Training Internship: Day: 4

I arrived at 8am in K3 and was quickly sent out to accel/spray the runs which took me a good 20 min. I came back inside and helped a CWT get ready for the recall coming in Saturday, which consisted of making kennel tags, move dogs around & their tags, watch "play-dates"with potential dogs that could be room-mates to free up runs for recall dogs. It was now time for the daily 9:30am CWT meeting which was short and brief and I came back to K3 and folded laundry and started a new load. 

Morning break was now here and I took it with two CWT's and another training intern in the employee lounge, it has been nice working with so many people and eating lunch/taking breaks with them because we all talk and I have learned so much from them like why they started working at GDB, how they found out about it, why they love their job, their personality's, etc. Our break quickly ended and we all headed back to K3 as dogs were waiting for us to run. We took out a quad of dogs and did community run with them and even set up the pool! One dog was hilarious, he kept going in the pool and laying down in the water and chewed a bone. We did community run for about an hour, put all the dogs away and locked them inside their kennel run. Next we handed out enrichment which consisted of large Kongs filled with food and peanut butter all frozen, or frozen kibble in ice. All the dogs love kennel enrichment time! After all the enrichment was handed out it was lunch time! We all headed down to the lounge and had a great time eating lunch together. 

Lunch always go by way to fast! Before I knew it we were all walking back to K3 to collect enrichment and let the dogs out. I got to be in charge of washing the Kongs and re-filling them with kibble and peanut butter and sticking them back in the freezer. I really enjoyed making the enrichment. Next, I got the task of taking K3's food cart and bins to the kennel kitchen and refilling all the food. I came back and hung out and talked with the CWT's for awhile and then it was time for afternoon break. I went & refilled my water, went to the bathroom and ate a quick snack before I was due back. When I got back all the food was scooped out in bowls and it was feeding time, the dogs favorite part of the afternoon! Of course all the dogs eat their food in about a second and the bowls are collected and I washed all the bowls then locked the dogs in and headed out to scoop and spray out runs. I finished and let the dogs out and headed over to K1 to help scoop/spray runs and after that my day was pretty much over. I left about 30 min early which was nice! 

~Katlynn