Quincy, from Polish straydog to Dutch service dog

Well drat. Still has we have said throughout, better to know these things up front than have to deal with them yourself down the road. That I think would be worse. The search continues. At least you know when that right match comes along that it really will be the right one.

Yay for the the teeth. I hope the next procedure goes just as smoothly and quick healing time. :) whoo hoo!

super big hugs!
sharlene and molly muffin

it's the old Sonny & Cher song........and the beat goes on, and the beat goes on..........
Just imagine what a treasure must be waiting for you and the end of this lengthy hunt! That dog is there, just waiting for you to find him/her.

So glad the tooth surgery went so well. That's great news.:D

-Susan

Okay, another candidate :) This time a small/medium sized shepard mix called Quincy. After lots of talking on the phone, after lots of questions (by me and the servicedog school) it is decided that she sounds just perfect. Her behaviour is examplary. She's very owner-oriented, social with all humans and animals but kind of stays to herself, a bit reserved because it's her nature not because she is scared or anything... Loves to fullfill tasks, very obedient, no hunting instincts whatsoever, cudlly with her owner, calm and stable... She'll turn 2 next month (in June), she's completely black, 45 cms/ 17.5 inches high and weighs 12 kilo's/26.5 lbs., a Yunah size dog :) You can see her pictures in my photoalbum.
( http://www.k9cushings.com/forum/album.php?albumid=862 )

She's a Polish stray that was rescued a year and a half ago, moved to The Netherlands, lived with a lady since then but now the lady suffers from severe depression and has decided it is best for Quincy to go life somewhere else because Quincy was suffering as well under the entire situation. So now she is in a temporary fosterhome.

I will go visit her next week, I do not know the exact date yet...and if the visit goes well, she'll go for her medical exam. So, another period of "wait and see" :)

Sas :)

She looks very calm doesn't she. Wow, check out those ears. You just know that she is right on top of everything going on around her.

Can't wait to see how the meeting goes!

hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin

Aparantly, she has this unique trade (Yunah had it too) that anything that isn't her business, she isn't bothered with :D If you will ask her to go get the ball, she'll go get the ball and if in the meantime the ceiling comes falling down, she couldn't care less....she was asked to go get the ball and nothing else :D So if she has no task to do, she will just lay quietly somewhere and observe...she won't mingle or participate.
And yes, she has HUGE, GIANT ears :eek: :D :eek: :D :eek: :D

Sas :)

Yehawwwww, we're going to meet Quincy the day after tomorrow, Wednesday :D
I am so exited,

Sas :)

Oh that is sooo exciting!! I can't wait to hear all the details of how goes.

Crossing fingers!
hugs
Sharlene and Molly muffin

Wednesday can't get here soon enough!! ;) :) :)

I hope so much that your visit goes well, Sas.

All fingers and toes crossed, too...
Marianne

Ahhhh, today I visited Quincy with the servicedogschool trainer and well....she was jusr awesome! I am madly in love with her, she's perfect :D Now we have to wait for her medical exans and the moment she passes them, she'll come to live with me and I will personally train her :D

Pictures of our visit: ( http://www.k9cushings.com/forum/album.php?albumid=862 )

She was smart (picked up on a training session very fast), calm, enjoying herself during training and we had an instant connection :D It was heaven..now keeping my fingers crossed she'll pass her medical exams :)

Saskia :)

Oh Sas, I couldn't be happier for you. You two look adorable together and I hope it turns out to be a match made in heaven. Yay, you're going to have another baby to share your life with.

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

Hi Susan,

no, I'm afraid that there's no news yet :( Lots of official hollidays, an absent secretary and well, lots of delay :mad: Without going into details, today I contacted my healthinsurance company (they pay for the service dog and thus they have the influence on the schools) and put them on the case...hope that will help some :)

Sure, you can mail Bailey my way, have lots of time on my hands, would welcome her with open arms :D Not sure if Bailey would feel the same way though ;) I actually had the dog of a friend of mine here for 2 weeks, he needed some extra attention too :D He now knows how it works, if I just could get my friend too to understand how it works :p

Saskia.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, June 11th, at 15.00 (3 in the afternoon) my time, Quincy has her appointment for the HD and ED x-rays :D

Saskia :)

Okayyyyyyyyyy, here are the results of Quincy's HD and ED exams. She is ED free and has HD A, could not be any better! :D :D :D

Next on the exam-list is the visit to the eyespecialist. Will let you know when that will be,

Saskia :D

YAY!!! Super good news!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

Super good news! Crossing fingers on the eye exam. So far so good. Deep breaths!

hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin

That's GREAT!!!
Hugs,
Susan

I just added a new picture of Quincy that I received today from the fosterfamily....she is such a cutiepie :)

http://www.k9cushings.com/forum/albu...pictureid=6801

Saskia :)

Quincy's eye exam will be on June 24th...

Saskia :)

She really is so cute. Just want to hug her and throw her a ball or something LOL

You know our fingers will be crossed here!!!

hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin

Yesterday, June the 17th, Quincy turned 2 :) Her fostermom send me a short video of Quincy and her BFF Kika playing. Kika is one of the fosterfamily's own dogs and the youngest. The others won't play with her but Quincy will, so they really quickly became very good friends, sleeping together etc. I really hate I have to break those 2 up, to end their friendship :(

Anyway, here's a link to, for you all, the first moving images of Quincy :)
http://youtu.be/UxkulDYu9IM

Saskia :)

Awww, she is so cute and playful.

love her!
hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin

In 18 hours I will finally know whether Quincy passed her final (eye) exam, I am about to burst with anxiety and anticipation :D

Sas :)

Everything crossed for good luck!!!!!!!

Come on Quincy!!! Pass Pass Pass!!

We're crossing everything, everywhere!

hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin

Anything and everything that has been crossed....has worked, Quincy passed all her medical exams! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

I am so very very happy. This little, black girl (and people keep asking me "Why did you pick her? You could have picked any dog. Why this ugly dog?") will surprise everyone. She is an exceptional dog, mark my words :) And I love her....ears and all ;)

Saskia :)

Oh Sas! I have been reading along and am so glad Quincy has passed all her exams! :cool::cool::cool: As for an "ugly dog" - whaaat?! She is gorgeous to me and I also love those ears! I so hope you and Quincy work out perfectly and have many years together.

Hugs,
Leslie

Dear Leslie,

with all these designer dogs these days, people don't understand that anyone would choose for such a strange looking dog instead of all the curls and the fluffy coat, etc. Well, I really don't care about looks, I just look at the character (and many people should do the same, in fact). And her character is breathtaking, I am truly crazy in love. And those ears? I think they are adorable ;)

How are you? I think so often about you. All I have to do is think back at the time I lost my Yunah and I know in what awful place you must be right now. But I also know you...and you will stand tall. It may take some time, a lot of time, but you will rise again and share all that you are with yet another pup that desperately needs you.

Big big hugs,

Sas :)

Oh Sas!!!!!!!!!!! :D :p :) :D :p :) :D :p :) :D :p :) :D

When do you get to claim her??

Her fosterfamily will contact me this evening and I suppose I will hear from them how soon they can come bring her :)

How Exciting!!! Go Quincy. Good job! Congratulations Sas on welcoming a new member to the family.

I think she is adorable!! Those ears, better to hear you with my dear. :)

hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin