New Addition -meet Charlie

[purplepennyhunter]

No he doesn't get to go out if the weather is hotter than mid 30's. It's one of the rules! But because he is special he can get dropped off at the entrance to the shopping plaza and we can get into all sorts of mischief inside. The ladies at the sushi train restaurant just love us.

At present Charlie is being considered for their breeding program as he's got the best hips around so he may have another shorter term job prospect before he's trained to be a guide dog. We'll have to wait and see.

[Nevol]

Wow, a hippy-hippy doggie.  Go Charlie, go!  2 careers in one little pooch. :good:

[JeffH]

Obviously a hip dysplasia free candidate for a dual career. Labs are prone to that (basically a genetic condition) and arthritis.

[Nevol]

How's Charlie doing?

[markn]

How's Charlie doing?

He's still here with us.  Next week he's going to a reproductive vet clinic to , uh, give a donation with the eventual aim of producing mini Charlies.  Here he is on the bus last week.

   

[gnome]

Charlie you stud, looking good
Looking abit dog tired there.

[robbiegal]

If he is a working dog then why does he think he's on the front yard just chilling!

[ausjack]

OMG look at how much he's grown :give_heart:

[purplepennyhunter]

All Charlie's brothers (Clark and Clancy) and a sister (Cyndi) have gone into formal guide dog training. One sister is being kept for breeding to have little baby Coco's. Charlie has met with the ladies and left some samples in the freezer for potential future use. He's been de-sexed but had some complications from the surgery (should get some stitches out today) so bonus for us we get to spend Christmas with our Charlie boy! He'll be at the coin show in 2 weeks. Our boy will start training in January with Operation K9, the joint RSB/RSL program teaming assistance dogs with returned soldiers. At this point he'll be leaving our care. Here he is below coming home from the Vet 2 weeks ago.



It looks as if we'll be getting a little beige Christmas present with 4 paws. One of these pups is coming home with us mid-December!

[Unicorn]

Geez PPH, I love your new HMV car stereo, complete with sub-woofer!


.... I was going to say that it may have been one of the new state of the art "Sit-Nav" systems, complete with Satellite Dish-licker, but I thought better of it ......

... ooops, pressed Post Reply.
PS: Charlie looks great and I bet you can't wait for your new puppy. Such a lovely thing to do PPH & Mark.

[ausjack]

Excellent work PP and Mark. He doesn't look too happy but then I don't think I would if I had that done :shock:
But he is looking really good and good luck with the new addition

[autocoupler]

At this point he'll be leaving our care.

Will probably be sad to see him go, so best to think of the great job you've done with him, not to mention the joy of a new arrival :good:

[ausjack]

Also how he'll help someone that needs it

[purplepennyhunter]

Charlie has a new playmate! 8 week old pure labrador guide dog puppy 'Maisy' has come to stay with us. She's a lovely little girl and Charlie is so gentle with her.

[Nevol]

Aww gee! She's lovely! :yahoo: