So it's yet another day that I desperately wish Zido was here
already. I feel awful today and I'm so tired of living in this world of
"if". "If" I'm going to pass out. "If" I'm going to make it through the
day. "If" I'm just a normal kind of sick. "If" it's all in my head. I
just pray that when I have Zido by my side, I won't have to question it
anymore because he should know. He's going to be my personal guardian
angel :)
So I'm working on the packet that I have to fill out
before I head to training! Canine Partners makes sure that you're not
just some random person that doesn't know what it means to own a dog.
Man, they test you on your stuff. We have to read 2 books and take
quizzes for them as well as watch a video and take a quiz on that. I'm
almost done with the first book (The Culture Clash) and it's really interesting. Kind of difficult to read at first, but it gives you a whole new insight into the minds of dogs.
Earlier
today, I posted on my Facebook page an interesting article that I read
that was actually written by a woman who received a dog from CPL.
It's
about the reasons WHY other people are not allowed to pet or distract a
service dog that is working. I think a lot people think that the owner
is just being selfish or possessive when they tell someone that they
aren't allowed to pet their service dog. But in actuality, if you talk
to or distract a service dog in any way, the dog isn't paying attention
to their human which could really result in bad things for the human.
For me, if you were to say "Oh hi Zido! Who's a good boy? Wanna play?",
he would turn his attention from me and could potentially miss an alert
which would be a really big problem for the distractor...
Now
these dogs are incredibly trained and have learned how to ignore outside
stimuli, but one of the major things that I have learned throughout
this process is that Zido is A DOG. Seems kind of "duh", but sometimes
we put so much faith and trust that a service dog will never fail, and
we forget that when it comes down to it, they are still dogs. They
aren't robots and they can't be expected to act like ones. That's what
we love so much about our service dogs is that they have all the emotion
and fun of a regular dog because they ARE dogs.
Alright, well I'm going to go rest so thank you for reading today
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