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Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji I’m bouncing up and down with excitement because I have wonderful news to share with you all – my favourite fictional guide dog is back! His name is Garth and he’s the main dog in the Guiding Emily series by Barbara Hinske. And the exciting news is that …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji: As you no doubt realized, Mom is still away overseas. So I’m grabbing the opportunity to steal a few extra blog posts while she’s away. Anyway, as I was lying in my bed this morning, still dreaming about the mountains of food that I imagine must …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji. Today is my birthday. I’m not going to tell you how old I am because a lady never reveals her age. Well, to be honest, I’m still unsure if I should be counting in human or doggy years so I just thought I would ignore the whole …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji! I know I don’t usually write for Mom’s blog in the middle of the month, but Mom has been so busy recently that I thought I would help her out by blogging for her. After all, I am a guide dog, and my task is to help …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji. Freedom and independence are very important to us guide dogs. After all, our purpose is to give our humans a greater degree of freedom and independence to do the things they want. So I wagged when I saw that the theme of the latest ad campaign from the South …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji. I’ve told you before that I sometimes think humans do strange things. I found myself thinking that again recently when me, Mom and my friends from the South African Guide-Dogs Association for the Blind went on an adventure together. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji. The most amazing thing happened to me last weekend – I had a visit from one of my cousin guide dogs, whose Dad had human stuff to do and couldn’t take his guide dog with him. Guide dog Billy is great. He is a black Labrador, …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji! You know, sometimes life just doesn’t turn out the way you expect. I don’t think my expectations were totally crazy, do you? After all, I went with Dad to collect his race number on Friday afternoon. I was with Mom and Dad when they drove to …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji. Can you believe that Mom and I have been partnered for six years? I can’t. In some ways it feels like she has always been my mom. And in some ways it feels like it was only a short time ago that I walked into that room at the …
In many ways I feel as though my year has only just started. For some reason I seem to have lost the last two months. My brain feels as if 2021 ended with November and 2022 only really got going this month. There are reasons for this. My plans for December were derailed when I …