Hi Flora's mommy Shelly writing here. I'm sorry its been so long since I've wrote in here and this will be the last entry.
Flora left my home on October 28th to return to Southeastern guide dogs. Her health was stablized and she was put in to training. I found out today that Flora will be placed this month as a service dog with a veteran. i'm very ( Read more... )

Mommy has been very sad this past week. She says its because I'm leaving. She says the guide dog school has decided to retire me. She says I will be going back to Florida so they can help me feel better and that after that they will find me a new home. I leave on Monday. It will very different not to live with mommy Shelly.I will miss guiding her ( Read more... )

I'm sorry its been so long since I wrote in this journal. This entry will not be a happy one, but I wanted to let all of you readers know what is going on. At the end of July I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that makes my feet hurt. I was taking medicine for it which I did not like and the 13th of September I got really sick. I have ( Read more... )

 Last Friday mommy Shelly and I got picked up by a friend we see often. She took us to a place where we got on a bus. We rode on it for a long time. We got off in a place called Portland and then we got off and went into a building. A woman I'll call H and 2 small children came up to us. I was very excited to see them. I was even more excited ( Read more... )

Hi All,

Today marks one year since Mommy Shelly and I became a team. It does not feel like it’s been a year. It feels like just yesterday that I was being led in to her room. I remember the hard work we did in training getting to know each other. I remember the fun, excitement and challenge of getting to know all the new routes in my new home here ( Read more... )

I'm feeling a little sad tonight. I have another ear infection. Its the fourth or fifth one - I've lost count of how many I've had since I've been living with mommy. I hate having to get my ears cleaned and have drops put in.
I'm also having pain in my shoulders. This happened once before but now its both shoulders not just one. It makes me guide ( Read more... )

Last Friday Mommy began packing lots of things, including some of my things in to my suitcase. The next day I got in a car with 1 of Mommy's friends and another lady who I found out was very nice. We drove for a long long time. We stopped and went in to a human eating place, then drove some more. We finally arrived at a place called Twin Rocks Camp ( Read more... )

It has been a pretty boring month. At the beginning of the month we spent a night at my grandparents house and we watched another parade. At least this one wasn't as long as the first one.
I got another ear infection this month and had to take lots of yucky medicine.
Mommy spent a lot of time this month feeling sad and tired. She says its called ( Read more... )

June has been pretty low key. We go out for walks, but after the first week in June we stopped going to the ranch. Mommy says they don't give lessons in the summer. I miss it. I also miss the kids.

So here are the different things that have happened. On the last weekend of May mommy Shelly's parents came and took me to their house. Mommy Shelly did ( Read more... )

• Your name:  Flora
• Your gender, color, breed:  I am a female black lab.
• Your person's name: Shelly, or mommy Shelly, as I call her
• Your year or birth: March 2010
• Your favorite place to work:  At the ranch where mommy Shelly takes riding lessons. There's so much to see.