A number of my students raise the service dog pups. Our campus has a "career change" dog as the police outreach dog after she flunked out of service dog for an autistic person school (she's great...
A number of my students raise the service dog pups. Our campus has a "career change" dog as the police outreach dog after she flunked out of service dog for an autistic person school (she's great for students reporting traumatic incidents, but too food motivated with too many medical problems to be a service dog).
People really don't know anything about service dogs, assuming they must be trained by a school or certified in some way. Or limiting their tasks to guide dog ones. We had a student who worked our desk regularly with a toy sized diabetes dog and I have a friend with a PTSD oriented, private trained dog. Thanks for the good article!
(As an aside the "recommended reading" mid article did give me a double take. )
LOL, yeah MEL Magazine was kind of a weird publication. As is typical of men's magazines, they were often pretty clickbaity/sex focused, but unlike a lot of other similar-ish men's magazines (e.g....
(As an aside the "recommended reading" mid article did give me a double take. )
LOL, yeah MEL Magazine was kind of a weird publication. As is typical of men's magazines, they were often pretty clickbaity/sex focused, but unlike a lot of other similar-ish men's magazines (e.g. Maxim) they didn't promote toxic masculinity, MRA/manosphere bullshit, or misogyny/objectification of women. And despite the clickbait, they still published a lot of really really interesting articles (like this one). Which is why, IMO, it's actually a shame that they closed down, and stopped publishing new articles. I'm glad their site is still up though, so I can occasionally sift through their archives looking for interesting articles to read and post here on Tildes. :)
Do you know why hackles are a problem for seeing eye dogs? If the dog is aggressive, that makes sense, but the article made it seem like it was an issue whether it was a sign of aggression or just...
Do you know why hackles are a problem for seeing eye dogs? If the dog is aggressive, that makes sense, but the article made it seem like it was an issue whether it was a sign of aggression or just an aesthetic issue.
I don't think it's aesthetic. I don't know personally but service dogs have to be chill and not show aggression. They often have to bark as an alert and you need them thinking rather than reacting...
I don't think it's aesthetic. I don't know personally but service dogs have to be chill and not show aggression. They often have to bark as an alert and you need them thinking rather than reacting and you need other people to understand that the dog is guiding not aggressive. Guide dogs in particular have to deal with a lot of stimuli and the standards are really high
A number of my students raise the service dog pups. Our campus has a "career change" dog as the police outreach dog after she flunked out of service dog for an autistic person school (she's great for students reporting traumatic incidents, but too food motivated with too many medical problems to be a service dog).
People really don't know anything about service dogs, assuming they must be trained by a school or certified in some way. Or limiting their tasks to guide dog ones. We had a student who worked our desk regularly with a toy sized diabetes dog and I have a friend with a PTSD oriented, private trained dog. Thanks for the good article!
(As an aside the "recommended reading" mid article did give me a double take. )
LOL, yeah MEL Magazine was kind of a weird publication. As is typical of men's magazines, they were often pretty clickbaity/sex focused, but unlike a lot of other similar-ish men's magazines (e.g. Maxim) they didn't promote toxic masculinity, MRA/manosphere bullshit, or misogyny/objectification of women. And despite the clickbait, they still published a lot of really really interesting articles (like this one). Which is why, IMO, it's actually a shame that they closed down, and stopped publishing new articles. I'm glad their site is still up though, so I can occasionally sift through their archives looking for interesting articles to read and post here on Tildes. :)
Yeah I wasn't familiar with them so I didn't realize what the vibe was til I got there lol
Just a bit of whiplash
Do you know why hackles are a problem for seeing eye dogs? If the dog is aggressive, that makes sense, but the article made it seem like it was an issue whether it was a sign of aggression or just an aesthetic issue.
I don't think it's aesthetic. I don't know personally but service dogs have to be chill and not show aggression. They often have to bark as an alert and you need them thinking rather than reacting and you need other people to understand that the dog is guiding not aggressive. Guide dogs in particular have to deal with a lot of stimuli and the standards are really high