Great week for Silas, Not so great week for me

So as you know over the weekend we went to Fox Island. Well with all the rain we have had lately parts of the "roads" there were partially flooded. When I was driving I refused to drive through the flooded half of the road but on the way home Kevin was driving and of course had to drive very fast through the flooded part and then into the grass to drive through that flooded part as well. After that my car started to make a yucky sound, Kevin said it was just because my brakes were wet and needed to dry. Well it just kept not sounding any better and then yesterday it started to sound even worse and then today it was so bad I was convinced it wasn't safe to drive (although Kevin said it wasn't that bad and it was fine) so I took it to Crummbacks. I dropped it off at 10 and they finally called me around 4:45 to tell me they had bad news. My stabilizer something or other is broken and some sort of very important shield is completely shattered. The guy told me my truck is completely unsafe to drive(apparently they are always shocked that I'm not hurt/still alive after I bring it in since all of my repairs there have just been gut feelings and ended up being really unsafe issues) and without said major important shield my truck could catch on fire super easily. I am convinced it is all because Kevin wouldn't listen to me and drove through all that water.(I am going to ask them when they call me back.) Oh yeah and to top it off no where in Northern Indiana do they have one of the parts I need so it could take days or a week to just get the part. So until my truck is safe I have this to drive.....

Its a mini van. Eeewwwww!

Now on to Silas' great week...........

He is now an avid ebay lover too! I broke his 'diaper' bag and won him and even better one which we are impatiently waiting on to arrive. I also won him a super cool doggie life vest. Although I'm not sure what to do about it, for the size of his length, neck and weight he needs an extra large but his girth is in the large category so I ordered him an extra large but looking at it on him maybe a large would have been okay. I don't know. The vet said he still has some growing to so maybe I'll wait to decide until next summer.

More good news.......

Since the day we brought this little bundle of joy home with us I have been telling Kevin I want Silas to be a service dog. I wanted to get him search and rescue certified and therapy dog certified. (There is only one search and rescue group in Fort Wayne that I have found and the certification test is coming up in September so they weren't taking any new dogs until after all the testing was completely over.) So I got into searching for places to certify us as a therapy team and as of last night Silas has officially been accepted into two separate programs. However for both programs that have accepted us he needs to have his CGC (canine good citizen certification). The test for the CGC is in October. If he were to take the test tomorrow he would 100% pass 8 of the 10 items and possibly pass 9 of the 10 items depending on how they do the test. I am going to start working with him everyday to help him prepare for the test and don't be surprised if the next time you see us I ask you to work with him too because trust me I am going to ask you, anybody and everybody is now fair game to help him prepare. Now we need to decide which program to go with. 

Program A has accepted us into the program without the CGC. They have a 12 week course (broken up into two 6 week courses) he has to take before he is allowed to go into the active therapy training (the active training is done on location at different hospitals and places he would visit as a therapy dog) but they have allowed us to go ahead and take the 12 week course without the CGC since we are going to take it in the middle of the course and if he fails then they said he can just retake the 12 week course and test for the CGC again.

Program B has accepted him into their training program, but he has to take 3 or 4 basic obedience classes and then the CGC training classes (even if he passes the CGC) then he can automatically start the pre-therapy training without retesting into it. (He has to have all of his training done with them even the beginner puppy stuff. to be in their therapy program) This program is also more expensive but is highly recommended.