@lsittll Thank you, Laurie! My dad really got into making wood shop projects for fundraising and he set a goal to raise enough money to completetly train one dog. I would help out too at events and gift wrapping for donations during the holidays. We had an Old English Sheepdog when I was a kid. I was little and he was big, so he just moved me out of his way, and would take my food away from me. He didn't do that well with obedience training. With the service dog organizations, often they breed their own because they choose specific breeds that are easier to train and hopefully don't develop problems like hip dysplasia because they have the genetics of the parent dogs. When they are going to put a lot of work into a dog, they want to pick the most compatible and healthiest dog to start with.

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