Today we were able to attend church with our dogs. 10 of us chose to go: 4 Catholic, 1 Baptist, and 5 nondenominational. I joined the latter group as I have attended that church during both of my prior two classes. Even in Church there are lessons for the dogs. The sitting and standing routines are new to them and they want to get up and get ready to go when we move. Soon, though, they will become familiar with the order of a church service and lie quietly throughout. They all did very well today. We left right after breakfast and traveled the 12 miles to the town of Chester.
The instructor who went with us said that she saw a black bear running across the road in front of her car last week and says she has seen deer, coyotes, possums, and other animals. It is very wooded along the route to the church.
We returned about 11:15 and parked the dogs quickly. My instructor took two of us to town where we practiced escalator work again. We then visited the Morris Frank statue in the Green in the center of town. I thought it was fitting to have Trinity’s picture taken along side the first team that started the guide dog movement in the United States and the Seeing Eye school itself 81 years ago.
It was lunch time when we returned to campus, 1:00 p.m. on Sunday. After lunch, I worked on clicker training teaching Trinity to target my new location in the dining room. This was under the watchful eye of the instructor. She targeted my chair much better when we went to the evening meal than she had done previously.
There were no visitors for me this week and I spent the rest of the afternoon resting, reading, and talking on the phone. Before long, it was time to feed and park the dogs again. This was followed by dinner. The other half of the class had massage training and the rest of us had free time until the last park of the day at 8:00.
Tomorrow it is forecast to be very hot again. We’ll see what things they have in store for us on our last Monday of training.
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