{"id":3122,"date":"2016-09-20T14:01:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T18:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dupontvet.com\/blog\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2016-09-20T14:01:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T18:01:42","slug":"meet-novak-mikalas-service-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dupontvet.com\/blog\/meet-novak-mikalas-service-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Novak – Mikala’s Service Dog!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hello DVC Family and Friends!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m Novak!! I\u2019ve waited a long time to get to say these words! Do you remember last year when many of you graciously contributed money to \u201c4 Paws For Mikala\u201d? You partnered with a sweet Fort Wayne young lady to help her get her own service dog. Well\u2026 after over a year of waiting and training, Mikala and I were finally matched on September 3rd!<\/p>\n

Allow me to introduce myself with the letter I sent to Mikala that day:<\/p>\n

Dear Mikala,<\/em><\/p>\n

Hello my new best friend and buddy forever. How the heck are you? Please come tell me in person. I\u00a0want to meet you soooo bad. I\u2019ve been waiting all my life. When I started working for your class I\u00a0started to learn about you, well everything but your name, and today I got my match so I could send\u00a0you this email! Wish you were here! My name is Novak. I hear I am named after a woman who fought for people\u2019s rights and helped people, especially kids. That\u2019s kind of fitting! I just want it to\u00a0be the name of your dog and it is!<\/em><\/p>\n

So my litter is the SVU litter born 6\/21\/15 to mom (Beta) and dad (Doodlebug) and we are\u00a0Goldendoodles. We were born at 4 Paws and spent our early months in the 4 Paws Puppy Enrichment\u00a0Program. After graduating I was sent away to prison to learn how to give unconditional love to\u00a0people some humans find hard to love or care about. Of course it is not really something we have to\u00a0learn. All dogs are born with this gift and we pass it on to the inmates who are in need of some\u00a0unconditional love and acceptance! They in return taught us some basic obedience so that when we\u00a0were paroled we could start college. I went to live in a 4 Paws Foster Home called the Johnson\u00a0Family Foster Home! Of course I did my graduate work in all things Mikala here at 4 Paws! Now I\u2019m\u00a0ready and waiting.<\/em><\/p>\n

XOXOXO Novak<\/em><\/p>\n

I am so excited to be a part of your community and I will keep you posted as my arrival gets closer.<\/em>
\n (September 3, 2016)<\/em>
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Today was the BEST day of my life!! I got to meet my \u201cBestie for Life\u201d\u2026 and she was all and even more than I had hoped for! Mikala and her family came to 4 Paws for Mobility to begin the final stages of my service dog training together. Would you like a glimpse of the special moment we met!!?? Check out the video here:<\/p>\n