Bringing Home Fred

I've anticipated this initial meeting for months, most anxiously since GOOD DOG director, Laura, began posting pics of my soon-to-be service pup in training on Instagram a couple of weeks ago. 

Tonight was the night. Fellow trainers Samantha and Khrys and I met Laura and her husband Rick for dinner at The Blue Agave Bar in Pleasanton. Here, in a moment of joy and revelation, they placed these precious ten week old butterballs in our arms...their futures as canine autism companions in our hands. 

Settling in and getting to know each other will commence tomorrow; more in-depth reports about autism service dogs, and documentation of the whole training process will follow. But for now, puppy and I are exhausted, and falling asleep to a Chakra healing meditation that seemed to quiet his restless cries from inside the crate almost instantaneously. 

Sweet dreams, little One. May we both rest, for a long and brilliant journey awaits us.