Year 3 - Day 195 - July 13

Look who came to visit for Friday the 13th! This is Marley. He's a certified reading dog.

(No, he doesn't read) ;)

He holds the distinction of being the only dog I've met that I actually LIKE. I think it's because he's like a giant stuffed animal and sits really still and calmly at all times. :) He really is trained as a support dog. His owner brings him to school and to the library and kids read to him. The idea is that he's nonjudgmental (Cause, you know, he's a dog) and so kids learning to read can read out loud to Marley instead of their mom  or teacher for the 400th time. Since it's summertime he hadn't been to work lately, so his owner brought him in for the day while we worked on our curriculum writing.

He's a standard poodle AND HE DOESN'T SMELL LIKE A DOG.

P.S. No, he's not named after Marley the dog. He had his name first. :)

Day 50 - February 19

 

This picture was taken looking down over our balcony/walkway that leads to our front door.  The guy in the other apartment on our floor has 2 dogs.  Rather than clean up after them, he just leaves the mess there.  This has always been the case, but at least he used to take them to the grassy area that was reserved for animals.  Now they go right here, next to our downstairs neighbors' door.  The downstairs neighbors have a 3 year old daughter.  Where is she going to play when the snow melts?  The dog poop ain't gonna melt!  Grr...

Day 31-January 31

I had heard rumor of these but thought it was a joke. Here's the proof!