That means we would get purpose-bred puppies when they were about 8 weeks old and give them preliminary training and experiences until they were 18 months to 2 years old.
Then they would go to "college" for advanced training from Certified Guide Dog Trainers.
From 2019 to 2020 we shared Puppy Raising duty, or should I say "privilege", with 2 other Puppy Raisers with a dog named B-Mac.
Allow me the nostalgia of walking down Memory Lane.
When she lived with us she was an 18-year-old teenager and we were, well, we were definitely well into adulthood.
Seventeen years later Nang is now an adult, and we are, well, we are even older adults.
So it was fun to get to know each other when we are all adults.
It was a new experience for us to be "parents" and we jumped right in with an 18-year-old teenage girl from Thailand.
It was also a new experience for young Nang to be living away from her family, freinds and the country and customs she grew up with.
It was a year of a lot of firsts for all of us and it would be safe to say we learned, made mistakes and figured it out as we went along.
After 17 years apart we had the pleasure of reuniting, and this time in Bangkok, Nang's home town.
