Trips to Anglo-American Schools

Sledging is great winter entertainment! And everything is much more fun if the main participants are children and dogs. This winter when it finally got warmer our Golden Retrievers visited two Anglo-American schools.Participants: Olly and Nika with Tanya Lyubimova, Efri with Elena Fedoseeva and Malevich with Tanya Charlesworth. The main reasons for the trips is to tell children about guide dogs and therapy dogs and to show what such dogs can do. Olly and Nika guided by Tanya Lyubimova have been very successful. They performed a little show: counted, “read books”, rung a bell, brought various objects. Nika also showed how a guide dog warns a blind person about dangers on the road. The program ended with the favorite part for the children – dog sledging. Both days were sunny and frosty. Olly, Nika and Efri are professionals. They know that there are a lot of children and are saving their energy. They are running slowly the full circle.Young and inexperienced Malevich started excitedly. He was ready to gallop without paying much attention that the passengers were falling out of the sledges. The laughing lost passengers have been picked up, put back on and Malevich continued. He was very active for the first day. Only by the end of the day he slowed down and got lazy. However, the next day he realized that he should save his energy.
During breaks children played with the dogs and fed them. Dogs happily run around with balls, played with each other and with children. It was a real party. We were touched that Julie-Ann Robertson and Stoyanka Leet gave us money for orphaned children. The girls raised the money selling Valentine postcards. We would like children to know more not only about dogs that help people that were not very lucky in life.We want them to know more about disable people and that it is possible to help them. The tiniest effort of every person will make someone who was not as lucky as we are much happier. We hope that there will be more meetings like this one in the future. And we really would like our Russian schools to join in! Why don’t you?