOR THIS SPECIAL TRAINING. THERE ARE ONE OR TWO. THEY NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE TO WORK.
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RETIURNING TO THE PURPLE FRY PAN- I HAVE ALWAYS HAD FRY PANS TO FEED DONKEYS AND HORSES- NOT ONLY GUARDING LITTLE FINGERS BUT TRAINING THE DONKEYS TO CONCENTRATE ON FRY PANS - NOT FINGERS OFTEN FLAVORED BY PEPERMINT CANDY CANES.-
I GOT THE IDEA OF USING IT WITH THE DOGS ONE DAY AT MAIL CALL I SAID "WE NEED TO TRY DOGS WITH PANS-- AND SOMEONE ELSE SAID "THEY SHOULD BE PURPLE" AND SO HELP ME THE NEXT BOX I OPENED HAD 2 PURPLE FRY PANS IN IT.
THERE IS A FRIGHTENING NUMBER OF THOSE GOLDIE STORIES..
IS THIS PK BIT ONE OF THEM??
