Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Kelsa's new career

Kelsa has started on a couple of new career paths since she came home. This first is becoming a professional couch potato, ever since she found out she could get on the couch she doesn't want to get off.


The second is becoming a therapy dog registered with the Delta Society. First I go to a training session then she has an evaluation. Everything on the evaluation are things that she already did as a guide puppy, like not go visit other dogs, leave toys alone, not be startled by clumsy or exaggerated movements, exc. If all goes according to plan she should be a therapy dog by St. Patrick's day. Where we would visit is partly dictated by our rating on the evaluation. If we ace the test then we can work wherever we want, if we get the second highest rating then we can do read to the dogs or work in nursing homes, but probably not in a hospital. I'd like to do read to the dogs in my old elementary school, I think that would work best for Kelsa too because she's so sensitive to people's moods. I'm concerned that a lot of stressed, in-pain people (like at a hospital) would stress her too much.

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