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Pet Tip
Service Dogs and Autistic Children – Pet Tip 253
Dogs help humans in so many ways. They help with companionship, with tasks that they carry out for us and sometimes they help make every day living much easier. Perhaps the best demonstration of this fact is when dogs help people with disabilities. Many of us have seen dogs helping blind people and many have heard of dogs that feel when a seizure in an epileptic person is about to occur and then protect them from injury. Dogs can also help aid autistic children and parents of autistic children in many ways as well. Recent studies suggest that the prevalence of autistic children in Canada may be 1 in 165 children or higher. Therefore, many people may well personally know of an autistic child in their extended family, or know of friends or acquaintances that have an autistic child. So how can dogs help these autistic children?
The National Service Dogs (NSD) organization in Ontario Canada, is one of the best organizations that specifically help train dogs to make the lives of autistic children better. You might be wondering how a service dog can be useful to autistic children
- Owner:
- Chantal Theriault
- City:
- Charlesbourg
- Province, Country:
- QC, Canada
- Type/Breed:
- Labrador Mix
- Date of Birth:
- may 28 2001
- Sex:
- Male
- Height:
- 26
- Weight:
- 95
- Coat Colour:
- black
- Eye Colour:
- hazel
In my family, there is Mom, Dad and my three sisters. My dad decided to adopt me because he was feeling lonely for another male in the house (he is outnumbered) I am an enthousiastic dog that loves to take walks and especially go swimming!!!! My favorite place to walk is the woods near my place. It has a little stream that I can wade in. There are many things to see and smell. But the thing that I like the best is that I can go free, I don't need a leash!!! For me, it is doggy heaven. My family often says that when I will die of old age, they will bury me in those woods, my favorite place on earth!!!
As you can see, I am all black which makes it extremely difficult for my parents to take a good picture of me. I am so black that when we take a walk in the evening, I 'disappear', I am blacker than the night. I lost count of how many times my parents tripped over me going to the bathroom at night...
My most embarrassing moment was when my dad and sister were fooling around at my grandparents pool and dad threw sister in the water and I wanted to participate too but got too close to them and fell head first into the pool. (I hate getting my ears wet)...well everyone laughed at me for a good while. Now I'm careful about not standing too close to them.
I love children and am very careful with them around. I am also gentle with older people, I know when to be calm around them. My best (dog) friend is Jesse, a benji-type dog. We love to run around together but she tires faster than me, she being so small. I cry every time I see her outside. We are neighbors, you know.
