I am thrilled to announce that Astrid was released from professional training and is home now! It's a little bittersweet to know she is not going to be a service dog but we knew this was coming. She has never been interested in working and has shown signs of being hard to motivate and disinterested during professional training.
She was in a team training session from Monday to Wednesday and she was just too hard to get to do the tasks asked of her, which is not what you need in a service dog. She knows "how" to do them - she just doesn't want to. I know that in the back of her mind, she was always wrestling with wanting to go back to fetching, swimming, boating and camping. And now she gets to have that life!
She is spending a few days with us to de-compress and then she will be spending a few weeks with her breeder caretaker while we get the puppy's toe healed.
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