Therapy Dog. HA

About 9 months ago, I read an article in the local newspaper about a child with DS who had a therapy dog. The story highlighted how this child had learned to walk with the help of this "service dog". We have been lucky enough to have the priveledge of working with a great therapy dog at Cameron's therapy appointments on occasion, but thought that he may benefit from having more prolonged contact to a service dog. So the search began. I searched high and low with little result for quite a while. I finally found a company in Nevada that agreed to provide a dog for Cameron (with about a $2800 charge). The dog, Chance, whom I call Carl, arrived in September. He is a Rottweiler, as is the dog that Cameron plays with so willingly in therapy. The difference is that our dog is a small 80 pounds and the dog at therapy is a monster named tank weighing 150 pounds. The kicker.....Cameron hates Chance or Carl or whatever we call him. He wants nothing to do with him. I figured this would change after he got used to him, but still nothing. It is actually kind of amusing. We spent all this time and effort to get a service dog to help Cameron, and he hates him. HILARIOUS! So now we have a very expensive "pet". Good news is, Chance loves our family. He has adapted very well and fits in perfectly with his goofy personality.