Met with my sister and neices. It was nice. :) Pony was better at ignoring them then last time (last time he wanted to sniff my sister). Tomorrow we will be trying to go to my councler together for the first time. My anxiety is killing me!

Does anybody have any tips?

When your service dog is more photogenic than you’ve ever been.

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Ponyboy the pitbull is sitting in a empty shed, wearing his head halter, collar, and a purple, green, white tie-dye bandana. A black leash is hanging from his halter. He has green boots on his front paws, grey on his back. He is looking past the camera to his handler, and his left lip is stuck folded under itself, while his ears are perked causing his forehead to be wrinkly. His right paw is lifted up and under himself, mid wave.

Second picture description: Seconds after the first picture. His paw is lowering now, and he has shifted his eyes from me to the treat in my hand.

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Ponyboy and I have been getting out much more often now that we have our rollator and the weather isn’t -30f out. Also, he has a new pastel rainbow bandana he is rocking- gotta show our Pride.

[Image Description: We are on the sidewalk, and this is a top down veiw of Ponyboy, you can see the wheel of my red rollator. Ponyboy is wearing his new bandana, and his blue head halter with pink and white patterns resembling abstract hearts. His ears are perked, his forehead is wrinkled, he is waving, and licking his front lips in atincipation of a treat.

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Pony rocked at chilling at a buffet style restaurant that was crowded, and did well while we were getting food. I was even able to leave him under the table when I got up to hug someone i recognized, although after about a minnuet of chatting he got up and walked out from under our table and over to lay down next to me. Oh well lol… It was the first time I’ve ever left him to do a down-stay in a public place that had people in there. It’s something to practice, but I am proud of him. :)

(Also, sorry I’ve been gone awhile. Life has been too bad to post much, and it just got a lot worse. I’m hoping coming back on here will be a bit therapeutic, but I won’t be focusing on posting too often. I do have some videos though.)

I love the service dog community’s ever evolving fashion trends. BLD was huge when I first got involved. We moved on to Purple Poodle. And those Rex Specs dog sunglasses. What’s trending now?