While Whitney and I were training at the Seeing Eye last month, the PR people interviewed a few of us for a short one-minute promotional video. You can link to the video on YouTube, but get out your Kleenex first – it’s downright heartwarming. And be sure to watch from beginning to the very end, […]
Today Bark Magazine published a blog post I wrote about my first weeks at home in Chicago with Whitney. I start out the post describing how the Seeing Eye-dog thing is supposed to work. The blind person memorizes or finds the route, the pair gets themselves situated on the sidewalk, the blind person commands “Forward!” […]
Whitney and I have been busy the past few days here in Chicago working with Chris Mattoon, one of the superstar trainers from the Seeing Eye. In the meantime, a few of the superstars in my family have been making news: my 16-year-old great-niece Anita Sterling was featured in a newspaper story about “2012 Breakout […]
The Seeing Eye is sending instructor Chris Mattoon out tomorrow to help Whitney and me. Blog readers might recognize his name: Chris came out to help me with Harper last fall, and my husband Mike Knezovich wrote a blog post about the visit. During that visit, Chris explained that Harper’s training at the Seeing Eye […]
The email came from a veterinary student in England. Her name is Rachel Orritt. “I hope this isn’t too out of the blue,” she wrote. “I have been enjoying reading your ‘Safe and Sound’ blog and was wondering if you would be interested in guest posting for my blog.” Rachel’s note went on to explain […]