You have every right to be proud of your granddaughter - what a great thing she’s doing, an awesome young lady. She will go far!
My cousin and his wife have been involved in the initial care and training of service dogs for a few years. They work with the puppies until they’re a certain age and then sometimes turn them over to another volunteer for more training. A real worthy endeavor! I would have a hard time doing that as I’d get too attached to the dogs! They normally work with labs and retrievers, I’ll have to ask them if anyone in their club works with doodles - they are so darn cute and good dogs. I think if I were to get a dog, I’d lean towards a doodle, though I love German Shepherd (but they shed).
German Sheperds are my favorite, too.
They were my kids constant companion when they were growing up.
Living in a rural area had the plus that the dogs went everywhere with them,except to school, and mom didn’t have any worries someone would mess with her kids.
I would love one of GD’s bernedoodles, bernese mountain+poodle, but hubby says no more dogs.
He has good reasons but....
I told him when he dies, I will get a dog and name him his name!