Note from September 26, 2012

Echo is spending a few days with Jean and Pan, her trainers, as I said yesterday. 

I was promised pictures and/or video (HINT, HINT, JEAN!), but I received nothing today, in terms of pictures or video.

This is all I have received, in terms of things that are pertinent to the blog:

Good news though....Echo was CEA normal for her eyes so she has no eye
problems at all with that.  She did have 2 ppm's which are two points in
the very fringe of her left eye (colored part,not the vision part) where
the pupilatory membrane (closed until the pups eyes open) didn't come away
completely.  This causes no vision problems at all.

We met with the new Trainer who will be coming on board with All American
Dogs in a volunteer status.  She is wonderfu and she thought Echo was a
doll and so smart.  Echo was sick in the car today.  She ate about 3 1/2
hours before we left.  I just found out that there are 3 other pups from
this group who are showing signs of car sickness right now.  We are
hopefull they all grow out of it.  She doesn't make sounds before she gets
sick which if in her crate in the car, you may have a hard time telling
because she attempted to eat what she threw up today. Please keep me posted
on this if she keeps getting sick ok.

Echo is supposed to come home late Friday morning.

Last night, as you probably noticed, I was going through "Echo withdrawal".  Tonight, well ...

Gimli, unlike most dachshunds I have ever had, has never really chosen a person.  Today, on the other hand, he was all about "Dad".  To a point where he emulated Echo. 

Most nights, Echo, when it is time for her to sleep, she crashes on my lap, then moves to the floor or her crate. 

Tonight, Gimli would not "crash" until he got in almost the exact pose Echo uses in my lap.  THEN, he crashed, and stayed there for several hours.

That NEVER happens.