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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:
- Hunter19515
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- Sex:
- Male
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- Coat Colour:
- grey and white
- Eye Colour:
- green
In 2003 we got a kitten from a friend who said he was dropped off on his door step and he couldn't keep him so we took him. We got him looked out by the vet and found out he was 6 weeks old. He was very adventurous and loved to play. At the time we had my other cat Mufasa and at first they didn't get along because he wanted to play with her and also bugged her alot so they didn't get off on good term for about 2 years. Like mufasa he was also alllowed outside once he hit a year old. his first few months he was catching mice,moles,birds and by two years old he was catching baby and adult rabbits it was amazing i had never seen any of my cats ever catch a rabbit not even my previous cat smiba who mysteriously disapeared. The bad thing about patches being an outdoor cat however was he followed me where ever i went. i was going to meet a friends up the street and had to cross at the lights nad patches followed me all the way so i had to turn around and walk all the way back home with him then put him inside and told my parents not to let him out till i was out of sight. He sure was a trouble maker. In 2006 three years after getting patches he got lucimia and i had to make the difficult choice between medicine that had less then a 50% cahnce of working or put him to sleep. When i went to go and see how he was doing before i made the choice he was in horrible condition he couldn't even lift his head. So i made the choice to put him to sleep because he was in so much pain. I was 3 when he was uthanized.
He was a beloved and treasured cat and will never be forgotten
R.I.P
