Did You Hear That?

The knock on the door, the ring of the fire alarm, the car horn urging you to get out of the way.  All things most of us take for granted.  Unless you’re hearing impaired.  And then, these sounds are either muted or silent.  It’s scary knowing that you won’t have a “heads up” that something bad might be going down.

Enter Winston.  He’s 55 pounds of pure gooberish love.  And energy.  Until recently Winston resided at Richmond Animal League and before that who knows where he lived.  Now he resides with his new best girl, Becca.  And he’s going to learn to hear for her.  Yep, Winston is in training to be a hearing service dog.  He’ll alert her to that car horn, or alarm, or just the sound of someone saying her name when she’s walking away.  Oh, Becca, did you hear that?  With Winston’s help, now she can.

Winston has quite a bit of training to do … in fact he’s starting from scratch.  But he’s a quick study and it won’t be too long before he’ll be telling Becca, “hey, someone’s at the door”!

Winston and Becca are another Service Dog 411 success story.  To find your own success story, visit www.ServiceDog411.com today.  Your new best friend could be just around the corner.  Special thanks to Dee Bogetti, service dog trainer extraordinaire and Sarah Clinton, Community Manager at RAL for their assistance in helping Winston find his new calling.  Get it?  Calling?