Clovis mom raises money for son's service dog training

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Clovis ma is hoping a four-legged person volition supply comfortableness and companionship to her nine-year-old son.

Cooper was calved with Down syndrome.

His mom, Janine Brodeur, said the information comes with galore challenges.

"They besides person medically challenging disabilities to get done -- cognitive impairments, different carnal impairments," she explained.

Although Cooper is nine, Brodeur said her lad is -- cognitively -- 3 years old.

"Cooper does not person a batch of information awareness," she said.

This is simply a immense interest for Brodeur, which is wherefore she decided to get Cooper a work dog.

She posted a GoFundMe page, and the assemblage helped donate capable wealth to get the furry companion.

Cooper has already named the Goldendoodle -- Waffle. She'll go his newest person adjacent week.

As a azygous ma who works full-time, Brodeur believes Waffle volition supply changeless companionship to Cooper -- boosting his prime of life.

"The canine volition beryllium taught to laic adjacent to Cooper, to supply comfortableness for Cooper and adjacent to use compression arsenic she lays connected oregon adjacent to Cooper -- to supply that calming effect to assistance bring him retired of that incidental oregon that circumstantial situation that he's facing," she said.

Cooper's ma is besides excited astir the transportation her lad and Waffle volition develop.

"Being capable to provender his dog, emotion his dog, brushwood his dog, instrumentality his canine for walks," Brodeur said. "So each of those things are going to beryllium teaching him large beingness skills."

She is grateful the assemblage helped donate to get Waffle, but present they person to wage for her training.

Those funny successful donating tin sojourn the GoFundMe page.

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