Well Alicia decided she loved ChaCha too much to let her go when she went up for adoption at the end of the school-year and she decided to adopt her! Today was ChaCha's last "working" day at school so when we were done using her in lab at 5pm she became officially "retired" and got to come home with us for good. No more having to live in the stressful dog kennel at school anymore. Now it's on to a life of comfort with plenty of spoiling and love.
While they are owned by the school they have a very strict food/treat protocol and are only allowed to eat two specific types of treats (neither of which is very exciting/high value for a dog). It supposedly started after the pet food recalls a few years when they became more worried that if the dogs' walkers were giving them all sorts of different foods they wouldn't know what they had ingested if they became ill for some reason. Well it's pretty impossible to do much training with the two boring treats they were allowed to use so Alicia and many of the other dog's walkers would give their dogs "contraband" and feed them yummy unapproved treats. Alicia made sure to do it rarely and only with trusted human foods like hot dogs or cheese. Now that ChaCha is a free dog she can have all the contraband she wants! In fact, next Friday she is even having a welcome home/contraband party where guests can all bring her some of their pet's favorite treats for her to try. Levi has already given her a little sampler pack from his large variety of tasty treats. He's so excited that his girlfriend has moved in for good and can't wait for all the fun play time they will have together.
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