Welcome to Smokey's Assistance Dogs Foundation
It is our hope that your visit to our site will help you learn more about Service Dogs and their very important
jobs. The bond that a working team has is not like anything they would/will have ever experienced before. The
working team becomes one and the same, much like your arms, legs, ears, and eyes. The Service dogs are going
to impinge upon the lives of more than their partners but also everyone around them.
Service Dogs brings out the shyest person our shell because your disability is over looked. When other see our
dogs out in public it seam to capture everyone attention, it start by the person coming over to pet our dogs.
**********PLEASE DO NOT PET ME I AM WORKING*****************************
Petting a Service Dog can be a extremely hazardous, distancing that dog from it job means that it could miss a
car coming, a seizure, getting to close to a stair, just to name a few. Think of it as surgeon in the middle
of heart surgery and someone divert their attention away and they miss something important, that could cause
the person to die. I hope that this explanation will help you see the important of our dogs.
**********PLEASE DO NOT PET ME I AM WORKING*****************************
If you have dog you know that they need to be walked therefore you have to get out, which means you are
getting some exercise. You also are out and shopping, which not only great for business, but your general
health also. A service Dog frees up human aids so that the wait for an aid could be shortened. Most Parents take less
sick time and are more focused on their job because the dog, they are less worried about their child,
their own health improve because they are less worried and are getting more sleep.
One of the down sides of Service Dogs as that in some cases it reduces the amount of mediation, which I
am sure the drug companies are not happy about. When teaming up children and Service Dogs the impact on their lives is so awe-inspiring that these children
go from being on the outside looking in to being in the center of everything the dogs seams to make the disability
disappear. The other children all want to be friend with the child with the cool dog.
I have being apart of some wonderful matching over the last few years. Like a child who for the first time in
her life could be left out side with just her dog, her parent knowing that not harm would come to her.
A parent who can sleep at night knowing that if their is a problem the dog will alert them. Peace of mind
knowing that your child is out of harms way because her dog will not allow her to cross the road go or
up/down the stairs prior to a seizure. I have watched children and Adults who both have seizure find a
sense of safety, comfort, self worth because their dog does not pass judge them. Coming out of a seizure
with their dog right there seams to help with the post dictail state, I have even hear someone say that
since they got their dog they seam to come out of the seizure sooner. Having a dog that can alert prior
to a seizure can save the person from injuries because their dog can get them out of harms way.
The largest and the most varied category of Service Dogs is those that assist their Partner in ways other
than the traditional Guide Dogs or Hearing Dogs do.
What is a Service Dog?
A specially trained dog who becomes your arms, legs and even your ears, they help with everyday tasks like
- picking up dropped items: such as pen, ppencils, money, paper, and many other things
-Open and close: doors, cupboards, bags, aand other things like that
-Alerting to: A Seizure, a baby or child ccrying, a timer going off, a phone ringing, someone at the door,
alerts a care giver that a person is up and moving, and other things like that.
- Balancing, Bracing steadying you, Brace you when falling or getting up
- Stops a child and or adult from: boltingg out into traffic, prevent a person from being in harms way.
- Aid in: turning on and off lights, pulliing up covers, taking off shoes and socks, building self esteem,
calming, comforting, helps one feel safe, non judging, becoming the best friend and the extension of that
person or child and a whole lot more.
What is a Seizure Alert Dog?
A Seizure Alert Dog is any dog which to alert a person with epilepsy or any seizure disorder about when
that person will have a seizure. Seizure Alert Dogs are Service dogs which can accurately predict when
their partner will have a seizure. This ability to predict a seizure cannot be trained for, but dogs with
an innate ability can be trained to alert appropriately. No-one knows how the dogs can tell, but many
scientists believe that the dogs sense or smell a change in body chemistry which may be the prelude to
a seizure. When given accurate warning that a seizure will occur, a person can get to safety (a place
where they can't hurt themselves during the seizure) and be prepared when it comes. Seizure Alert Dogs
are especially helpful for people who have drop seizures, which occur without warning and often cause injury.
What is a Seizure Response Dog?
A Seizure Response Dog is a Service Dog which is trained to respond, NOT alert to, a seizure. The dog is
trained to act appropriately, can be trained to get help, and to help the person recover from the seizure.
What is a Guide Dogs?
A Guide Dogs is trained to guide a blind people so that they are able to negotiate the world otherwise
unassisted. They serve as, quite literally, the eyes for their owner. It is illegal any where in the US, or Canada,
or Britain, and most other countries, to deny a blind person guided by a dog access to any public place.
What is a Hearing Ear Dogs?
A Hearing Ear Dogs are trained to assist deaf people, with varying degrees of impairment. They alert
their owner to a variety of sounds, usually by coming up to the person and going back to the source of
the sound. They will signal on door bell and knocking, phones, smoke alarms, crying babies and much
more.
In the US, they enjoy the same rights of access as guide dogs and are to be permitted anywhere, although
since they are not as widely recognized.
Are Pet Therapy Dogs the same as Service/Assistance Dogs?
Please note that while legally speaking, therapy dogs are NOT service dogs and NOT entitled to the same benefits
that service dogs are (entrance to any public building or transportation),
Smokey's Assistance Dogs Foundation feeds our dogs Pro Plan Dog Food. We are proud member of the Purina
Pro Plan club. For information on become a member of the Pro Plan club please
contract us.
Disclaimer:
We do not endorse any of the Service or Products listed here However we set up these pages up so that anyone
who wanting to get a Service Dog can research and become well versed on this subject.
Linking to our site:
It is our policy that link to our site must be approved first. We will also add a link to your site also.
Once we have approved the link, we have a Banner, located on our Banner Page.
if you click on
the different dogs on the bottom of each page it will take you back to the directory
I hope you will come back and see our site. Should you require more information please contract us.
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