Recently, the DOJ proposed some rather alarming revisions to Titles II and III of the Americans With Disabilities Act. These changes include:
A new definition for service animals;
A significant weakening of the readily achievable barrier removal requirement for public accommodations;
A significant reduction of elements required to be accessible in state and local government facilities;
An exemption for [...]
Yara and I had so much fun this past weekend! [Note: Very lengthy and image-intensive post to follow. Big thanks to Patty, Tom, Raechel, and James for sharing all their photos!]
I’m indulging myself in a bit of ego-stroking today, but I think it’s well deserved. And since technically I’m stroking Yara’s ego, you can’t fault me too much.
I mentioned to my boss today how I was somewhat apprehensive in bringing Yara with me to my interview. Memory failed us both and we couldn’t recall if [...]
Yesterday, my mother, half-brother and I went out to a local Chinese restaurant to celebrate his birthday and I was quite shocked when the owner came over to me asking for my “dog card.” Through some amazing stroke of luck foresight, I had taken the card out of the depths of my wallet and stuck [...]
This article was recently forwarded to me in an email:
Ping Yali, China’s first paralympic champion with vision of a mere 0.05, has been in a low mood recently as she cannot apply for a license for Lucky — her guide dog.
Lucky, the first ever professional guide dog working in Beijing, entered Ping Yali’s life early [...]
The weather this week has been so mild, it’s awesome. Today, again is supposed to be around the forties, but very rainy. It started raining sometime last night and is already quite wet out.
The injustice of the weather is probably my fault in Yara’s opinion, but regardless she’s taking the rain in the same manner [...]
Yara’s new thing with food is to remind me every five seconds while it soaks that she would like her food. She paces around the house the entire time it soaks and will come up to nudge me with these sad eyes. I can just hear her little doggy mind saying, “Hey, Mom, my dinner’s [...]
Yara has a mallard duck toy I got her for Christmas that has a noisemaker in it to quack. Except it sounds more like a whoopie cushion. Right now she’s running around the house making it “quack” and I’m having this mental image of a stampeding horde of flatulent dogs tearing around my house.
In other [...]
Today’s high was 63°F; it was awesome! Yesterday was in the fifties and it’s not supposed to drop below 30 before next Monday (when it’s supposed to snow).
Megan called today to let me know that Tommy will be stopping by Thursday morning for my first follow up with Yara. I think it’s supposed to rain, [...]
I’ve come to believe that when Yara was reading the breed standard, there must have been some pages stuck together that overlapped her onto the Labrador page. Granted, she’s not exactly Dolly 2.0, but I have to say now that she’s settled a bit I’m noticing she’s very “lab-like.”
I’ve been giving her some playtime when [...]
I know in my last post I promised that I’d be back with many an update and photo after the holidays, but things have just been far too hectic and crazy to sit down and write everything out. All in all, though, everything has been pretty good and I’m glad to finally be on an [...]
Today is a momentous day because Yara ate all of her breakfast this morning!
That is all.
I think Yara is trying to drive me insane tonight. She’s fine so long as she’s not anywhere near the front door. She’ll lay quietly and chew on a bone or contentedly bat a toy around or even snuggle up close to me. But the second she gets up for any reason she inevitably heads [...]
There are a fair number of things people have done to me and/or my dogs that are greatly annoying. People pet the dog even when I very politely request they not. Some try and feed her1 regardless of my pleas. Others still are just plain rude or inconsiderate. However, in my very humble opinion, the [...]
As the only somewhat interesting thing I can report on regarding Yara is that she’s spent the whole morning in my office driving me insane with the whining thing, I thought I’d instead bore you with my ramblings write about some things that have recently been on my mind.
Nearly two years passed from the day [...]