International assistance dogs/service dog week!

Cupcake_Hearts · Post by **Cupcake_Hearts** » 09 Aug 2020, 08:58

Hey! It's officially assistance dogs week!

For those of you who don't know, this is Jaxx. He's my 4 year old owner-trained assistance dog. He's an Easter baby, born in April and is a lab x dane.
He alerts to high heart rate, low blood pressure, Mast cell attacks, and helps with my ptsd.

Do you have an assistance dog/Service dog? Would you like to ask a question, feel free I'm an open book! <3

Moulders · Post by **Moulders** » 09 Aug 2020, 11:34

I do not have an assistance dog.

But I do like dogs. Particularly Jack Russels.

I have a question though...... for your assistance dog.

Woof woof wrrrrrrrrrrgl. Wurg wurg, Wurgly wurrrrr. Woffety woof?

Cupcake_Hearts · Post by **Cupcake_Hearts** » 09 Aug 2020, 13:27

Moulders wrote: ↑
09 Aug 2020, 11:34
I do not have an assistance dog.

But I do like dogs. Particularly Jack Russels.

I have a question though...... for your assistance dog.

Woof woof wrrrrrrrrrrgl. Wurg wurg, Wurgly wurrrrr. Woffety woof?

Ah moulders! I was starting to think you weren't here anymore!
Jaxx says --woof wrugly wurr woof, woof!

Shounen-Recycled · Post by **Shounen-Recycled** » 12 Aug 2020, 17:39

https://postimages.org/

This is me and my Mothers therapy dog Cara. She is a very loving and sweet girl. We rescued her 7 years ago and after a lot of work she is now also going to care homes for the elderly so they can have interactions with dogs! horay for doggos

LilMissLarBear · Post by **LilMissLarBear** » 12 Aug 2020, 18:00

Soooo basically lets say something happens to you, your dog can spot that and then barks to alert nearby people so they can come and help you/phone an ambulance or something? If so that sounds so cool! Dogs are so smart!

lambda-sky · Post by **lambda-sky** » 13 Aug 2020, 10:37

I'm a dog exclusionary radical felineist so I don't usually approve of dogs. But these ones are pretty cool.

Heyitslaurenk wrote: ↑
12 Aug 2020, 18:00
Soooo basically lets say something happens to you, your dog can spot that and then barks to alert nearby people so they can come and help you/phone an ambulance or something? If so that sounds so cool! Dogs are so smart!

I don't think it's only about emergencies. Dogs can be trained to detect things before humans, so they can let the owner know there's a problem so they can take medication or whatever before the problem gets worse. In some cases it probably also helps to have an external thing barking at you so you know whatever is happening is not just in your head.