A Letter to the Service Dog Project From a Service Dog Recipient
Dear Carlene,
I heard you were looking for an update so here it is. School is getting better, and Wendy will go outside for recess with me with Daddy helping a little bit, but a lot less than last week. We went apple picking and it was Wendy's first time. I went down the big hill to the trees to pick with Daddy only helping across the rocky parking lot and then holding the back up chain part way down the hill, but we did so good that he ended up letting it go and just having us do it ourselves. She didn't want to go the way I wanted sometimes but I made her do it, and we walked ahead of Mommy, Daddy and Madi looking for apples on lower branches. I slipped a couple of times because it was really wet, but I got up and kept on going, but I wasn't happy about my pants being wet! I did fall once and grabbed on to Wendy and didn't fall to the ground. Wendy was sniffing the apples on the trees and on the ground, but I told her that she couldn't and then she was fine. We went quite a ways and finally had to climb the big hill to get back to the car and Wendy helped pull me up. Daddy and Mommy said we did great and it was almost all by ourselves! Love, Hunter & Wendy