07 Oct 2010, 5:14 am
The_Dude wrote:
ASdogGeek wrote:
The_Dude wrote:
I have four dogs - it'd be so awesome to have a service dog, or even just a service dog jacket for one of mine! I think I'd be a lot more inclined to go out if I could take a dog with me wherever I went.
if you train your dog tasks to help mitigate your disability he or she is a service dog but it is a feloney to put a vest on a pet dog and call them a service dog. a service dog needs to be task oriented and trained to help you with you disability. again this is easy to do.
brain stor you biggest challanges
then come up with something your dog can be trained to do to help you with it
I appreciate it would be naughty to just have the coat
I'm not sure what any of mine could be trained to do that would be helpful other than keep me company which probably isn't enough to qualify
well what sort of challanges do you have?
07 Oct 2010, 6:54 am
ASdogGeek wrote:
well what sort of challanges do you have?
Well my psych report is 6 pages long so I'm sure to find something in there
Apart from a brief period when I was married I've lived alone with a pack of dogs, I have four at the moment and apparently from the outside this can be viewed as a little odd but it's just normal to me. One of my parents raised it at my Dx appointment and the psych said it seemed like a reasonable response for someone who was struggling to understand the people around him to surround himself with dogs which he does understand.
They are my friends and family, I mean they're not of course because they are dogs, but I mean I feel a lot more 'on my own' without a dog - even when I'm with other people. So while I can't think of anything that a support dog could specifically do for me, as in be trained to do, just having a dog with me is a tremendous boost and they won't let you in anywhere with a dog these days. A friend of mine suggested moving to France where they are a lot more dog friend;y but that strikes me as rather drastic
