Grand-puppy Lacinda visits.

Grand-puppy Lacinda is spending a week with us! She is from McKenzie's litter, McKenzie was from Chandra's 4th litter with Randy. It has been fun having a puppy in the house again.

New CCI Breeder Tosca II

Tosca II has been selected as a breeder. Tosca is Chandra's grand-puppy!! She is from AKEELAH and Kaelen's litter. She looks just like Akeelah and Chandra as a puppy!

All clean, thanks to Pet Food Express

I took Shawn to Pet Food Express for the self service bath. They are great about taking care of service dogs and even Shawn as a retired breeder. It only takes 25 minutes and she was washed and dried!

Shawn's Pedigree

It's always fun talking about the dogs and their pedigree's. Click the link to see Shawn's pedigree. I will be updating the page with information about Shawn's CCI breeder puppies and grandpuppies!

PUPPIES

OMSI III (x Blaze III)


Omeeka (x Blaze III)

Rhianna (x Terrell)

Akeelah (x Kittredge)

McKenzie IV (x Randy IV)



GRAND-PUPPIES:

Brady III (OMSI III x Ona) -GR

Edna (OMSI III x Perla) - LGX

Fifi (OMSI III x Dara II) - GR

Finesse II (OMSI III x Dara II) - GR

Namiko (OMSI III x Brynna) - GR

Olina (Zorba x Omeeka) - GR

Oz (Zorba x Omeeka) - GR

Tosca II (Kaelen x Akeelah) - GR

Grand-puppies!

Tonight Shawn got to see her grandpuppies Lacinda and Carlita. Lacinda is a McKenzie IV and Paxton puppy, she goes back to CCI in February. Carlita is an Omeeka and Terrence puppy and she goes to CCI on November 4th! We listened to a graduate panel tonight for big dog class, definitely made me want to raise again!

 

Update

It has been awhile since I updated! Here's a picture from yesterday at the new Pet Food Express in Sacramento. They are offering free self service dog washes this month. Shawn is looking much better after her bath!

M litter update

MILANO

MAURA

MACY III

Shawn's last puppy in Advanced Training graduated on Friday as a service dog!! So the final count for the "M" litter with Lawrence II is 3 grads (2 SD and 1 FD) and 3 happy COC's.

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I've also heard that Shawn has some new grand-puppy breeders!!
OLINA (Zorba x Omeeka) - Golden Retriever
OZ (Zorba x Omeeka) - Golden Retriever

Greek Week Fun

Shawn has had a fun week! First we went to Tahoe for Spring Break and then came home for Greek Week activities. Shawn is definitely getting a lot of attention and she's loving it! :)

Happy 7th Birthday!!!

Happy 7th birthday to Shawn!!! She has been enjoying the great weather that we've been having. She has been going with me to CSD's softball games and we've been enjoying walks in the sun :)

Chandra's legacy...

I've been thinking about how much of an impact Shawn has had on CCI. Over her breeding career she had 36 puppies. 5 puppies were chosen as breeders. 1 is a Skilled Companion (Oasis II). 1 is a Successor Service Dog (Maura) and 3 are Facility Dogs (Omari II, Ayla & Macy III) with one still in AT and hopefully graduating in May (Milano).

Here are a list of breeders that are related to Shawn:

PUPPIES:
OMSI III (x Blaze III)
Omeeka (x Blaze III)
Rhianna (x Terrell)
Akeelah (x Kittredge)
McKenzie IV (x Randy IV)

GRAND-PUPPIES:
Brady III (OMSI III x Ona) -GR
Edna (OMSI III x Perla) - LGX
Evers III (OMSI III x Perla) - LGX
Fifi (OMSI III x Dara II) - GR
Finesse II (OMSI III x Dara II) - GR
Namiko (OMSI III x Brynna) - GR
Olina (Zorba x Omeeka) - GR
Oz (Zorba x Omeeka) - GR

Rainy day pictures

The rain has been intense in Sacramento. With a break in the weather Shawn and I went outside to take some pictures. Her 7th birthday is coming up and she is doing great!

CCI..Eukanuba..Facebook and $$$!!

Eukanuba will donate a $1 to CCI for every person who"likes" Eukanuba's Facebook page, up to $75,000!!! Check out the page and share with friends, this is a great thing for CCI!!

A Thanksgiving update!

We spent Thanksgiving in Palm Springs and it was so nice! The weather was perfect and everyone there is so dog friendly. Shawn got to go to our favorite art gallery, CODA. She was also a great road trip partner :)

Maura - Successor Service Dog

Maura (Lawrence II x Chandra) has graduated as a SSD. Here are some pictures that were sent to me for the blog :)

CCI Dogs having fun!!

Yes, CCI dogs get to have fun!! :)

Grand-puppy update: Lacinda

Here's an update from Lacinda's (Paxton III x McKenzie IV)  puppy raiser!

"We took our new puppy Lacinda (McKenzie x Paxton) to graduation this past week. Three different people that I had never met before, including one of the CCI trainers, stopped and said "is that a Chandra puppy?" Nope, but we proudly told them she is a grandpuppy!"

November graduation success!!

I am happy to report that Chandra's puppy Maura from her last litter with Lawrence II has graduated as a Successor Service Dog (SSD) in the NC region. Maura was the brown collar puppy and Milano's sister.

It was also a big weekend for grandpuppies!!

NC: Donner and Dreamer graduated (OMSI III x Sashi), Essie II (OMSI III x Pearla).
SW: Brooke II, Blossom & Bayou (Alijah x Omeeka).
Dutch & Dugal (OMSI III x Sashi)
Eugenia II (OMSI III x Pearla)

Still waiting for results from NE and NW, I will update the blog once I get a total. Overall it was a great weekend for Shawn's puppies and grand puppies!! We are so proud of all of the !!

Family photos

Wanted to share some family photos for those who are new to Chandra's blog.

Chandra was born on 3-30-04 to GDB Natalie and CCI's OMSI. Chandra was born at Guide Dogs for the Blind and was the only puppy to come over to CCI, her Guide Dog name was Parma and she was one of 9 puppies. Many of her siblings went on to be Guide Dogs. I have a shutterfly site with pictures of Chandra growing up, http://www.chandracci.shutterfly.com/

Enjoy!

Day at the River

Shawn and Jazz had a great time at the river!! It was the first time Jazz went swimming and she loved it, Shawn is a pro and showed her how it's done :)

Grand-puppies at puppy class!

Tonight I went to puppy class with Shawn and saw 3 of her grand-puppies!! After class we took a family photo.

Here's who we saw tonight:
Cowan (OMSI III x Zoelle)
Carlita (Terrence x Omeeka)
Trapper (Kaelan x Akeelah)

Graduation update

Last week was a great week for Shawn's puppies and grand-puppies. Her last litter for CCI turned in, Milano and Makia II are back at NW. Macy III is in SW and Maura and Mica are in their 2nd semester in NC.

OMSI III had puppies turn in and 2 graduates!!!

Navarro (x Brynna) and Yaston (x Ember III) both graduated as a Skilled Companions! Congrats to everyone involved!

Here's a list of OMSI's puppies who turned in for advanced training:

Brady, Bonita, Bodega and Brock

Ona's pups:

Bodega, Bonita, Brady, and Brock (SW)
Bijou (NE)
Brianna (SE)

Halor's pups:
Laurie & Locke (NW)
Lovey (SW)
Lillith & Louie (NC)
Lupe & Leah (SE)
Loralee (NE)

Dara's pup:
Flannery (NW)

California State Fair

Today CCI had a booth at the State Fair. Milano and Shawn hung out and did what they do best, sleep and let people pet them! :) It was a great day informing the public about CCI dogs and the great things that they can do. Shawn showed some of her advanced commands, a crowd favorite was when she picked up my keys for me. It was really nice for Shawn to get to go out to this event, I know she liked getting out of the house! Milano was awesome, I think she's going to do very well in advanced training :)