Well, the time has come. Yesterday Kaboose had his interview for service work with a 14-year-old girl with cerebral palsy and seizures. Deborah thinks it will be a good fit. So we give him up a week from tomorrow, on his first birthday. He'll do his final training with the girl and her father, but he's well socialized now and has a good foundation and actually obeys, at least when he's not being a teenager. And the seizure alert part may give him a chance to use his overactive nose for a constructive purpose.
As Ed keeps saying, passing him on to his family has the same bittersweet taste as sending a kid off to college. It's not as hard as saying goodbye to a dying pet, but we'll miss him. A lot.
Here's a photo of Kaboose, Pat, and Chloe.
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