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keep me going in a straight line, which he did by walking on my left side. He did a great job keeping me out of traffic. He did this funny thing with his left ear. It was almost like he had a brain injury. He'd always cock his left ear and everybody just loved It when he did that. It was kind of like it had a little twitch to it. He would do it all the time. It was like, when we were out in public, that he would sit down and then flap his ear, kind of like a greeting to others around us. It was like he wanted attention and he knew exactly how to get it. He was always very well behaved around other dogs. He was just a very loving dog. He had a heart of gold. My whole family...they were all shocked and very upset when Reece passed away, which happened in November of 2016.
Reece wasn't as well-trained as Cojack. Cojack had two and a half years of training while Reece only had eight months of training but, from what I was told, the training was pretty extensive. I got Cojack in June of 2017 from the Indiana Canine Assistance Network (ICAN) and his training was done by designated inmates at Indiana prisons. When Cojack saw me getting upset he did this thing called visit where he put his head on my knee to keep it from bouncing...to help me to calm down. Since I had been getting healthier, we had been working on a new thing where he did a low crawl like an Army Soldier. I was teaching him that so I could get him under places, like under an airplane seat. That's the good thing about having such a well- trained dog is that you can continue their training and add additional things that you want them to do as your needs change. For me having been Infantry, him doing a low crawl was pretty cool. He also knew the command of hug, where he would get up on you, and put his head over your head, and basically hug you. If he saw me getting upset, he would keep walking back and forth in front of me until I gave him the command 'hug'.
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