#Read A Book Day with Angel Shiloh

Angel Shiloh here tue-day

I flew down frum the Rainbow Bridge tue-day cuz

even up there I hear'bout 

Ranger'z Wacky Holidayz

Well there iza speshal Wacky Holiday in

September that I just hadta show up fer-

Read A Book Day

Az a therapy dog, I wuz also able tue b a pawt of the 

Reading Education Assistance Dogs

program that held readin'classes fer

kiddoz at our library.

Sumtimez I even went tue a real skool

I just loved bein'with the little kiddoz so 

me an'mom cood help'em lern tue 

read better.

Ok - gotta git bak tue the 

Rainbow Bridge-

there r lotza little kiddoz waitin'tue

lern tue read better.

Shiloh here

March iz MY barkday month.

I know - gittin'kinda late start butt

mom sed that wuz her fault, sooooooo

she iz gonna let ME due sum of the postins' 

ALL BY MYSELF intue the next month tue/

I made shure tue git that in writin'cuz u'al 

 know how your assistantz can b sumtimez.

Anywayz, me'n mom r off tue the library in a 

couple of hourz so I will c u'all later.

       

More of my beagles

Have to add a little about my little girl Beagle before we all head for bed. Shasta (Tess's Sparkling Shasta) is my little Beagle girl who turned 17 months old yesterday, 3-8-08. She is on her way to becoming my 2nd therapy dog - Beagles really do make some of the best visiting therapy dogs. Last year, Shasta successfully graduated from basic obedience but due to my finances, we were not able to continue until now - she is quite smart and we are now working on intermediate obedience classes. I hope to be able to complete our evaluation for therapy dog this fall - after she earns her Canine Good Citizen standing.

Back to Shiloh a bit - since he really is the one who started my love affair with the Beagle. Besides being a visiting therapy dog (we are a Pet Partner team through Delta Society), a little over a year ago, I participated in a day-long seminar so that we could qualify as a Reading Education Assistance Dog team or R.E.A.D. Shiloh and I (there are also other Pet Partner's/R.E.A.D.) go in to our city library where young children can take turns reading to the dogs. This method has been proven to aid in a child's reading development. More on this later - time for bed now.