A few weeks back we lost our labrador of nearly 13 years, Harry. He was a typical "andrex puppy/guide dog". Had him since a puppy and has grown up with the kids. I was going to do a post about it but tbh was too painful. We have another lab of 5 years so plenty of joy and life in him. All feels weird atm. BTW our current lab is called Beau. Idea of the kids to call them both Harry-Beau.
Anyway my wife and I have had many dogs over the years and we are both getting to an age where 1 dog is a lot easier so we haven't rushed out to get another. At one point, before kids, we had 5 dogs !! If I'm honest, we can't take dogs passing on anymore.
To do something positive from this we've setup donations to the Guide Dogs for the blind. So we are sponsoring Willow.
So reminds us of Harry as a pup.
Although, to be fair, Harry would have been a nightmare as a guide dog!! I think it would have been Harry 10 humans 1!!
Anyway, if you can spare a few quid a month do help the guide dogs out it is great.
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Watched the “Pick of the litter’ series on Disney+ about guide dog training a few months ago. It was great & I learned a lot. Some were career changed when they weren’t suitable, so were used to do different tasks/jobs.