name: Clover
age: 4 (don't ask me what that is in dog years)
birthday: Unknown, although they have a rough estimate they celebrate Clover's gotcha day (June 17th) instead.
gender: Female
pronouns: She / Hers
hair color: Golden
eye color: Brown
occupation: Ches's Service Dog, and being the bestest girl.
Responds to Ches’s anxiety and tries to prevent an anxiety attack from occurring when they are in public
Wakes Ches from her nightmares
Interrupts flashbacks, panic/anxiety attacks, and night terrors
Interrupts Ches’s more self destructive behavior.
Guides Ches to a safe place (if everything else doesn’t ease Ches’s symptoms)
Retrieve items when pointed and the command Récupérer is spoken (mostly trained to do this to retrieve phones during extremely bad episodes where Ches breaks down on the floor and can’t force herself to get up, sometimes Ches uses this skill because of its usefulness too).
Can call Ches’s “dad” (see Logan Elswood) with a K9 phone in the worst case situation.
Clover came into Ches’s life at the time they needed each other most. Ches’s PTSD was starting to get worse, to the point she was functioning robotically at best. Stumbling upon an extremely young puppy with no signs of her mother caused something to click in her, an urge to work through her demons to take care of this dog. So she did. She bottle-fed the golden retriever, took her to the vet for repeated checkups to ensure she was developing fine, and eventually when she was old enough and the dog’s temperament became apparent and it was revealed she’d be well suited for the work - she started to work with trainers to train Clover as a service dog at her therapist’s suggestion.
Clover is a very calm dog, she’s dedicated to her work and it’s very common to see her laying by Ches’s feet watching her. She does NOT eat human food very often and mealtimes are routine, however Ches will sneak her some foods that she doesn’t make very often (and in turn Clover isn’t going to misbehave in public over) in her bowl when the dog isn’t looking on holidays. (Like, for example, a piece of turkey on Thanksgiving).
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