A Puppy's Travels

The Aunts and Uncles puppies will be traveling soon! First, they’ll start by just traveling to different parts of the house and outside in the yard. After they’ve had their shots, they’ll start going out in public, traveling with their mother Julia to do service dog demonstrations and going to the mall.

Once the puppies are placed with their puppy raisers, they’ll go all over the place. They’ll visit restaurants, grocery stores, banks, amusement parks, sporting events, and hiking trails. They’ll go with their puppy raisers to the mechanic, hair salon, the dentist, and doctor’s office. 

On May 17, they may travel to the Highmark Walk for a Healthy Community to support SSD. (If you’d like to join them, you can sign up online.)

The puppies will travel by car, bus, train, and maybe even plane.

Once the puppies become working service dogs, they’ll accompany their person everywhere, maybe even to other countries.

And everywhere the puppies go, they make an impact on people, whether that person is their partner that they’re supporting, their puppy raiser, or another person who sees the puppies and smiles. They’re going to touch a lot of people’s lives.

So even though the puppies are still living mostly in their whelping box, we want to know how far they’ve “traveled” through the puppy cam. Leave a comment on the puppy cam or right here and let us know where you’re from. You can even suggest a place out in public for the puppies to visit. Who knows? In their travels one day, they may just stop by.

SSD Peach Pie is thankful for volunteers who travel

Some of our puppies travel a long way to become part of Susquehanna Service Dogs. We have relationships with service and guide dog organizations across the continent, and we often give and receive puppies. For example, SSD Pearl, the mother of the Gemstones litter, came to us from Pacific Assistance Dog Society, and when the Gemstones were born, little Amber went to PADS.

We have also received puppies from other organizations. In fact, our newest addition comes from Guide Dogs of Texas - but you'll have to wait until tomorrow to read about her!

SSD Peach Pie is another dog who came from PADS. This holiday season, she is thankful for the volunteers who donate their time to escort service dogs across the continent. In July, when little Peach Pie needed to fly from PADS in Vancouver to SSD in Harrisburg, PA, she was carried in the arms of a wonderful volunteer from U.S. Airways. Peach Pie is very thankful for this volunteer, who donated his time to fly her across the country.

Peach Pie also gives thanks for all of the volunteers who have driven to other states to pick up puppies. SSD Nubble, Dandelion, Daisy and many others may not have become a part of SSD without these wonderful volunteers.

Thank you so much for your time and dedication!

And we promise to tell you more about our new puppy tomorrow!