Quincy, from Polish straydog to Dutch service dog

Oh Sas, I am so happy for you too!!! Quincy sure is a beautiful girl and I will be praying that all goes well.

Love and hugs, Lori

Oh Sas, I will cross everything I can find in my house in addition to fingers, toes, eyes and paws while hoping that the medical exams go OK!!!!!

You've made my day with your news! ;) :) :) :) :) :) :)

Thanks, thanks and thanks :) I am exhausted righy now, it was a 6 hour drive (roundtrip) and a 2 hour visit so I was away from home for 8 hours straight, can't even lift a finger anymore to type....but oh dear, was it worth it. I would drive till the end of the world for her :D

Sas :)

Oh it is wonderful! I'm so glad you fit, now come on Quincy and pass those medicals!!!

Love the photos. Looks like you are hugging each other!

wonderful news!
hugs
sharlene and molly muffin

Sharlene, we were hugging each other :D Quincy was as taken with me as I was with her. The servicedogschool trainer was there as well and he wanted to see if Quincy was able to "learn" so he wanted me to do a little training session with her. Mind you, Quincy doesn't know anything about "training" yet, she is not familiar with "learning" and clicker training. Dogs learn how to learn...but Quincy doesn't have any experience yet. So here I go, with an unfamiliar dog who doesn't know me either and who's not familiar yet with the concept of clickertraining and learning :eek: I grab my keys, some treats, sit down on the floor (surrounded by 4 adults all closely watching me) and Quincy comes walking up to me. I hold the keys in my hand, Quincy looks at me, looks at the keys, looks at me again and gently touches the keys with her nose :D She gets a "good girl" and a treat. She looks at me again and touches the keys again with her nose. Another good girl and a treat and Quincy skips the looking at me and goes straight to touching the keys with her nose, which of course gets her another good girl and a treat. I then place the keys on the floor...curious to see if she had made the connection yet ( "I need to touch the keys...no matter where they are"). Quincy looks at me again, looks at the keys on the floor, looks at me again (I am compeletely "neutral"at that moment, no hinting with my eyes or voice, etc), looks at the keys again and yessssssssss....she touches them gently with her nose! :eek: After 3 times, the same thing, I decide to make it a bit more difficult and am not rewarding Quincy for just touching the keys with her nose, but she has to shove them a short distance with her nose. Quincy touches the keys with her nose (as she now knows is what is exoected of her) and darn, the good girl and the reward aren't coming. Quincy looks at me again, touches the keys again with her nose...no rewards. The she looks up at me quickly and voila, she shoves the keys over some distance wth her nose. BIG goodgilr and treats :D After she ate her treat, she shoved the keys all over the livingroom floor, hahahaha... She is definately one smart cookie :D And all the time she was wagging her tail, she loved "training" :) We got a standing ovation for our training session ;) It was....simply a dream come true, more then I ever could have hoped for :)

Saskia :)

Oh Sas, the visit sounded absolutely wonderful --- and so does Quincy!!!! I hope she does pass the medical for sure.

I missed it maybe but how old is she?

You look wonderful in the photos!!

Terry

She'll be turning 2 on June the 17th, so next month :) Thank you Terry, we had such a wonderful, sunny and relatively warm spring and I did spent a lot of time outdoors, works always so healing for me and I do feel good indeed so I guess it did help again :)

I am hoping right with you she'll passes her medical exams. Not sure how I will manage to get through the days untill then ;)

Sas :)

Sas, when will the medical work-up take place? I want to be able to focus all my positive energy on Quincy just at the right time! ;)

Marianne, I have no idea yet unfortunately. Today and tomorrow are official hollidays, then it's the weekend so Monday at the soonest they (they, the fosterparents) will receive a list of vets via the servicedog school that are certified to do these test on service dogs (they cannot be done by any vet, they need to be certified in order to perform these service dogs exams), then they have to schedule appointments and I have no idea how soon that can be done. And since Quincy needs to be seen by 2 seperate specialists (eyespecialist and X-ray specialist/orthopedic surgeon) and they don't neccesarily are located at the same facility, it's quite possible both tests can't be done on the same day... So bottomline, I have no idea :D I hope...but that's merely hope and not based on anything, it could be done before next week Friday...
But once I do know for certain, I'll make sure to let you know :)

Sas :)

Hi Sas-

I am just now catching up with all the exciting news! And it's Friday, here....any word yet? It all sounds wonderful and meant to be. Would you mind if I mailed Bailey over for you to do some training? Just a thought.:confused::eek:;)
Hugs,
Susan