Listen as the people in this documentary explain how psychiatric service dogs help people cope with daily life http://www.psychdog.org/video_darkness_to_light.html
Psychiatric Service Dogs Video
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Listen as the people in this documentary explain how psychiatric service dogs help people cope with daily life http://www.psychdog.org/video_darkness_to_light.html
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I have a service dog for my husband. He is fully trained with a picture I.D. I am his trainer. As we could not afford formal training I have spent hundreds of hours and he has had several 8 week classes from puppy classes right to good citizens.We now do private lessons when I encounter a behavior that either I don’t like or need to change. My trainer is amazing with our dog. His I.D.has both our names on it. My husband is in the hospital for about the 20th time in the past 2 years. We keep him in his room and have no problems with the staff. When I take him out i continue with his training as he has not encountered elevators, escalaters and I continue to train stairs and being in crowds. He is an amazing animal. My question is what are my rights as a trainer. I need to leave his room for food and many other things. I was thrown out of Dunkin Doughnuts this morning & it was very upsetting. He was wearing his vest & they never even asked if I had a dissability. If my husband was there I would have fought them tooth and nail. Does anyone know my rights as a trainer. P.S. my first few days he was at home with my daughter & I was a wreck each time I went out. We are in a hospital not near our home. My car is a mile away and i have to walk everywhere. I am in a big city and am from the suberbs. I thought I was miss independence but I was still very fearful being alone. I am a firefighter and EMT and exposed to a lot of bad people in my daily job. I know there are a lot of bad people but now am alone & not on the job with other people to protect me. My dog makes me feel safe and he also is very protective. We don’t want to involve our family even though we have a very close nit family.
I found a good website that has great patches and vest for all type of service dogs and also has a emotional support cat patch and lots of other nice patches. Go online to pup’parel and take a look. If you do buy them let me know how these patches and vest help you out in public. And which ones did you buy! I hope this website will help all people that have a service dog. have better luck out in public!
Thank you for that vidio it was very informative. I have yet to be diagnosed with a disability so I have no proof. My husband does and I have some pictures that I will forward with Blaze our service dog lying on my husbands hospital bed during a transfusion with masks on both my husband and Blaze. He caught my husbands low blood sugar 4 times in the hospital to the amazement of all the staff, but beyond that he was treated with the utmost respect and allowed almost everywhere.
My husband is a 100% disabled OIF veteran suffering from severe combat PTSD and TBI. His dog Pax, from Puppies Behind Bars has been the best thing to happen to him since his return from Iraq.
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