SHASTA'S  PAGE

Hello:

My name is Shasta.  That's me you see poking through that little window to the left.

I am a yellow labrador retriever.  I was born in Ontario Canada at Canine Vision Canada.  I lived at that school for 7 weeks with my brothers and sisters and my mother and all her friends.

When I was 7 weeks old I was taken by a nice couple to live with them.  At  first I was really upset that I was taken from my family but I soon learned that these people had all kinds of fun things for me to learn.  I got to learn how to sit, stay, lay down when asked, not to bed (that was the hardest one for me) and to walk nicely on a leash.

I made lots of friends both in the human world and in my dog world like my foster brother.  He already knew some of this stuff that I had to learn.  I started to notice that there were some things I was learning that he wasn't learning.  There were also some times he didn't come with us when we went out.

When we did go out,  had to wear a jacket that said "Guide Dog Puppy In Training". Now I didn't know what a guide dog was but I was good when I wore that jacket.

I noticed that when I was wearing the jacket I had to be extra good.  I wasn't allowed to take food from people, sniff on the ground or at anything I liked.  and my foster Mom wouldn't let anybody pet me.  I didn't like any of these rules.

I also noticed that whenever I had the jacket on I got to go into stores, restaraunts, malls (shopping was my favorite) and even to my foster Mom's work place.  I got to ride on escalators, buses and elevators.