Sagira's 3rd Visit

Sagira did her third hospital visit today. Things were going much better until about half way through our shift. An employee didn't like dogs and scared Sagira on purpose. I don't know what kind of person gets enjoyment from causing an animal stress, but she sure did a nice job. Sagira was much better today until the lady decided to stare Sagira down and stomp her feet really loudly at her. Sagira of course backed up from the lady and barked, which we had to give her a correction for. I just don't understand people. If you don't like a dog, then ignore her. Must you really try to frighten her?

Other than that, things went really well. Sagira actually relaxed enough and laid down in two of the patients rooms with them. I think she will get the hang of this eventually.

Picture of the day is her after we got home from her visit. And Starr as well, what a spoiled dog, not only sleeping on the couch, but has to have a comforter to make it even softer.

Assisted Living

We just got back home from taking Sagira to an assisted living facility. She did much better there because other therapy dogs were there as well. She was having a ball with her doggie friends. Everyone said how cute she was. We talked with the residents. One of the gals just had a birthday and turned 100. Amazing!

Sagira has a new therapy dog boyfriend that kept following her around. It was a little Shizu and his name was Jimmy. He had the hots for Sagira, it was cute. :)

Sagira has a boo boo

We were outside cleaning up dog poop since the snow has finally melted. Sagira was running and playing like any normal day. She was extremely muddy though since the yard was so soft. We look at her and notice that she is bleeding under her eye. It looks like she scraped herself on something and tore off her fur and about 5 layers of skin. We immediately stopped what we were doing. Took her in and bathed her. We put some peroxide on the area and put some neosporin on it. I hope it doesn't leave a horrible scar. I feel so bad that this happened and don't even know what she did to cause it. :(

2nd visit

Sagira went to the Hospital for her second time yesterday. It was a bit more stressful on her than the first. As soon as we walked in the door, the cleaning lady was running the sweeper on the entrance carpets. So that scared her right off the bat. We then signed in and walked to the service elevators. A group of people were coming down the hallway with a person in the hospital bed, so we turned her around, placed her against the wall to protect her and made her sit. We petted her and tried to keep her calm so she couldn't really see what was coming down the path. After that we went up on the floors. She was still a bit shy. She barked at one of the doctors. Not sure why, but we gave her a correction for that. After that she did well. We got to all three floors and had about 10 minutes left so we took her into the ER waiting room. Everyone loved her and always comments about how pretty her eyes are. Hopefully her third visit will go better.

After a job well done we took her to the dog park to let her play. It was still snow and ice covered so we didn't stay long. I didn't want her paws to get to cold. But she loves going to the dog park.

My nieces also came over the other day. Which is good for Sagira since she normally isn't around a lot of little kids. Kena fell in love with our Weimaraner Starr and now says she wants a dog at her house. They are to cute. :)

So cold

Okay, okay...enough with the cold weather. BRR. Come on spring time.
Sagira on the other hand is loving all the snow. She would stay outside all day if we would let her.

Agility

Sagira is graduating from her agility foundations class. If she passes this class she will begin Level 1 agility in just a few short weeks.

I am also trying to teach Sagira how to smile on command. She will smile when she is super happy to see someone. Now the trick of trying to teach her to do it when we tell her to.

Busy day

We have been running around all day. We went to Pet People with Sagira and Starr to get Sagira a traffic lead for when we do her therapy dog visits. We also ran to Petsmart. Some guy in line kept staring at us, so when we went down an isle he followed us and asked what kind of dog Sagira was. He said he thought we had a Coyote on a leash in the store. Umm...okay? He told us how beautiful she is and his girlfriend asked to take a picture of Sagira. Funny thing is, this isn't the first time people have done this. A guy at the dog park was leaving (in his car driving away) when he saw Sagira. He pulled over and came up to the fence and started taking pictures of her. It is nice to know that we have a unique looking dog and she is such a sweet girl. I also forgot to post her video from when we first got her and Starr dog boots. It was really funny to watch them with them on. Good think we have her used to hers because they will protect her feet when we take her in the hospital as well.