The K Litter is HERE!!

Congratulations to Tara (aka Mom) and Apollo (aka Dad) on these 11 tiny, squiggly, adorable pups born on May 18th. This photo was taken just one day after they joined our Israel Guide Dog Center Family.

Can you believe that they can get any cuter than this?

Just wait and see...

Izzy

Post-Pesach Peek at the P's

Here they are again, the P Litter, the youngest members of our Israel Guide Dog Center family. See how each one has a different color ribbon around it's neck so the staff can tell which is which? I have never really understood that. I mean, each one smells completely different from the others. How could anyone mix them up? Sometimes I think they put those ribbons on us just because we look so cute with them.

Rumor has it that the P Litter will not remain our youngest members for long. It seems we may soon have more pups on the way. Stay tuned...

Izzy

Why Is This Day Different From All Other Days?

Because TODAY, not only did staff, volunteers and friends get together to toast the upcoming Pesach holiday. TODAY, Yariv and Ami received their certificates (and funny caricatures too) to celebrate their becoming our first Israel-trained Mobility Instructors. Go Yariv and Ami! Congratulations to all of us!

And a happy. happy Pesach to everyone!

A Tale of Two Shepherds

First, here's the update on our friend, Zita, the German Shepherd that disappeared one fateful night in Yafo and reappeared two years later when a vet spotted her ID chip and called us. Thanks to her ID chip, she was returned to us for training and, believe it of not, she has now gone home. That's right! She has returned to the blind person she was helping when she disappeared- back to her work as a full-fledged Guide Dog after a two year break! How about that!

Ready for another German Shepherd story? Here she is snuggling with kennel volunteer Abigail Fox. Happy. Happy was happily working for a family in Beersheba when something terrible happened. Happy's owner was hit by a car and killed. Happy was uninjured but confused. Without her blind handler, she had no direction or purpose. Thankfully, Happy has been back in the kennel with us for several weeks and she is responding well to retraining. We hope to match her with another visually-impaired Israeli as soon as possible.

Coming up--- Puppy Update! Don't miss it!

Izzy

Hooray For Super Mom

Congratulations to Jinny who gave birth to eight beautiful pups just before Purim! Once her pups are big enough to fend for themselves, chances are that Jinny will go back into training and become a Guide Dog! A Mom AND a Guide Dog????

All I can say is "Bow-----WOW!!"

Izzy

Anita & Josh

Neither rain nor sleet nor dark of night, nothing stops us Guide Dog puppies from getting our training. But, now that Spring is here, we'll have plenty of warm, sunny days for work and play.

Speaking of work and play, we had to say goodbye to Anita and Josh, Young Judea Year-Course volunteers who worked with us and played with us for three whole months. They promised us they would come and visit. I sure hope they do!

Not only did they spend lots of time with us in the kennels. If you are staying in touch with us through Facebook, donating to us on-line or building your own Fundraising Page for us through Firstgiving , then you have Anita and Josh to thank. They were the ones who really go us moving on-line.

We have some new volunteers here now... but more about them later.

Izzy

Bye-bye Lisa!

Lisa, one of the nicest and most beautiful German Shepherds you'll ever meet finally fulfilled her dream of becoming a Guide Dog. Timora, our Kennel Manager, got her all prettied up and ready to go to a blind individual for home-based training. She'll be living pretty close to the Center so I hope she'll come visit and let us puppies know what it's like to "make it to the top".

Way to go, Lisa!

Izzy