Quail at the Morristown St Patty's Day Parade...

Quail marched in the Morristown St. Patty's Day Parade today...NOT!

Every year Morristown holds a St. Patty's Day Parade and since The Seeing Eye, Inc is based in Morristown, we all get to march in the parade. But it is a monsoon out there with pouring rain and gale force winds -- the parade is rain or shine but we opted to stay home nice and dry.

So for the first time in our puppyraising career, it looks like one of our puppies will miss out in marching in the St. Patty's Day Parade. Too bad since I bought new shamrock headbands for the both of us to wear.

It's a shame to let perfectly good headbands go to waste so I put them on Harley and Quail for a photo op anyway :-) Don't they look happy to be modeling their new headgear???

I thought I'd share some pix from Anita's St. Patty's Day Parade. She had a great time. We were having a really hard time getting Anita to enjoy walking and she really didn't like leaving our property. With all the cheering and everyone telling her how cute she was at the parade, she decided that walking wasn't so bad afterall and we didn't have problems with her after that.

In the picture to the left, she's trying to get at Buddy -- Morris Frank's Seeing Eye Dog -- she doesn't seem to realize they are both statues. And in the picture to the right, there we are very tired after the parade.

Because of the timing of when we had Anita, she almost got to march in the parade the next year BUT she went into heat the day before and since all Seeing Eye puppies are not neutered or spayed, it could be potential disaster at a very public event like a parade. So we went to visit Red and Blue at the barn where she got to share a carrot with Red. She did get to march in the Woodbridge St. Patty's Day Parade which was the week before.

Trinity is visiting with us for a few days so of course, she has to share in the fun too. Doesn't she look thrilled?