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I will no longer be updating Iron Guide (see below). Instead, I am now writing at my new, personal blog. Though that will be about some of the newer things I'm doing in life, if you want to see updates about Louie, Lester, and now Dusky, add me on Facebook -- there's enough ridiculously cute pictures to go around.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Puppy Sitters to the Rescue
In Stanford at Startup School. At this moment, I'm listening to Mitch Kapor speak. Lester is staying with the Rohrers. He's a happy little puppy generally, but hopefully he'll keep his whining and solicitousness under control. Mary Ann knows to not let Lester get away with anything, since he occasionally tries to probe just how much he can get away with if he's with people he doesn't know.
One of the incredible things about Guide Dogs is the puppy sitting option. I travel frequently, once or so a month. While Marina and I were still together, I was traveling even more and it was an even bigger issue. This isn't a problem just for us as raisers for Guide Dogs, but for anyone with a dog in general. If you're single, and even occasionally go away on business or pleasure, it's almost a total show-stopper. Yeah, you can board your dog, but that becomes very expensive very quickly. Yeah, you can have your friend or neighbor watch them, but, unless you have, say, a co-worker who not just loves dogs, but loves your dog, you're going to run out of people pretty quickly.
Really, without the Pringles, the Rohrers and all our other puppy sitters, I wouldn't be able to do this. Let's hear one for them.
UPDATE 2007-03-25: I decided that the name of this post ["Puppy Sitting (Again)"] didn't quite capture how much I appreciated our puppy sitters. So, now, it's "Puppy Sitters to the Rescue".
Labels: Lester
Permalink | Written at 10:19 AM | Post a comment | 1 comments | TrackbacksI've got to give it up for puppy sitters, they saved me time and time again with #1 MYL Iverson, many times to just give me and my sister a break from his spaziness! Here's one for the puppysitters!!
Allisha & currently no puppy, so I'm a puppysitter! :-)
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raiserally at March 30, 2007 7:47 PM
