4Paws 4Curtis

                                                                       Day 9

Today was training in the classroom, we practiced with our obedience and went over everything we have learned over the last 9 days.  We practiced commanding the dogs in sit, down, heal, lap, over, touch and some of the fun stuff or the kids shake, high 5's and roll over. We did some distraction with treats, food and toys and Cadbury did awesome. It was a long day in the classroom but it was worth it because it is paying off now...

                                              Graduation Day

Even though training has been so intense and tiring we still couldn't believe that training was over. On this Morning we met Jeremy (lead trainer) at the mall for our test, our test for being able to control the dog in public by walking the mall. He checked to see if the dog would behave and how we would control the dog and then we sat at a table for 20 min in the food court with Cadbury in an under (under the table). All together the test lasted close to an hour.. I wasn't happy with the test, when we were walking around in a store Cadbury wasn't too sure about some headless manikins and then right after that 4 of the other trainers walked in (with not knowing) I walked right by them and Cadbury was scenting them. I had control of him but he wanted his trainers the ones that have been working with him for months, he is so stubborn but he also realized that I was more stubborn and he gave in. Other then the trainers and the manikins Cadbury did awesome and I thought we made a good team. While were sitting in the food court with Cadbury in a under/down a couple of people stopped and asked about him and he did awesome, he stayed in his down and I didn't have to correct him. When Jeremy came and told us that part was over he met us outside because he needed to see us get Cadbury in the Car and at the time he told us we passed.

After passing our test we went back to 4 Paws so we could get all Cadbury's papers our handler cards and of coarse sign our life away so it would all be official, but we were good with signing our life away Cadbury is so worth it. All the signing took a while, because there was 1 person doing the paper work so we were the 3rd family to get in and it took us a while to get in but that was okay because we had some time to chat with a couple of the other families. We were kind of anxious to talk with all the ffamilies because not only was that going to be the last day together but I wanted to see how everyone did on their test. YAY, EVERYONE PASSED!

This day was a VERY LONG day but it was all worth it. After everyone signed their life away we (the class) had each family get their picture taken with the Child's Service dog. We couldn't believe it we are all SD owners and already the dogs have been helping our children. We were loving it...