Dogs are incredible animals. They are hunters, fetchers, rescuers, herders, and even healers. The dogs have amazing senses of smell, sight and hearing. This helps them in being great hunters, fetchers, rescuers, herders, and healers. They can smell out the game to shoot. They can smell people that are trapped in an avalanche. Also, smell sheep that lost its way out of the herd. Even, smell a difference in its owner before they have a seizure.
Dogs’ senses can help them detect all kinds of illnesses in humans. Cancer, seizures and hypoglycemia are just a few of the illnesses they can detect. The brilliant animals could help so many that are not aware they are sick, or are trapped by their illnesses. Without a way of knowing when their illness will relapse; people hide in their home for fear of being hurt or embarrassed. Dogs can help these people by detecting their seizures, tumors, or blood sugar drops.
Service dogs can also help those that have physical disabilities. They can retrieve keys, turn on lights, open doors. The dogs help those with anxiety disorders. Dogs significantly reduce anxiety their unconditional love and companionship. They can remind owners to take medication. Distract and redirect owner from harmful or compulsive behaviors.
Sadly, most of those who need these animals are not aware of the dogs’ capabilities. Awareness should be raised for those that need assistance like me. I have a seizure disorder and was unaware of dogs’ capabilities until I purchased my Shar Pei, Copper. He didn’t have to even be taught to detect my seizures he just knew. After the first one, we always knew when Copper would scratch at my feet and whine that I would be having a seizure. Dogs are brilliant in that way. So, why is it so bad...
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...searchers hypothesized that this reduction may be due to changes in the owners' perceptions of self-control and self-efficacy.” (Wells, 2012) The dogs can warn those with a seizure onset to get to safety. They would be able get away from objects that could hurt them, and get away from the public eye. They could avoid riding in the ambulance if the seizure isn’t bad.
So, tell me that that is not embarrassing. Service dogs can save so many people from that kind of situation. Just by using the extraordinary senses they were born with. They could help so people get back their freedom. They could even help create new machine that can detect when someone is going to have and episode. Detection could also lead to cures. We could find cures for hypoglycemia, epilepsy, and even cancer. I don’t know about everyone else, but that sounds pretty good to me. Dogs can help heal.
Something such as, if the pet was hurt, hungry or needed something and they could express to the owner for that specific need could be very beneficial. Although, as humans are very sensitive and have a lot of harsh outcomes in life, it can also be very painful for animals to go through deaths, bad moments, and even everyday life. Hermes and Apollo are Gods who believe in such different areas. The percentage of dogs that lived a happy life compared to the ones who did not is very significant. Dogs, or any animal, should not have human intelligence.
Some medical professionals do not believe that mental health patients can benefit from therapy dogs and go as far as saying it is a risk far as to say that it is a to the patient and compromise the patients ability to take care of the dog. When people who suffer with mental health issues qualify to get a therapy dog. The mental health patient is tested to see if they are capable of taking care of the dog. Those in need of assistance should use therapy dogs frequently do to the part of the benefits to using these pets to improve mental and emotional health as and physical health. Therapy dogs are beneficial to people who suffer from mental health issues by providing companionship as well as support. Some people with mental health issues have a hard time trusting others and need someone to talk to; Service dogs are important because to make they people with mental health problems feel better and help people with these disorders deal with their emotions.
A therapy dog is a dog that might be trained to provide affection and comfort people in hospitals,retirement homes,nursing homes,schools,hospices,disaster areas, and to people with autism. Therapy dogs are usually not assistance or service dogs. but can be one or both with some organizations. In the u.s. Therapy dogs are not service animals and are not afforded the same privileges as them. Institutions may invite. limit or prohibit access by therapy dogs. If allowed many institutions have rigorous requirements for therapy dogs. United States based Therapy Dogs International And the use of service dogs in their therapy dog program Service dogs perform tasks for persons with disabilities and have a legal right to accompany their owners in most
It can be a companion, an aide, or both. Pet dogs are loyal and make wonderful company, and an emotional support dog creates bountiful joy, but a service dog is much more. A service dog not only serves the same role as a pet, but creates a safer environment for its owner. Without the service dog it would be much harder for the owner to get around on a daily basis indecently. However service dogs and their owners are discriminated against because people are skeptical of the dog’s legitimacy, but instead the service dogs and their owners should be respected and treated as
People are beginning to take dogs for granted. They feel that it is just an animal with no feelings and don’t consider what kind of role a dog really ...
As of 2012, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that one in 50 children between the ages of six and seventeen has autism spectrum disorder, with males being four times more likely than females to have these conditions (Slaughter 1). Autism is a developmental disorder that affects the brains normal development of social and communication skills. Service dogs are normally used to aid the blind, deaf or hard of hearing, and other types of disabilities. Service dogs have recently been used to help children with autism. The service dog industry has had a growing impact on the autism community, the benefits and disadvantages affect each child differently.
Most people are familiar with service dogs and have seen them in action. Animal-assisted therapy is similar service animals in that an animal-human healing partnership is being created. However, the difference is that therapy pets are typically used to treat a mental disability whereas people with physical disabilities use service dogs to help them in many ways. Therapy animals are used in a wide variety of places, such as, hospitals, prisons, nursing homes, therapy sessions, mental healthcare facilities, and even in people’s homes. These amazing animals are used on a wide variety of different disorders, but they are utilized mostly by people suffering from depression, anxiety, and PTSD. For people with these mental health disorders, everything in live can be difficult and challenging, however with the help of animal-assisted therapy, their mood, motivation, and life can dramatically improve. Anyone who hears about these brave, loving animals soon falls in love with them. From a medical standpoint, there have been many successful studies and the support for animal-assisted therapy still continues to grow in doctors and therapists across the nation.
Pets can improve social health in a variety of ways. Showing devotion to and caring for a pet is a great way to improve the social and emotional aspects of a person (Grady). Those who are introverted can always have a quiet and attentive friend to talk to. Animals do not judge you and are always willing
Service dogs are another form of Animal Assisted Therapy. For example, a person that is deaf can own a hearing dog. “In these circumstances, a hearing dog can offer ameliorative benefits aside from alerting the caregiver to the phone ringing. A dog, being a full-time companion, ends up being a conversational partner that responds behaviorally to the statements and moods of other people nearby” (Fine 67). The dog becomes more than just a pet, but acts as a family member that takes full-time care of you.
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Dogs can help children cross the street, lead the blind, alert the deaf, and they do so much more. Many of times, an adult might focus on the problem that doesn’t need requirements. An adult might focus on the problem that a child is socially disabled and by focusing on this problem, they may not even see how this child is trying to cross a busy street or might be trying to talk to someone that they shouldn’t. A service dog prevents the child from going out of sight and many of times can lead a child out of danger or avoid it in the first place.
Animal-assisted therapy is often confused with service dog; it is two completely different type of usage of animals, which usually are dogs. It is commonly misunderstood because animal-assisted therapy and service dog are working animals with individuals with disability although according to (Hart-Cohen, 2009) service dogs is when an individual with disability is in need of help in order to function in daily life such as answering the door, crossing the street and the list goes on. While animal-assisted therapy animals are trained to offer comfort companionship, and affection to those in need in different situations such as courtrooms, nursing homes, schools, hospitals, and other places (Hart-Cohen, 2009). The point of animal-assisted therapy is to be available in specific situations to offer comfort to individuals. In order to become an assisted animal, the animal must undergo training, to receive a certified to prove that the animal is qualified to be able to control his or her behavior and is able to work with an...
You wake up in the hospital, look around, and find a doctor hovering nearby declaring that you have just suffered through a heart attack; affirming that if not for your dog, you would have died. You remember back to earlier that day: sitting on the couch, feeling a little off, hearing your dog barking, sensing him nudging you, going to the phone to call the ambulance, and having your dog by your side until you were safe inside the aluminum walls of the emergency vehicle. Although it sounds abnormal that a dog would be the one to save someone’s life, situations similar to the one above are not uncommon. Dogs and other household pets have been shown to be able to detect medical emergencies, including heart attacks and seizures, in their owners.
Dogs make great companions, can be an assistance dogs and help people with disabilities, and even protect a household. Hearing dogs can be the ears for a person that is hard of hearing, seeing dogs can be the eyes for someone who is legally blind, and service dogs can be an alert system for someone with epilepsy. Although, these dogs are put through a lot of special training for a specific need. More often than not, an assistance dog is adopted but also donated to someone who is handicap. Since a landlord is unable to refuse a house or apartment to someone with an assistance dog, and they are allowed everywhere it is less likely for them to become an inconvenience.
Dogs are wonderful creatures. They are loyal, dependable companions if given the opportunity. In recent years I have come to the opinion that we could learn something from these animals. We should also take a look at the manner in which they are being treated. Abandonment, irresponsible breeding, and neglect are only some of the ways that humans are failing the canine species.