Long time no post

Hey everyone,

Well I know it's been a while since I updated y'all. But quite honestly it's been too hot and I did just get over bein' sick, and there's also facebook. Though I haven't posted much on that either.

It's been a good summer so far. Mom's been walkin' a lot in the mornin's still. Since it started gettin' way hot though, she stopped that for a bit. Good thing too. I was dyin' out there. My days consist of gettin' groomed, sleepin' as much as I can with Winston around, and beggin' from the humans for things. Accept Dasher mom gettin' real annoyed with that. She started movin' the gate further and further back away from the kitchen door. Excuse me! That's my spot Dasher ma! O and Dasher dad? Shoot I'm still miffed at him. Wait till you hear the injustice he did.

So in our yard, ever since I came to live in this family, is a tree I call the treat tree. It drops apples all over the place. It's my favorite tree in the whole yard. So one day, I look outside, Dasher dad is cuttin' the thing down! I mean I stood and watched my treat tree crash on the deck. As soon as I was able I ran outside and started grabbin' as many apples as I could and runnin' off to hide them. It's completely gone now, no more treat trea! Rue! Hardly any apples left either. They keep findin' them and gettin' rid of them. I mean what am I sposed to do in the yard without the treat tree to supplament my daily food consumption. I mean it!

Other things that have happened, We drove to a place where we parked and watched those things called fireworks. I laid in mom's lap the whole time. They don't bother me. Whatever.

Last night my mom and my April went swimmin'. Winston and I had to guide them over to the pool of course. Well they tied us up by their stuff and went to swim. Well shoot I was fine, just laid down hopin' for a nice nap. O no. Winston cried his fool head off the whole time. Shoot! I'm like shut up Winston the humans be right there in front of you. You can see them, they ok, and we ain't aloud to swim in that thing anyways. He wouldn't listen though. So much for a nap. O well, As it got dark I had to be on the alert anyways. My ma can't see so I gotta protect her and worn her of anything comin'. I don't care if it was our neighbor I barked bloody murder at that came in dude! It's dark I can't tell that I mean it!

Think that's about all I have. For not postin' on this thing in a while you'd think I'd have a lot to say, but really it's been a quiet summer. The biggest thing for me that's happened was my treat tree. Shoot I'm still upset about that.

I'll try and start updatin' this thing more. Maybe things will pick up soon and I'll have more to talk about. For now, I'll be doin' much the same things, eatin', sleepin', beggin', and workin' some too. Hope all my readers are behavin' themselves. Look for me on facebook and stay cool y'all. Shoot I thought we left this heat behind at mom's old home.

Reba the dog.

 

The dreaded R word

Hey everyone,

Well yes, I know my posts are gettin' fewer and fewer on this thing. I been really slackin'. Things are very routine around here lately. We've settled right in, and all the sudden mom's payin' more attention to me. I mean, groomin' me more, goin' for more walks, it's cool and all, but at first I was really miffed cuz she was cuttin' in to my routine of nap times. Shoot! Winston finally calmed himself down. He said he was just happy to have a friend and play mate again. Poor guy. Guess he really was feelin' lonely.

Oh and finally finally finally! Winston's got some of the same issues I do with food. Now at last he won't get treats while I'm denied them cuz of dumb food allergies.

Speakin' of allergies I got an ear infection again. Man these are annoyin'! I don't even know where this one came from cuz I been bein' good!

Well now to the reason I'm postin' this. I'm a little upset cuz I keep hearin' mom talkin' about the dreaded R word lately. For those of you who don't know, the word is retirement. Somethin' about how mom's really noticin' I'm slowin' down when we work. So today, I played extra long and extra hard. There. Hope that got rid of the R word from the humans vocabulary. Guess retirin' wouldn't be half so bad, I'd love to just spend the rest of my days sleepin' and beggin' and eatin'.

And speakin' of that too, my Dasher mom has been tellin' me to go on so much lately! Excuse me! Rue! I always sit by the kitchen door and beg and she usually always tosses me a carrot or apple or two. Hello! No I actually got put in mom's room a few times cuz I was beggin' too much I guess. Excuse me! Mom's got me workin' almost every day and I'm wastin' away even more!

Here's another thing goin' on. If any of you have me on facebook, you saw some of this, but today, mom goes in and starts cleanin' out my crate. Well she piles up several of my old toys on the floor, and lets Winston at them. Shoot he destroyed one, almost 2 in probably 10 minutes! Those are my toys I mean it! I don't care if I never play with them, and they old, shoot they mine! I left the room! I could not stand to see him destroy one more. He came home and totally claimed my toy box full of rubber toys and nylabones. No I don't play with most of them anymore either but still! That beside the point! Don't he got his own toys?

Hears somethin' else mom's started doin'. For a while now her and I go for walks in the mornin'. Just me and her. Well Dasher has a fit. Boy do I hear it when I come back too. Mostly I tune him out because I just want water. I'm like Dasher you really wanna go out with us, we get all hot and stuff! It's crazy! Well, mom has started takin' Dasher along with us. It took her a while to figure out how to walk him, and work me. But finally, she rigged something up. It's weird too. She has this short leash, and she hooks it to the side of my harness. Dasher's at the other end of it and so he's basically walkin' on my left side. Boy it drives him nuts too cuz he likes to stop all along the walk. No we don't do that. We out here to work and actually walk. So many times he stops and gets himself choked. I'm always tellin' him come on! Then I laugh at him and say, Hey, you wanted to come so bad, well here's what we do keep up! He'll get it eventually. It's kind of cool havin' him right there beside me. We can talk the whole time. He asks a lot of questions still about my guide work.

Well all, think that's about it for now. My nice clean bed is ready for me. I'll try and update this thing more. Y'all behave out there!

Reba the dog.

 

Crazy week

Hey everybody.

Well mom and I just got back from a little trip. Here's the weird part, my Dasher mom and dad, they left on their own trip a few days before me and mom did. And they drove. Did we get to drive? O no! We had to fly on one of them plane things. Shoot and the thing was delayed! I had to wait and wait for my dinner. And I hadn't even had breakfast. Don't mind Reba, I'll just starve right here on the airport floor. Well, we finally landed and to my surprise, we were in Greenville again where we used to live! Well I was all excited then. For the next several days we visited with old friends, went out to eat a lot, man humans can eat. I saw Winston again. Man that boy is sick. Shoot he got himself all worked up and sick over everythin'. Dude calm down! He was all upset cuz I left, then Matilda left, had it in his head that he was next, I said shoot Winston, out of all three of us, you the last one to go. For real! But you will if you keep explodin' in harness and stuff I mean it! So, had to calm him down, give him the old pep talk about walkin' across the stage. My April was graduatin'. Shoot I remember that all so well.

He wouldn't even play with me cuz he said I was sick too. Ok had a slight infection. Big deal! I was on antibiotics for it, I mean it!

So mid way through the week Dasher mom and dad showed up. I'm like where y'all come from? And if y'all here, why couldn't I ride with y'all instead of flyin' on one of them dumb planes! Sure enough they were campin' in greenville. But it smelled like they had been other places too.

We visited the camp site and they imediatly hooked me to a tree and went inside. Well I heard that air runnin' in there. Shoot it was hot. Yeh I know they gave me cold water and I was in the shade and stuff, but still! I'm spoiled! I need to be in the air too. So, I wrapped my leash around where they were plugged in to. And unplugged them. No air for the humans. I got a good laugh out of that. They let me inside too. Ha! I win!

April's graduation was the worst day ever. I was just not in a good mood. Man I didn't wanna work, I was tired, it had been a long week, I was just upset. And mom was no help. She didn't seem to care that her lab was off and not wantin' to work. She made me anyways. We fought through all the crouds, I got more corrections than I've gotten in a long time, And sayin' goodbye to everyone was hard. Shoot!

Finally, the day was over and Winston Dasher and I were alone in the camper to destress for the evenin'. That's all I needed too. I was back to normal after that.

Then for the long trip home. We all loaded up in the truck, it reminded me of when we moved home last summer. After many many hours, we arived home to my crate, my toys, my yard, and life has been wonderful ever since. We went for a walk last night and even though I had to stop several times to go, it still was lots of fun. Now if Winston will just calm down and get back to normal, we'll be all good.

Reba the dog.

 

 

The life of a service dog

Ok y'all, if you saw my post on facebook last night you know I'm lucky to be alive to tell this story. And I even have another to add to it. The life of a service dog may look glammerous, but like I keep tellin' Dasher, it ain't all it's cracked up to be. In fact, sometimes it can get downright dangerous! Shoot! Though, livin' with my mom is dangerous too for Dasher cuz he don't stay out of her way but that's beside the point.

So mom and my Dasher mom went to this ladies thing they call the Sharithon. Otherwise known as, Hours of naptime for Reba, with occasional leadin' mom around a few places. Apparently this year though, it also means, testin' Reba's reflexes, and poise as a leaderdog. Now I been at this job for almost 7 years with my mom and you'd think I've been through everything. I pride myself on bein' mostly unphased by most things, but apparently that ain't enough for the humans, they feel the need to test me more it seems.

So last night, I'm layin' there sound asleep, all is goin' well when this loud music comes over the speakers. No problem. I'm used to this. Well all the sudden out of nowhere I hear this super loud boom! I woke up from a wonderful dream of bein' barried in dog food to see a large box on the floor, just feet from my head. Someone had dropped a boom box within feet of my head! Hello! Looked like it was an accident and not part of the act. Least humans ain't totally lost their fool heads. Throwin' around boom boxes. All I can say is, thank goodness we were sittin' where we was I mean it! One roe back and I may have been a different dog today.

The next story happened today when we again went to more of this Sharithon. We sat in a different section this time. Few I thought. I'll be safe over here. So again, I curl up obediently where mom put me, and was soon asleep. This time the dream was of a giant milk bone that never got smaller no matter how much I ate it. Milk bones! Man I ain't had one in so long! Stupid allergies I mean it! So anyways, there I was, bein' a well behaved leaderdog when I heard this aweful wining noise. I pop up my head and look, and there's a monster flyin' at me! Shoot that ain't no milk bone! I shook my head wakin' up more and realized it was a woman on a scooter thing. She was goin' fast too! Zoomed right by me! I thought for sure she was gunna get my paw. Now that I think about it she was not that close but it sure seemed that way. When my heart calmed down after that one, I couldn't go back to sleep. I laid there and watched that scooter. I knew it was comin' back and sure enough it did a little while later, with the same obnoctious winin' noise like some cars make when they drive down the road. . I crawled around mom's leg after that to seek shelter under where they were sittin'. Looks like it's every dog for herself around here and I needed to find cover.

I don't know what the humans were expectin' out of me, but I'm pretty sure I disappointed them. Even caught off guard like that I kept my cool. I popped my head up, but I didn't sit up, stand up, wine, or bark. Mom said she was real proud of me and she and her friends felt bad I had been scared not once but twice. Yeh you better feel bad ma! Where's my treat! I know I heard a lady talkin' later in the day and in her speech I heard the words apples and carrots. Or was that in my dream too.

I was pretty good the rest of the day. Mom said I was too fidgity during lunch. Well excuse me ma! I'm kind of wonderin' what these humans are gunna do next. They get together and crazy things happen! Hello! There is a dog in your midst. A little consideration and some carrots might be nice. Mom let me walk around out of harness with her and her friends some to destress a little. That helped. I got home and all I wanted was my dinner. I didn't care that it was early. I wanted it now! I've had a hard day I deserve that much!

So even at my age, almost 8 and a half, you still never know what to expect when out with humans.

Reba the dog.

 

Funny Story

Ok y'all, so a few days ago my Dasher mom and dad went away for a few days leaving mom alone with us dogs. Well it was nice I thought, I slept a lot, and so did Dasher. But somethin' funny happened that I'm still laughin' about.

Mom was sitting in front of the tv for a bit, then she got up and went to one of the closets. She came back out with a spray bottle and paper towels in her hand. She knelt down by the TV again, just watchin' for a bit. Then, she gets up and turns around. Next thing that happened, and I have told Dasher time and again not to lay in mom's way but that fool just does not listen. So therefore, he gets stepped on all the time! I used to feel bad, but now I just laugh because seriously! Do you see me gettin' stepped on by mom? No! Why? Because I've learned to stay in a corner out of her way dude she can not see us at all! So anyways, sure enough, Dasher is layin' right in her path. Mom stepps on his paw, he yelps, and I look up and mom is flying through the air! I think she was tryin' to avoid stepping more on Dasher because by now he was moving to try and get out of the way, and he was makin' it worse. So mom's flyin' through the air, and she lands hard on the floor on her side. I laughed myself senseless at her. And Dasher was all tryin' to see if she was ok, she was tryin' to see if he was ok, Shoot I was laughin' too hard to see if either one of them were ok. Humans! Always a good source of entertainment at least, even if they aren't the best source for food all the time!

Reba the dog.

Long time no post

Well it's about time! My mom had computer issues, got them fixed, and never fixed my blog. Hello! Well she finally got it so I can at last update you all. The last I posted was in January. Shoot! Well, I'll try and catch y'all up. It's spring now and y'all know what that means. I blow my winter coat, drive the humans nuts with extra hair everywhere, I get to hang out outside more which is sweet! Dasher mom got a new vehicle and I was havin' fun ridin' in it till Winston came home for a visit. Shoot that dog is the antsiest dog I have ever seen in a vehicle. He all over the place. Y'all saw I put that on facebook. Well it ain't an exadgoration. I have been stepped on, kicked, even sat on so many times because the fool will not sit still back there. Dude! Find a spot and just stay there! Least I'm a good rider I mean it. Stress bucket!

Yes my April and Winston came home for a visit. They're still here. We havin' fun accept we ain't aloud loose in the back yard. Winston's super upset about that. At first I thought it was cuz of me eatin' stuff I shouldn't again, I ain't doin' that as much I mean it! But actually the reason is I think cuz Dasher dad put a bunch of stuff on the ground, and he doesn't want us messin' it up.

My Kayren came for a visit too! Sweet! I get more treats! I get them from my Dasher dad and my Kayren! Accept Dasher dad stopped givin' them to me. Shoot! It's ok. I'm keepin' count of how many he missed. And my Kayren, you still oe me 9 treats from the pictures you been takin' of me. I mean it!

Me and my Kayren got a deal goin' that for every picture she takes of me I get a treat. I hate gettin' my picture taken but if a treat is involved, I'll do it so I came up with this so the humans can get their pictures of me.

Really it's a good thing I have facebook because I been keepin' y'all posted on the big things through that. But now that mom finally fixed this thing, I can at last give y'all more of my stories.

I'm off to find more eggs and eat them. Sweet! Dasher mom hid eggs all over the house for me to find. Ha ha! I found a bunch and Dasher and Winston didn't! Shoot ma! Don't shut me away! What do you wanna find the eggs for I wanna find them!

Reba the dog.

 

Test post

Ok really ma! Why can't you figure this out! My Rachel! Help my ma please! Shoot!

Reba the dog.