Meet "Endal" who was a real Celebrity along with his devoted owner and partner Allen Parton.  Sadly he has now passed on and generous as always, in retirement had time to show the new addition to the family his name is EJ (Endal Junior!) the ropes.
What an amazing legecy he has left, a very hard act to follow! So far EJ is shaping up pretty well. The picture on the right was when he arrived and Endal had no problems with him as he always knew that he was Allen's top boy!

It will take little EJ a long time to catch up, but with Endal's help in the early stages of his training to get him started, he will get there.

Below that picture is one of Endal and EJ in their working jackets but as you can see he did no yet take this too seriously and thought it was a wonderful game.

Here are just some of Endal's achievements. He received a great many awards including the  PDSA Gold Medal for Animal Gallantry and Devotion to Duty.  This is hailed as "the animals' equivalent of the George Cross".   Allen's wheelchair was knocked over by a car and he was thrown to the ground so he went into rescue mode so to speak.

He managed to manoeuvre Allen into the recovery position,cover him with the blanket from his wheelchair and push his mobile phone to his faceand get help.

All in a days work!  He was given this wonderful medal and there is a picture of him wearing it on the "Digger and Friends" page.

He was voted the UK's Coolest Canine by readiers of K9 Magizine and K9Online.com.  and also received the Blue Peter Gold badge

He went with Allen to all sorts of places, nothing stopped him, above you would see him pressing the button to open the door of a train. They used the a ramp to get on and he really enjoyed the ride. Easy accessability was so very important to them and hopefully this improves all the time.

You can also see Endal on the right trying out his hand at a bit of resuscitation, a bit puzzling really she would not wake up

Allen is now a UK representative of the International Association of Assistance Dog Partners(IAADP) there is a link to their website from the "General Dog Information" link on the left. !

Endal Junior "collars the lead" in fund raising thanks to the Clanfield Coop store, with a little help from his pals.The staff of the Clanfield's Co-op have been raising funds over the last year to buy the new recruits at Canine Partners, collars, leads
and other essential piece of equipment required in their first
few months of training.

There is also a new book telling Allen's story and of course Endal's too, which you can buy at Amazon, click on this picture of the book cover to go there. It's a great and very moving read!   And now guess what we have just heard there is going to a Movie based on the book the filming to start late next summer(2010). We are all really looking forward to that, what a story!

May I remind you to visit Endal's very own Web Site and you will see just what he could do and what the partnership with Allen meant to both of them.  The link is on the left, there are also links on the "Digger & Friends" and "Labrador Rescue SE & C Supporter" pages.   See you there!

Please go to the next page to see Allen and Endal's visit to the Imperial War Museum