Sierra's Service Dog Journey has Ended...

[Ron AKA]

We were informed last week that Sierra the puppy we were raising to be a service dog (blind, assistance, or autism) was being dropped from the program. They apparantly are quite unhappy with the breeding and had a bad experience with a couple of the older dogs, neither of which are from the same breeding, but from the same breeder.

Sierra does have a bit of an attitude, and just loves other dogs, to the point where she can be hard to control and is an annoyance. With a lot of work with other dogs, she now (10 months) is much improved, but still gets into rough play with her littermates and other like minded puppies in the service dog program, if you allow it to escalate without intervention. We thought she would mature out of it, and we would be given more time, but they were not willing to take a chance on her.

So now we will be the owners of a very well trained puppy. Unfortunately some of that training, such as being able to walk on escalators, and up and down open grating stairs, etc.. will never be put to use. Too bad, as she was really good at it.

So a big dissapointment, but we do now have a very sweet puppy to enjoy...