First days at work

I work at the Washington State Legislature, so the CCI puppies have to go to work with me. Fantasia made quite a hit at the Legislature this week. She made many friends. She ate her lunch on the lawn in front of my building and many co-workers and friends stopped by to meet little Fantasia.

Fantasia is 9 weeks old today. Tomorrow she heads off to a puppy sitter for a week while I am in Colorado. I expect that she will grow alot in that week.

Boys Camp

To celebrate the opening of Carter Camp CCI... we invited some of the CCI pups from the local boys camp.

Camp Councelor Morris brought over Mick and Pongo as well as Mick's sister Mitzi.

One Golden and one Yellow Lab had their paws full watching the one Golden and three black puppies. But I think they all had fun.

Camp Opens

The newest Camp Carter happy camper arrived this weekend. On Friday, Camp Counselor Brianne and I drove to the airport to pick up Fantasia. Brianne was not impressed by this ankle biter and tried to get away from the sharp little teeth. Friday was a busy day of visiting people. We stopped at Jason's work to visit his co-workers, and then made a couple of other stops before we finally made it home to rest before the evening.

First order of business once arriving at home was trying on the official Camp Carter CCI uniform... Its a little big for now!

First Post

Welcome to the Blog for Carter Camp CCI. What’s with the name? Well, I raise puppies for Canine Companions for Independence (CCI) and often puppy sit other CCI pups... so sometimes my house seems like a puppy camp. Each puppy that I raise for CCI stays with me for about 14-16 months starting at 8 weeks old. Then she goes off to advance training (or Puppy College).

Puppy #8 will be arriving in 3 weeks. Her name is Fantasia. Her mother is Dara (puppy #6). We got to visit Dara and Fantasia last week.

Puppy #5, Brianne, didn't like puppy college so she came home to be a camp counselor. Right now we don't have any puppies visiting us, so Brianne only has Tigger to hang out with.