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Ned's Journey: The First Year of a Future Service Dog
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Ned's Journey: The First Year of a Future Service Dog
When my retired combat veteran husband needed a service dog, I never imagined I would be the one raising him.
As a lifelong cat person with no dog-training experience, I suddenly found myself bringing home an eight-week-old Labrador Retriever puppy with oversized paws, endless energy, and an uncanny ability to find trouble. His name was Ned, and he was being raised with the hope that one day he might become my husband's service dog.
What followed was a year of sleepless nights, teething disasters, chewed shoes, training setbacks, and small victories that often felt enormous. Like many first-time puppy owners, I quickly discovered that raising a dog was nothing like I had imagined.
Through crate training, socialization, recall work, adolescence, and countless lessons learned the hard way, Ned and I grew together. Along the way, I learned that raising a future service dog isn't just about teaching commands. It's about building trust, understanding, and a partnership that deepens one day at a time.
This is not the story of a finished service dog. It is the story of the first year - the foundation. The year when a curious yellow Labrador began showing glimpses of the dog he might become, and when I discovered that the puppy I was training was changing me just as much as I was changing him.
Because sometimes the most important lessons are learned long before the real work begins.
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