Just popping up briefly to say Happy New year to all our friends here. Not on so much but still think of our friends here. Photo of Uri blonde lab x ret and Lennie, black lab, sat in the back of car with the words Happy New year 2026.
Mum qualified with my new brother Lennie last week. We are bonding well !! He has taken the load and now I can enjoy retirement properly . Although still doing ambassador work 😂
ALT Black lab Lennie in harness next to a black guide dog floor dog
ALT Black lab Lennie in the park
ALT Lennie and Uri in the back of boot with muddy paws
ALT Lennie using Uri as a cushion with his head on Uri's back
Uri vet report:
I had two teeth out this week and the rest polished. I was brave and after a few sleepy days after the anesthetic I got a run in the park!! Feeling better after a few days I am back on hard biscuits . Although I rather liked dog biscuits soup !!
Put it this way the reindeer are refusing to work this year. So Santa asked us Welsh @guidedogs to step in and save Christmas!! I know it's moonlighting but we were seduced by payment in carrots. So leave extra 🥕 🥕 out for us on Christmas eve please !!
ALT Six guide dogs with Santa Infront of a Christmas tree 🎄
Don't know why mum was laughing when telling me dry after a very wet walk today 🤔
Photo of Uri with a towel over him that looks like a bath cap around his head
This is my last week as a working 🦮. Next week I am retiring as mum has decided I deserve a good retirement after a difficult year of health issues. But even my last 🦮weeks I've done a school talk, met a group of Beaver scouts and supported mum at @guidedogs tea party event .
ALT Uri in front of a large group of Beaver scouts
Met with some @guidedogs friends to travel on a special "dog bus" to explain vi issues travelling on buses to staff. Everyone was lovely @Cardiffbus . They listened to the humans. Irony being when we got our usual bus home the audio wasn't working 🙈🦮 #BlindProblems 😕
ALT Line of guide dogs and owners queuing to go on bus
@Keir_Starmer blind peoples access needs at bus stops in cycle lane schemes has been systematically ignored over the past 10 years, leading to blind people being locked out of using their bus services. Will you change this & put an end to this discrimination please?
@UriGuideDog wasn't very impressed to have to work on his 8th birthday . But I wanted to complete my art work before the term ends. I will make it up to him 😅
ALT Uri with card and gifts
ALT Painting of a woman in science based on Marie Curie oil on paper