Josh's SOS #5

Week 5

  This week was an unusual one for myself. This week I had to deal with the sadness of putting a dog down. Bizz, a 13 year old border collie who belonged to Jerri Carter, owner of the rescue. Jerri had Bizz for a long time, I personally only got to see her every now and then, she was a great dog, i could tell. Bizz was living with a friend of Jerri's, Jan. Everything seemed fine with her until one morning she was found on the ground unable to walk or eat. That's when the decision was made that for her own well being, we had to put her down.  Her suffering from seizures got the best of her on this one. She will be remembered.

As the week continued I had to get my mind off of Bizz and continue with my job. On this week I continued my training of Raider and Tyler. Raider, my own dog who is a white and brown/redish caddle dog mix border collie and Tyler the service dog I was training for the week, a black and white border collie. Raider has a promising future with agility, he is only 3 1/2 months and he is picking up quicker than any dog I've ever seen at his age, everyone at the rescue is extremely impressed on fast he is learning everything. I am a proud owner, if this continues I might enter him in agility contests once he's good and old enough to compete. Tyler, is the service dog I trained for the week, his purpose of training is to become an emotional companion as he is a great friend. Very sweet dog.