100: Big November

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This is Joy & Claire: 100: Big November

Episode Date: November 11, 2021

Transcription Completed: November 14, 2021

Audio Length: 51:48 minutes 

Joy: Hey guys, this is Joy.

Claire: And this is Claire.

Joy: And this is Joy and Claire. Howdy! Hey friends. 

Claire: Happy Thursday.

Joy: Happy Thursday. No other day, always Thursday. You can always count on us.

Claire: Every Thursday for years and years and years and years.

Joy and Claire: For the rest of your life.

Claire: Whether you want or not, we will be here.

Joy: You know, it’s really funny. So we’re turning Cadet in this week, and I saw a memory pop up on my Facebook that was when I graduated with JT was exactly eight years ago this week. Isn’t that crazy? So we’re turning in Cadet the same week eight years ago that I graduated with JT. It’s so weird. So JT also turns ten this week. It’s his birthday week.

Claire: Oh my gosh. JJ.

Joy: So many fun things going on with dogs. I don’t know if it’s fun, but.

Claire: How are you feeling? Can you talk about it?

Joy: Yeah, I can talk about it. 

Claire: Emotionally, can you talk about it?

Joy: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I knew what you meant. Am I going to just lose it? No, I can talk about it. Everyone should know this by now, but Cadet turns into advanced training this Friday. We’ve raised her for Canine Companions for about 18 months now. Her advanced training could be up to six months. At that point, she would then be matched with someone for service working as a service dog. Just to clarify again, I do not keep the dog for a service dog. We do not train her to be our service dog. But we are training her to be someone else’s service dog. However, if she fails out of advanced training at any time, she could come back to us as a pet and live out the rest of her life as a pet. After we turn her in on Friday, we wait about six weeks to get her first puppy report. So every month the trainers will send you a little report card on how she’s doing, which is really cute. We could also get a phone call too. It’s very much a pins and needles. You just hope she does well. Such mixed feelings. Of course we would love to have her as a pet, but you also are doing this for the agency. We’ve known that since day one. This is not our dog. I’ve definitely noticed in the past month, Scott and I had a huge emotional breakdown in October when we got this survey just prepping you for turn-in. It hit us that, oh my gosh, this is happening. And I think once we booked the travel and the hotel and set everything up logistically, ever since then it’s been this acceptance of “this is going to happen.” I haven’t been teary about it. There’s moments if I think about the actual day of turning her in, I get a little bit teary. But I haven’t been crying every night. I’m trying not to do the thing that’s overdramatic of, “It’s the last time I’m giving you a bath.” But it’s hard enough to think about those lasts,