Training Internship: Day 3

Today was a rather calm day for a day at GDB. I arrived a little early because I had to turn in Mojito (I will post about that with pictures soon) as he was headed up to Oregon for his training. I spent about 15 minutes in his kennel crying my eyes out as I knew if he was career changed I would let GDB place him. I felt a little more relieved leaving him, because I knew the K3 kennel staff and I like them all very much and they assured me Mo would be well loved for the few hours he was there in the morning. I said my final goodbye and gave him a huge hug and kiss and headed to the bathroom to dry up my tears and get my A game on and get ready for another day!

I reported to K1 and explained to my mentor why I was late and she was very understanding and she quickly put my to work cleaning all the community run bones, jolly balls, and water bowls. Every Wednesday the community run toys and water bowls are cleaned and disinfected. We hurried up to finish as we had a department meeting from 9:30-12 that I was going to get to attend. I'm not gonna lie when I heard I had to attend this meeting I was not thrilled, but I am so glad I went! It was very informational and fun to be a part of! I was able to take a female black lab training dog with me to the meeting, it was good to have a dog with me during that time. The meeting went by super fast and at 12 I was sent to lunch and took an hour and went over and checked out the mall.

I arrived back at 1, and my mentor was not coming back from his lunch till 1:30 so I hung out in the K1 reading some of the reference binders, it was actually helpful info that was fun to read about. Right before my mentor was due back, the K1 CWT asked me to help dish out the food for the 3pm feeding so I gladly put down my reading and scooped food for the K1 dogs! 

My mentor arrived back and we headed over to K3 to walk his project dogs. Each CWT is assigned 1-2 project dogs and that means that 1 hour out of the day they are expected to walk the dog and access them and keep records of them, which helps breeding and training. I took a beautiful female LGX who was white in coloring and looked like a Taylor puppy. We took them out to a grassy paddock and let them run around with toys and played with them for about 20 min. We took them back to their kennels and I groomed the girl I was walking as she was shedding like crazy! I finished up grooming her and then my mentor and I headed back to K1 and I took my afternoon 10 min break.

When I got back from break it was time for the 3pm feeding of dogs who were there, which was a whooping total of 5. I picked up all the empty bowls and started washing them, then locked all the dogs in, and headed out to scoop and spray out their runs. Since there was so few dogs in K1 I was done cleaning rather early so I was sent over to K2 to help out with their cleaning and they had me scoop and spray out a quad of runs. I went over to K3 to do the same thing and they were done with cleaning so I hung out with the other training intern and we waited for my mentor to come meet us. He came and found us after he got out of his meeting and he took us to go help him clean the bathing room. Cleaning the bathing room consisted off: cleaning the hair/dust off washers & counters, acceling/spraying the floors/drying kennels/bath tubs/mats, and taking out the garbage. It took us about 20 min to clean, then we were done for the day but I still  had 45 min till I was due to leave so I was sent to the employee lounge to read the CWT reference until 5 when I was due to leave. The time went by fast and I headed home empty leash and enjoyed a delicious dinner and ice cream. 

~Katlynn