Ollie’s Success Story —

Now that the pandemic is coming to an end, the RRP was exactly what we needed to get back on track with training Ollie to be alone to provide us the freedom to leave, now that it is safer to do so!  

Ollie showed signs of separation anxiety immediately after we adopted him at the end of October of 2019.  We were working through training and testing medications and we were struggling a lot.  He was going to doggie daycare every day while we were at work and we figured out band aid solutions on weekends when we needed to leave him.  Then all of a sudden the pandemic hit and our problem of leaving Ollie disappeared.   We ended up moving to a new apartment that we had never left Ollie alone in and it was the perfect time to start fresh and join the RRP to prepare us to get back to the norm of leaving and not taking Ollie with us all the time.  

I liked how organized it seemed with assignments and homework that would help keep me accountable for actually doing the training. The SA training we were doing was not realistic or conducive to do whenever we wanted. I needed the guidance on the missions and another set of eyes on the videos to see what was going on.  It was also nice to see other people on a similar journey. [The training logs] also held me accountable to watch the videos of the missions and look for certain behaviors and patterns

We still have a long way to go with this, but now feel like we have a foundation that is working to keep moving forward with.  The learnings from the RRP have now become part of my daily routine of working from home.