Alda's - Breeding
  Alda homepage | Early Years | Presentation Ceremony | Breeding | Movie "Sit" |
   

2003 | Season | Alda breeding with Dylan | Pregnancy | Ultrasound | Birth | Pups 10 days | Pups 17 days |
     

| Pups 24 days | Pups 31 days | Pups 38 days | Pups 45 days | Pups 52 days | Pups 58 days |

      The Pups | Cynthia | Covina | Cairo | Chuckie | Carmel | Carob | Chardonnay | Coralee | Clarabelle |
       

8 weeks | 3 months | 4 months | 5 months | 7 months | 10 months | 16 months | Recall Training | Graduation
     
 

Cynthia at 5 months old at Stinson Beach
   

Cynthia standing in the ocean looking down at her feet
She was curious to find out where the "plop" noise was coming from when she walked in the water.
(It was her big feet.)

  

Cynthia and Marikay in the ocean up to their knees
Surf's up, water dog!
 

Cynthia at School
   

Cynthia receiving a pet on the head from a teenage blind student
Cynthia is wondering, "Are you my future handler after I finish training?"

  

Blind student is all smiles. Cynthia's body is a blurr in the photo..

 

Cynthia at 5 months
 

 

Cynthia sitting in an mall watching a butterfly on the window ledge.
Watching a butterfly on the edge of the window

  

Cynthia sitting next to orange poppy flowers in a patio
It must be springtime in California, the poppies are blooming.
 

Cynthia at
   

Marikay and Cynthia with 2 amusement park costumed people. A brown bear with a purple cape and white rabbit in a red dress.
These 3 characters kept following Cynthia around the park and she got to ride the red train (right).

   Marikay and Cynthia posing in front of a small red train with open bench seats.
 

Cynthia at San Francisco
    Cynthia sitting in front of a restaurant counter top filled with crabs.  

Cynthia looking at seal lions on floating docks
Trip to San Francisco and visiting the locals. The crabs were not very talkative (left) but the sea lions had lots to tell Cynthia about life in the city.
 

 

Website links
- Guide Dogs for the Blind Breeding Program
- Contra Costa East Guide Dog Raisers
- University of Cal article about being a Breeder Keeper
             
             
 

website updated on April 20, 2004

          

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