Most of the stuff I’ve learned has been from being around CCI staff and graduates for a number of years now, and it’s also mostly all stuff you won’t ever read anywhere. A lot of it is like this one – something that I probably woulda never thought about before I got so involved in the service dog world, and if I did, I could’ve very well had exactly the opposite opinion I do now.

That’s why I’m always trying to get those kinda things across here – if I “took the hook” on something before, I figure there are a lotta others falling for it, too. “Fighting the feelgood factor” as I call it, where very well-meaning people look at all these dog stories, particularly if there’s a veteran involved, and automatically go “Awwwwwww…” without really understanding the ramifications.

Al