Personal Milestone achieved tonight

[PRED]

thats amazing Doc, congrats to you and your wife and the crew

no end to your talents mate, you have had quite a life!

i cant think of a more perfect new career choice. heaven for you both i expect!

[Dale Hubbard]

Brilliant stuff Doc. Lexi looks sharp! Good on you.

[Gerry]

Thank you, Dale and Guy. Means so much to have you drop by and comment.

[domainaccess]

Lexi looks great, Congrats!

[Gerry]

Thank you all for the compliments.

It all about dogs and kids and together they are so cool.

If you have never seen a kid reading a book to a dog, you are missing a picture that a kodak moment can not capture.

[DomainQuay]

Lexi is beautiful!

What you and your wife are doing sounds very rewarding - congrats and best wishes going forward!

[Commerce]

I echo DomainQuay's post.

Lexi looks like a very attractive, attentive and bright dog.

Congratulations.

-Commerce

[draggar]

Yes, a little too much.

Sounds like someone has felt the warm and wet slobbery kiss of a lab - at least it wasn't a Newfie that just drank. (Or it let someone into the house it shouldn't have).

Well done. Amazing amazon. Now aim for owning a center for dog training, and be the boss.

We have a friend who did that. While his business is no doubt a complete success (he is building a huge dog training complex now) he sometimes misses just training dogs for fun.

While it can be fun to a lot of people, things change when it becomes the food on your table. (But, the rewards are far greater going about it on your own!).

I encourage everyone looking for a companion to check local shelters or rescue organizations for a dog that fits you and your lifestyle.

I'll agree, those are #2 and #3 in my book for most people (reputable breeders are still #1 but all 3 are FAR beyond BYBs, puppy mills, and puppy stores). Rescues are a great way to get a great dog at little cost.

[Gerry]

Rescues are a great way to get a great dog at little cost.

These rescue groups are really catching on in a big way. I recently met and talked to some people who got dogs from rescue groups - Golden Retrievers, Saint Bernard, and a Whippet.

Puppy mills are huge business here in the rural areas of NC and some parts of VA. One Virginia mill closed in a recent raid is the same mill shut down a few years back. The people who run these things could care less about the laws because there is too much money involved. Most were the smaller high dollar breeds, over 900 dogs seized. Many had never even walked on the ground, living their entire lives in a cage stacked on top of each other.

[Stian]

Congrats doc! It must be great working with dogs the way you do. Keep up the good work!

[Gerry]

Congrats doc! It must be great working with dogs the way you do. Keep up the good work!

Thank you.

We are looking at utilizing Lexi in reading therapy also. My focus would be on perhaps 4th through 6th grade. I will be meeting with administrators and teachers to see how we can do this. Our goal will be to help identify children with reading issues. It is a complex structure but it works.

[draggar]

These rescue groups are really catching on in a big way. I recently met and talked to some people who got dogs from rescue groups - Golden Retrievers, Saint Bernard, and a Whippet.

We fostered for malinois rescue for a few years and if we had the resources now, we wouldn't hesitate to go back to that.

[Gerry]

We fostered for malinois rescue for a few years and if we had the resources now, we wouldn't hesitate to go back to that.

It is a commitment and expense! We have been asked time and time again to foster. We already have eight dogs and if another one came along, my wife would not want to give it up!