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Our 4 Paws Adventure – Training Day 2 – Bringing Her Home
As I write this, I have a beautiful black lab sleeping peacefully at my feet. Despite the way it started, today has been a long but very awesome day. We didn’t have to be at 4 Paws until 10 a.m. today...
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Our 4 Paws Adventure – Day 3 – The First Track
This morning’s training was a bit different. The class was split into two groups for search training. Wandering is hugely prevalent on the autism spectrum and Caleb is no exception. Autism-related...
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Our 4 Paws Adventure – Service Dog Training Day 4 and First Public Outing!
I so wish these two BFFs would be living closer. They are hysterical. Pretzel will be living in WVU country and April will be living in Seminole territory. I wish we could have gotten pics of them in...
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Our 4 Paws Adventure – Service Dog Training Day 5 – Tethering
It’s only been five days and I already can’t imagine life without her! This day has been so up and down emotionally. This post might be kinda short because I am so exhausted. Today was the first day...
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Our 4 Paws Adventure – Day 6 – All Kinds of Fun!
This day has just been nonstop excitement! We learned “lap” and “over” commands which will be helpful in comforting Caleb and giving him some of that sensory input he seeks. We can tell April, “lap,”...
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Our 4 Paws Adventure – Day 7 – Snow Day!
Today we practiced using just the hand signals for commands so we wouldn’t have to verbally command all the time. We also took some notes on tracking and received our Flexi Leash. It was all really...
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Our 4 Paws Adventure – Day 8 – First Bath
Everyone seemed a little off today. The kids were wound up extra tight and seemed to fall apart over the least little thing. I’ve had allergy issues all week and my RA started flaring today so I was...
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Our 4 Paws Adventure – Day 9 – First Walk of Shame
Yes. They said it would happen. But, seriously, after eight days of perfection, I just thought we were golden. After practicing the commands off leash in class and an outdoor track in which I very,...
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Our 4 Paws Adventure – Day 10 – Packing It Up!
Today was a little bittersweet. It was our last full class day. We reviewed our obedience commands, discussed any issues or concerns, talked a lot about going home and what to expect. The trainers...
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Our 4 Paws Adventure – Day 11 – Graduation!!
Because packing up everything, loading up the car, and taking our public access test wasn’t stressful enough, it took us 35 minutes to get to the mall because of a crazy traffic jam. We left Homewood...
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