Bubba Tails

By Patricia L. Fletcher

NOW INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK - A delightful Christmas tail... 'Wish of the Wee Golden One' is about a young puppy and her adventures with Santa Paws.

Bubba Tails is a wonderful story about the journey a dog takes when learning to be a Seeing Eye Dog.

Bubba Tails from the Puppy Nursery at The Seeing Eye Written by Patty L. Fletcher Told by, King Campbell Lee - The Seeing Eye Dog AKA Bubba
Fall 2017

In this magical and love filled tail, King Campbell AKA Bubba travels to the puppy nursery at The Seeing Eye to help ready a group of puppies who are just about to embark on the fabulous journey of learning to become Seeing Eye dogs. Just as he is about to finish his tail, a wee pup becomes very frightened of all that lies ahead, and one frightfully stormy night she runs away! Will King Campbell hear the urgent call from the puppy nursery in time? Will they find her and save her so she can fulfill her destiny?

The use of Tail instead of Tale for story and Magik instead of Magic is intended for these short stories. A great play on words from King Campbell

• Language: English
• Publisher: Patricia L. Fletcher
• Release date: Oct 5, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370062119

Patricia L. Fletcher

About Patty L. FletcherMarch 2022Patty Fletcher is a single mother with a beautiful daughter, of whom she is enormously proud. She has a great son-in-law and six beautiful grandchildren. From April 2011 through September 2020, she owned and handleda black Labrador from The Seeing Eye® named King Campbell Lee Fletcher A.K.A. Bubba. Sadly, after a long battle with illness on September 24, 2020, King Campbell went to the Rainbow Bridge where all is peace and love. In the summer of 2021, Patty journeyed back to The SeeingEye® and on August 5, 2021, she returned home accompanied by a three-year-old bouncy black Labrador golden Retriever named Chief Blue.PATTY’S BLINDNESS...Patty was born one and a half months premature. Her blindness was caused by her being given too much oxygen in the incubator. She was partially sighted until 1991, at which time she lost her sight due to an infection after cataract surgery and high eye pressure. She used a cane for 31 years before making the change to a guide dog.WHERE SHE LIVES AND WORKS...Currently, Patty lives and works in Kingsport, Tenn.She’s the creator and owner of Tell-It-To-The-World Marketing (Author, Blogger, Business Assist), The Writer’s Grapevine Online Magazine and the creator and host of the Talk to Tell-It-To-The-World Marketing Podcast.WRITING GOAL...Patty writes with the goal of bridging the great chasm which separates the disabled from the non-disabled.HOBBIES...Patty’s hobbies include reading, music, and attending book clubs via Zoom.FAVORITE TUNES...Some of her favorite types of tunes are classic rock, rhythm and blues, and classic country.FAVORITE READS...Patty enjoys fantasy, science fiction, and books about the supernatural. She loves books by Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Norah Roberts, and many more. Some favorite books include Norah Roberts’ Hide Away, Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series.SPIRITUAL FAITH...Patty describes herself as a spiritual Walker. She says she knows both Mother Goddess and Father God and embraces all they have to offer.CONTACT...Email: [e-mail]

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Bubba Tails

from the

Puppy Nursery at The Seeing Eye

Told By, King Campbell Lee Seeing Eye Dog AKA Bubba

Spring and Summer 2017

Patty L. Fletcher

Copyright Patty L Fletcher 2016

Legal Notes THE SEEING EYE® and SEEING EYE® are registered trademarks of The

Seeing Eye, Inc. See: www.SeeingEye.org

Published by Plaisted Publishing House Ltd

New Zealand

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Book Cover Painting by

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Illustrations inside book

Hagan Plaisted

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Dedication

I’d like to give special thanks to…

All who breed, and raise Seeing Eye dogs.

And to our Trainer Drew, without whom we would

not have been together.

It is our greatest wish that the telling of this story raises awareness, and funding for the breeding, raising, and training

of these most magnificent beast.

I dedicate Bubba Tails from the

Puppy Nursery At The Seeing Eye to…

Retiring Senior Instructor Drew Gibbon, his wife, Peggy Gibbon of the breeding program, and to all the wondrous staff and volunteers who make this most magickal and ancient place possible.

May The Seeing Eye remain strong forever!

Contents

The Journey Begins

Learning to use Team Power

The Runaway

Trip into the Big City

Party, Plane and the Big Tall Stairs

Back at The Seeing Eye

Wish of the Wee Golden One

Author Bio

History of The Seeing Eye

Extra Information on the Seeing Eye

Bio for King Campbell A.K.A Bubba

Please NOTE… In the short Christmas story at the back of this book, some of the words used have different spellings ie. Magickal/Magical, Fur/For, Tail/Tale. They are not mistakes!!

The Journey Begins

All the wee pups gathered round. Their mothers helped to settle them in and then drifted back to let the king tell his tail. They knew it was time for them to know. The large black Labrador sat quietly waiting for them all to snuggle up close and get quiet. When all was silent and you could hear nothing but the wind blowing softly through the trees outside he began to speak. His voice gentle and deep. His eyes were kind and shown full of love in the flicker of the glow of the nightlight, shining through the darkness. He was rugged and very handsome. His fur shown black and beautiful. All the pups longed to grow up and be just like him.

Hi, my name is Bubba, well, Bubba is the nickname made of love that my human mother gave to me. My real name is King Campbell-Lee, Seeing Eye Dog. I have come here today to tell you a story. A story of an ancient magical place called ‘The Seeing Eye.’ Now, many times when ancient magical places are told of, the stories are not real, but this story is real and I am a real fur sure ‘Seeing Eye Dog’ telling it to you. So, let us begin. There are lots of things for me to tell you, and the sun will soon be coming up and my human mother will be awake. She must not find me gone; else she will be lost and afraid. Something I must tell you though is this. I was not always a king. It was not until my mother loved me that I became so.

A long, long time ago, when I was very small you know, I was taken from my dog mommy and given to a family. I thought I would stay there. I thought they’d be my forever people, but that was only the very beginning of my journey. I had many people there to love me, and they all taught me lots of neat things. They helped me to learn to sit and come. They helped me learn to lay down and to rest—that means to stay. They helped me to learn to go into big stores; ride in cars, planes, and trains, and to not be afraid. They helped me to learn how to lie quietly in places to eat, and while watching plays at the theater, and just all sorts of neat things. These neat people even took me on all their vacations. I tell you I couldn’t imagine a better life than the one I had with them, but turns out I didn’t even know the half of what was to come. Now, all this time, my family had been working with trainers. Trainers are very wise humans who teach dogs to use their different powers.

The puppies gasped.

A wee golden puppy spoke up shyly. Powers? We have powers?

King Campbell smiled. "Oh! Yes, all of us have powers. Some have powerful noses and can sniff out bad things or people, or find lost ones. Those dogs grow up to work with Policemen, to do things like hunt down bad humans who have broken the law, or to help when small human pups are lost. Some have powers of direction though, and that is the kind of dog a ‘Seeing Eye Dog’ is. A Seeing Eye dog’s whole reason for being, is to make absolutely certain that humans who are blind can get to and from all the places they need or want to go without being harmed by things like stairs that could make them fall, or car monsters that might come roaring by when they’re really supposed to be sitting still."

One day the family I’d lived with all this time began to talk about a special trainer I was going to go away with to a place called ‘The Seeing Eye.’ I did not want to do this. I wanted to stay with my family. I loved them. We even had a beautiful cat. The family who would raise me had gone out and gotten a wee kitten just the same age as me, so I would

know how to live with a cat without frightening or hurting it. Try as I might now, I can’t remember her name. I remember we grew up together, and we were great friends. We played many games of tag and hide and seek together, and there were many nights when she would sleep on top of my crate. I can still remember the sound of her purring. I did not want to go, but one day I had no choice. I was taken away and I would never see those people again. I wanted to whimper. I wanted to howl, I wanted to bark and bark, but still, I had to go. When I got to this place—’The Seeing Eye,’ everything was strange to me. I lived in what was called a kennel, and with lots of other dogs. Now, these dogs had all had families like me, and they had all been taken away from them like me, so they all understood me and how I felt. I was very very sad, but there was nothing to do about it. You see us doggies we don’t get much of a choice. The only way at all ever that we can say we don’t want to do this work is to simply refuse to do so when asked, and I have to say that once I got started I liked it. Now, when I got to this place called ‘The Seeing Eye,’ like I say things changed lots. I had to give up living in a house, and having lots of people to play with, and pet me. I had to give up sneaking onto furniture and laying on people’s laps