Man it’s good to be back!!!

  • love2fish
    Shoreview, Grand Rapids, MN
    Posts: 1024
    November 19, 2009 at 8:40 pm #1264962

    Hello there everyone,

    I have been gone for a while from the site and now I am back. I started a new job and had 2 back surgeries in the last year everything seems to be fine now and I am ready to start doing what I love again, FISHING.

    I am also being kept very busy training a great dog. My family is the foster family for a Service dog in training, his name is Hudson and he is 9 months old today. We will be training this dog for the next two and a half to three years. Once he graduates he will be placed with a person with disabilities and is confined to a motorized wheel chair. He has to be able to do a ton of stuff. He loves picking up anything you drop, turning light on and off, getting you undressed, opening and closing drawers and doors, etc…. He will have to learn many other things as well including being able to pick up a dime (yes a dime) off a cement floor and hand it to you. The real exciting training will be teaching the big guy to do laundry using front loading machines. I hope to get him to some upcoming GTG’s so some of you will get the chance to see this guy in action. He will start coming to work with me everyday soon. Here is a picture of this working wonder. I am glad to be back and will be posting often.

    Thanks,

    John

    Brian Hoffies
    Land of 10,000 taxes, potholes & the politically correct.
    Posts: 6843
    November 19, 2009 at 8:46 pm #817106

    Welcome back!

    How in the world do you give up a great looking dog like that? Emotionally it has to be rough after all the time and training involved. Don’t know if anybody could pry my dog away and she’s dumb as a stone.

    Mike Stephens
    WI.
    Posts: 1722
    November 19, 2009 at 8:51 pm #817107

    Wow, John that is an amazing dog. Welcome back. You really must enjoy what you are doing with Hudson. Keep up the good work

    ggoody
    Mpls MN
    Posts: 2603
    November 19, 2009 at 8:52 pm #817108

    Welcome back!

    And awesome job on the dog training gig!…

    whittsend
    Posts: 2389
    November 19, 2009 at 9:06 pm #817111

    Quote:

    The real exciting training will be teaching the big guy to do laundry using front loading machines.

    I’m not impressed until he starts doing the ironing, too.

    Just kidding… Great, dog, must be very rewarding training a dog like that. Hats off to you!!!

    farmboy1
    Mantorville, MN
    Posts: 3668
    November 19, 2009 at 9:33 pm #817114

    Wow, if my dog could do that, the wife would have to start looking for a new place to live

    hoistafish1
    Long Prairie,MN
    Posts: 402
    November 19, 2009 at 9:54 pm #817120

    Quote:

    Wow, if my dog could do that, the wife would have to start looking for a new place to live

    NOW thats funny stuff there

    P.S. great looking dog!

    jon_jordan
    St. Paul, Mn
    Posts: 10908
    November 19, 2009 at 9:58 pm #817122

    Quote:

    Welcome back!

    And awesome job on the dog training gig!…

    Ditto to that!

    -J.

    northstar42
    west central Minnesotsa
    Posts: 921
    November 19, 2009 at 10:13 pm #817127

    Have you taught him to fetch walleyes yet??????

    Great job, great dog. Here’s to many a wonderful day on the water. Been there done that on the back and that is no fun for sure. Glad you are trying to help someone else.

    Jack Naylor
    Apple Valley, MN
    Posts: 5668
    November 20, 2009 at 6:23 am #817228

    hi John,
    Welcome back to IDO…
    great looking Pup, best of luck with the training.
    and hope the back to going well.
    Jack

    James Holst
    Keymaster
    SE Minnesota
    Posts: 18926
    November 20, 2009 at 6:33 am #817229

    Quote:

    Hello there everyone,

    I have been gone for a while from the site and now I am back. I started a new job and had 2 back surgeries in the last year everything seems to be fine now and I am ready to start doing what I love again, FISHING.

    I am also being kept very busy training a great dog. My family is the foster family for a Service dog in training, his name is Hudson and he is 9 months old today. We will be training this dog for the next two and a half to three years. Once he graduates he will be placed with a person with disabilities and is confined to a motorized wheel chair. He has to be able to do a ton of stuff. He loves picking up anything you drop, turning light on and off, getting you undressed, opening and closing drawers and doors, etc…. He will have to learn many other things as well including being able to pick up a dime (yes a dime) off a cement floor and hand it to you. The real exciting training will be teaching the big guy to do laundry using front loading machines. I hope to get him to some upcoming GTG’s so some of you will get the chance to see this guy in action. He will start coming to work with me everyday soon. Here is a picture of this working wonder. I am glad to be back and will be posting often.

    Thanks,

    John

    Welcome back, John. Ironically I was just thinking to myself the other day… “I wonder what ever happened to…”

    I think one of the last times we spoke was in the Gosh Dam up on Winnie was it not? Not that it matters. Welcome. We’ve kept the lights on for you.

    haywardbound
    New Brighton, MN
    Posts: 1107
    November 20, 2009 at 7:07 am #817231

    That must take a lot of patients to train a dog like that.

    By the way, how many John Bruglers could there be. Did you grow up in New Brighton?

    love2fish
    Shoreview, Grand Rapids, MN
    Posts: 1024
    November 20, 2009 at 1:06 pm #817253

    Hello Hayward I did grow up in New Brighton right by Hanson Park. I’ll PM ya

    broncosguy
    Blaine, MN
    Posts: 2106
    November 20, 2009 at 5:31 pm #817350

    ah that’s cute. glad you are PMing don’t want to hear all that stuff on here any way.

    ps glad you got your password back.

    Broncs

    haywardbound
    New Brighton, MN
    Posts: 1107
    November 20, 2009 at 6:56 pm #817376

    Got it, pm sent back just for Broncosguy!

    IDO: Better than Facebook! It has been 20+ years I’m sure.

    Back on topic…Nice dog!

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