Anita was the third puppy we raised for The Seeing Eye, Inc. She was part yellow lab and part golden retriever and just absolutely adorable. She was our petite puppy and our first female pup.
She was also our most timid pup. She was afraid to leave our property and it took a lot of coaxing to get her to go on walks in the very beginning. She was also afraid of cars, bikes, vacuum cleaners and the funniest thing...the salad spinner. The sound of the salad spinner would send her running for her crate where she just shook until we had dry salad. As a little puppy, I spent a lot of nights sleeping on the floor because she cried a lot. The funny thing is that she is also our most famous puppy.
Her first claim to fame was when she made WFAN radio's Mike and the Mad Dog show as a puppy. They just raved about how cute she was and since their radio show was simulcast on the YES Network, her picture appeared on cable tv too.
She left our home in 2008, but she recently had her next claim to fame. A letter written by the person she went to live with appeared in The Seeing Eye Guide: A Magazine for Friends of The Seeing Eye. It was a pared down letter of the one we received last year but it was still exciting to see the letter in actual print in a magazine. The entire letter appears in my blog here.
She was a sweetie...we miss her dearly but are so proud of her!
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