How sad...our graduation is in two days. I always get a little bittersweet feeling over graduation. I am so proud of where the girls and dogs have journeyed....and you really get to know them pretty good over the course of two months. Some of the girls are a little more vocal about their feelings than others. We have one really huggy, pretty needy girl that I will miss. Another who has gone through so much trauma in her life that it makes me feel sad that we won't be able to offer her anything anymore...I mean....she loved learning about dogs and pulled every brochure they had in the shelter to read and learn about diseases and shelter life. She absorbed everything like a sponge. She took on THE most challenging dog we had...an overactive, confined treeing walker coonhound with a bad case of happy tail. This dog had been abandoned and would bark incessantly in her kennel. No volunteers would walk her because she was so crazy. But when I offered up the dog to see who would be willing to work with her, she stepped up without a second's hesitation. She wanted the challenge and took it. The dog is unrecognizable now - she no longer has happy tail, no longer barks in her kennel, can walk nicely on a leash and can do just about any trick that C showed her. She is upset, really upset, about not being there, but she keeps so much inside. You could tell by her face that she was about to lose it, but it came out in frustrated words and irritiability. I just feel so sad, yet inspired, by her.
Anyway, I am not as eloquent as Lisa...I just wanted to share.
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