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This article summarizes how post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) effects soldiers returning from combat zones and how service dogs help relieve PTSD symptoms. After the success of an award-winning program created for at risk teens, Rick Yount, a social worker and certified service dog trainer, created the first Warrior dog-training program. The Warrior dog-training program was designed to be a safe and effective

The amount of different service dogs available is incredible to me, before listening to Chris and Katy I only knew about one type of service dog and that was a seeing eye dog. I had no idea about any of the other possibilities such as hearing dogs, social dogs or dogs to help veterans. All of these service dogs are raised and trained to perform amazing tasks and help the owners out incredibly. Its a very wide range of people that dogs can help and I believe that as time goes on we will find more ways to help the lives of humans by using

Service Dogs Why are service dogs important? Service dogs are important because they serve multiple purposes. There are multiple different types of service dogs who help people in many ways.

After reading the articles Dog’s on duty and Service Dogs, Patients Bond Through Health Care Partnership, I decided that the first skill a dog must learn to become a service dog/police dog is a high sense of smell, especially to become a police dog. From the article Dog’s on duty: “He and other police dogs across the country are skilled at sniffing out danger and keeping people safe.” Dogs are said to have a sense of smell 1000 times better than a human being which is helpful if a dog needs to sniff out a bomb or something equally as dangerous. Those are my reasons why I think dogs absolutely need a good sense of smell.

So I think that the soldiers should keep the dogs. My most powerful reason is that it even says this in the book that Jose and Zenit had a strong bond and it showed this in pictures. So once they were separated Jose began to be depressed and missed Zenit. Jose even said that something felt missing without zenit.

Both however, are commonly called service dogs since it is their purpose to provide a service. These dogs are used everywhere to benefit people with disabilities, yet many in society do not understand the dog’s situation. The public should realize the need and effectiveness of therapy/service dogs; more specifically, what types of disabilities they can help with, where they can help, how they help, and who makes it possible.

According to Florida Statute 413.08-2d, a service dog is, “an animal that is trained to do work or perform tasks for an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability.”

My interest is Service Dog Training. You have to have a degree in animal SCIENCE to be a guide dog trainer 4 children with special needs. You have to get into a GOOD college to even learn animal science. (I have liked Service Dog Training and the idea of it since I was 9!) 4 Paws for Ability is a website for Service dogs, and when you’re old enough, you can volunteer there, or foster a service pup, and after it’s a year old, you have to take it back, so it can be put with a Child with special needs. Citation: I found this out when I wanted to be different than everyone that wanted to be a Veterinarian.

There are many people in the United States that have guide dogs as their eyes. They are hard to obtain because of requirements that are need like being physical and mental impairments. Cost of breeding the dog, sending the dog to school, and the time of training with the dog. All in all, there is more to think about went getting a guide dog.

Service dogs and prescription dogs are often used interchangeably when in fact there is a big difference in between the two types. According to the National Service Animal Registry (NSAR), Service dogs are generally used for people with physical disability and are trained to perform major life tasks. These animals are NOT pets. The Department

It is misunderstood that service dogs are only for the blind but this is not true. Service dogs assist people with many types of disabilities. According to Dr. Demling, Certified Behaviorist at Pet Wellness Academy, dogs also provide “Unconditional love. A 100% acceptance without judgment when a person is depressed, anxious, lonely, wearing the same clothes as yesterday and can’t get out of bed helps people feel like they have a true friend during their difficulties.” (qtd. In Bennett). There are service dogs for the blind, deaf, people with anxiety, depression, people who have seizures and people with autism. Service dogs make their owner’s lives happier by helping them overcome their disabilities and

In today’s evolving society, there is more mobility that ever for people with disabilities. One of the things that allows this to happen is the use of service animals. Problems however arise when people try to cheat the system. Attempts to pass off pets as service animals, improperly trained animals, and businesses with lack of knowledge on laws all contribute to ongoing frustrations. The need for a centralized training standard as well as government registration and regulation of service animals is clear and immediate. If standards can be established within breeding clubs for “Good Citizen” training, then it can be done for service dogs. Then, once

These illnesses can make it hard to do actions needed in everyday life when they return home from the battlefield. Since these illnesses are often more mental rather than physical, one of the best ways to help soldiers who suffer with PTSD or TBI is to provide a service dog to help their needs. A service dog is “any dog that is individually trained to work or perform a task for the benefit of an individual with a disability” (“Service Animals”). It may be hard to train a service dog or even find a dog to train. Approximately 3.9 million dogs enter shelters nationwide each year and of those 3.9 million, about 2.7 million are euthanized each year (“Pet Statistics”). Many of these dogs that are in shelters are strays as a result of improper care from their previous owners. Much of the nation’s animal cruelty is a result of conflicts between their owners. A 2011 survey states that about 10.2 million men and women are physically assaulted by their partner in the United States every year, and 62 percent of the nation's households have at least one pet ("Animal Cruelty Facts and Statistics”). Animals are just the victims of the prejudice that is going on around

At first sight, service dogs look like any other dog. They are furry. They walk on all fours. They have a tail. But they have many differences from other dogs. Service dogs are well behaved and are obedient. They wear clothing that no other dog wears such as a vest to make people aware that they are service dogs. Service dogs perform tasks that no other dogs can do, like paying for meals and carrying objects for their owners, sometimes in a vest compartment like a backpack. Service dogs are unlike other dogs because they are trained to do tasks that human beings normally do, but can’t because of some disability. Service dogs help their owners navigate the world they live in by assisting their owners in overcoming day to day

“Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, 'Hi' to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.” This quote from United States Senator Al Franken is a shining example of the power that a service animal can have to improve the quality of life for those with special needs who have a service animal. Imagine!