Endal’s Successor Makes Dogs Dinner Out of First Official Engagement
EJ Endal Junior attended his first official engagement along side Gulf war veteran Allen Parton last week at the Pet Food Manufacturers Association’s annual lunch held at the very prestigious Stationers hall in London. This was our first function that we have been to since Endal left us and I’ll admit I was nervous with out my faithful old mate at my side who always just made anything possible! Traditionally every year Endal used to bark at the toast to the Queen, just one clear sharp bark and then later on during the event two barks at the thanks given to the organisers and staff of the Stationers hall.
I quickly realised that I didn’t have any need feel nervous as ten month old EJ stepped up to the plate and dutifully barked once at the toast to the queen and twice at the thanks.. a tradition taken up and conducted like a veteran. A few eyes in the room filled up, including mine and I guess Endal would have been looking down with such pride at how well his prodigy was conducting himself.
Allen and EJ
Allen said:
“EJ has grown up so much these last few weeks since the big yella fella has left us and he really is focused on what he has to do. Travelling up to the heart of London, not really the most friendly dog environment in the world, EJ behaved like an assistance dog many years older.
The train, underground and taxi just other things he took in his stride as if it was an everyday occurrence. He even put the train ticket into the newly installed ticket barriers at Waterloo station and collected it from the top of the machine when it passed out..I’ve a strange feeling we’ve been here before!
EJ is very much a puppy in training and not a fully qualified service dog but I am every day seeing glimpses of EJ’s intuitive nature, his problem solving and his thinking which is truly incredible. I’ve shed some tears over Endal’s loss but every time I turn around devoted EJ is there for me with the hankie in his mouth!”
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Just a note to readers here, puppies in training and dogs NOT trained by ADUK organizations have no right of access to taxis under the 2002 law.
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Doobie, is EJ not trained by an ADUK organisation?
What is to stop anybody just putting a jacket on a dog, an example being:
Awhile back I was in a supermarket and saw a person in an electric wheelchair with a dog with a coat/jacket on it. I wondered if it is was an Assistance Dog or a Hearing Dog so I went over for a closer look………amazingly it was a pet dog with a coat on that was advertising a small animal rescue organisation that ironically was nothing to do with dogs.
Wonder if the supermarket staff had seen the disabled person come in with the dog in its ‘jacket’ and assumed it was an assistance dog when in fact it was nothing of the sort?
Interesting about the puppies in training and non ADUK trained dogs not being allowed in to taxi’s under the law, will taxi drivers know the difference (the ones who do allow bona fide assistance dogs in their taxis?)
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