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Buy a shirt today and help Casey bring her new prospect home!
Finished my fundraiser shirts. $10 from each shirt goes towards the campaign. I would greatly appreciate it if you guys could share this around and feel free to buy a shirt!
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To those who ask why or don’t think I need a Service Dog
Since I started my fundraiser for my new service dog prospect I have had a lot of people that are close to me and people who are not close to me say I don’t need a service dog or want to know why I need one. I’ve had people say to me that I don’t look disabled or say that I don’t need a service dog because I’m not blind. So I am writing this to clear up misconceptions about service dogs and their handlers and their disabilities so that people may understand more about them.
Types of Service dogs
Service dogs are not just for the blind. There are many different types of service dogs and they can perform one of more of the follow duties.
Guide dog: To guide their visually impaired or blind handler. Most are Labs, Goldens or German Shepherds, but they can be any sturdy, even-tempered, medium or large breed dog.
Hearing dog: To alert their deaf or hearing impaired handler to specifically trained environmental sounds, including, but not limited to, alarms, doorbells, knocking, phones, cars or their name. Hearing Dogs can be trained to respond to any environmental sound or cue their handler needs to know about. Just because you can’t see what a Hearing Dog is responding to doesn’t mean he’s not working.
Mobility Assistance dog: A Brace/Mobility Support Dog works to provide bracing or counterbalancing to a partner who has balance issues due to a disability. Many BMSDs also retrieve, open/close doors or do other tasks to assist in day-to-day life or in an emergency. Brace/Mobility Support Dogs must be large enough to safely support their human partner. In general, must be at least 23″ tall and 55 pounds to perform brace/counterbalance work safely, common breeds used for mobility are Labs, Standard Poodles, Great Danes, and Great Pyrenees. Service Dog Project is a well know mobility dog program that breeds, raises and trains Great Danes.
Diabetic Alert dog: To alert their handler to dangerous or potentially deadly blood sugar highs and lows. Many dogs are trained to call 911 on a special K-9 Alert Phone if their partner cannot be roused.
Seizure/Epilepsy Alert dog: Alerts to oncoming oncoming seizure, sometimes with as much as 15 minutes warning to allow handler to take medication or get to a safe place.
Seizure Response Dog: Respond to their handler’s seizures via trained tasks. The dog may retrieve medication, utilize deep pressure stimulation to end a seizure early, fetch a nearby person to help or call 911.
Psychiatric Service Dog: To assist their handler with a psychiatric disability such as anxiety, depression or PTSD via specific, trained tasks such as deep pressure therapy, guiding their handler to a safe space or out of a store during during an episode if possible, getting help, grounding their handler via tactile stimulation, self harm interruption, and many more. Psychiatric Service Dogs are protected under the same federal laws that protect other Service Dogs. They must be given the exact same treatment and access rights. Emotional Support Animals (ESAs) and Therapy Dogs are NOT the same as Psychiatric Service Dogs and are not covered under the ADA, and nor do they have any public access whatsoever.
Autism Assistance Dog: Assist in calming and grounding via tactile or deep pressure stimulation. May also assist in teaching life skills, maintaining boundaries or finding their handler if they’ve wandered off.
Allergy Detection Dog: Alert their handler to life-threatening allergens that may be in the area, especially tree nuts, gluten or shellfish
Medical Alert Dog: Alert their handler to dangerous physiological changes such as blood pressure, heart disease, asthma, and illnesses that cause dizziness or potential loss of consciousness when standing.
Wheelchair Assistance Dogs: Assist their partner by retrieving dropped objects, opening doors, retrieving the phone, helping with transfers or anything else their partner may need.
Service Dogs have many jobs and can perform one or multiple of the above jobs with tasks that mitigate their handlers disability.
Why I need a Service Dog
I have had people ask me this question so many times or say things to my friends. I have had people say that I am not blind and therefore don’t need one. Well as you can see by the above that that they do more than just assist the blind. I have also had people tell me that I can’t have PTSD because I am not in the military. PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is defined as a condition of persistent mental and emotional stress occurring as a result of injury or severe psychological shock, typically involving disturbance of sleep and constant vivid recall of the experience, with dulled responses to others and to the outside world. PTSD can develop from many different types of traumas and the brain is in survival mode trying to protect itself. Losing my brother at 16 was one of the traumatic events I suffered as well as a sexual assault that happened less than a year after Ryan died. I suffer from flashbacks, dissociation, severe anxiety, and nightmares/night terrors that severely impact my ability to function normally on a daily basis. Not all disabilities are visible and people need to try and understand that and not judge others.
What a Service Dog can do for me.
A service dog will be able to do many things for me that will help me manage my day to day life and return to some normalcy.
Alert to anxiety and panic attacks through their indicators whether that be my leg shaking, picking at my skin, scratching, twiddling my thumbs or rapid breathing
Crowd control by putting his body between me and other people in the form of blocking (Standing solidly in front of me), covering(Standing solidly behind me), and circling (circling around me to keep people away)
Preform Deep Pressure Therapy by applying pressure with his body to pressure points that helps calm and ground me
Clear rooms and alert me if someone is present
Turn on lights to aid in showing no one is present or to help in case of night terrors or flashback and light is needed
Get help (to find and bring help to me)
Lead me to safety or out of a building
Ground/flashback interruption
Self harm interruption that may happen during a flashback or panic attack
Alert to person coming up behind me
Nightmare interruption
I did not ask nor want this. To live my life in this way sucks and I panic easily, get startled from little things, such as thinking I saw my attacker, or mistaking a shadow for a person where they shouldn’t be. Seeing a car crash is very triggering for me and can send me into a panic attack that can cripple me for the rest of the day. I can barely work, and even have to call out on the sometimes on the days that I do. I hate doing so, I love the barn, it’s a place that I would gladly spend every day at from sunrise to sunset… and my mental illnesses get in the way of what I love and I hate it. A service dog will be able to help me through my daily life and return to a normal life. I’ll be able to work regularly again and go places by myself in confidence and in safety. This was not something I decided to do lightly. After Legend was washed from training I considered not even looking for a new prospect, but talking with my therapist I knew that I shouldn’t give up. I was afraid of the judgement and what friends or family, or my friend’s families may say. I am proud to day that I have some of the best friends on the planet who have been there for me through all of this and the best boyfriend in the world who is willing to help me however he can.
I’ve had people say that I am raising this money just because I want to a puppy to play with and cuddle. I already have the best cuddle buddy in the world in my amazing boy Legend… but Legends temperament didn’t work out for him to become a Service Dog. For Legend he’s too timid and he’s protective, which I don’t mind, but that means he can’t be a service dog. It is not a job that just any dog can do. It takes a dog with a very specific temperament which comes through generations of breeding dogs for that temperament, disposition, and willingness to work. But even that doesn’t mean they’ll succeed, they then go through 2-2 ½ years of extensive training, starting with basic and going through specialized training for their task and public access training. A lot of dogs no matter their temperament can learn to perform the right tasks, but not just any dog can deal with the public, getting tails stepped on, random children running up and pulling their ears, tails rolled over by carts, people yelling or trying to hurt them, loud noises, sudden noises, unfamiliar surfaces, elevators, escalators, etc.
Why would I put that much time, effort and money into a dog just to cuddle and play with it?! I’ve been afraid of the things people would say, but I am not any longer, now it just makes me angry, but I also realize people don’t understand. So many people have the image of what they think a service dog is and what it does, but they can be any size and any breed. Yes even a chihuahua can be a service dog, I know a few handlers that have one for diabetic or other medical alerts. But that doesn’t mean that people’s words don’t still get to me or even that people I know extremely well still don’t completely understand what I am going through. I’ve had night where I’ve broken down over things I’ve been told were said about me or that I have had directly to me. Just because you don’t understand something doesn’t mean it isn’t true. My new puppy will change my life, and yes I will cuddle and play with him, but he is going to be trained as a working dog, his job will be to be my partner and help me through the day when I can’t help myself. He is going to give me my life back and no matter what people say or think they can’t stop us from being the best team we can be.
My daughter, Casey, is a wonderful young women who faces challenges brought on by a variety of issues from her past. Casey was born at only 24 weeks gestation at a little over 1 lb and given only a 50% chance or less of survival. Her premature birth caused lung issues, a brain bleed at one week of...
We have raised $1,201 so far! We need $2000 more to be able to bring my new boy home.
Buy a shirt today and help Casey bring her new prospect home!
Finished my fundraiser shirts. $10 from each shirt goes towards the campaign. I would greatly appreciate it if you guys could share this around and feel free to buy a shirt!
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I don’t even know where to start right now. Things have gotten really bad for me lately, this week in particular brought everything to a head. My boss and the head trainer of the barn I work at are extremely worried about my mental health, how it’s effecting me as well as my job. They have both said I do a great job but right now the unpredictability of when I’ll call out do to my flashbacks and panic attacks is making it hard on the barn owner as he is having some personal stuff going in right now. So they are letting me go for now until I get things together. I will still work one or two days a week as I owe the barn owner from a loan as he is a friend and helped me with the purchase of my car. So I will be working to pay him back, and I am going to be putting my horse on full lease. Thursday though I didn’t know what I was going to do and I was a complete mess. I had to call out of work do to a severe panic attack and I received the news of them letting me go not soon after. I a good 4 hours curled in bed with my boyfriend trying to get through my panic attack. But I still wasn’t really with it and kept dissociating. Thankfully yesterday the head trainer who is also my really good friend, Eden, texted me and helped me work through things and figure out what I was going to do, as I’ve been working off my horse’s board, paying back Tim (the barn owner), and working extra days for money. So we had to figure out everything as we all knew I couldn’t keep this up. I’m happy that we now have a tentative plan, my mom now knows, but my dad does not… and that in itself is terrifying. My mom will be talking to him tomorrow and I am not ready for it, I’m scared of how he’ll react. On the bright side it gives me more time to focus on my service dog fundraiser and at least get work on that done.
With Legend washed we now begin the process of getting a new prospect. We are working with our training to find a breeder and evaluate both the mother and puppies to find the best service dog prospect and go from there. So far in the last week we’ve raised $315 which has amazed me from the friends and family who have donated, but we have a long way to go. I have contacted one of the breeders we are looking at and am currently getting more information, as they are high on our list. If anyone can help us out through donating or sharing that would be amazing. www.youcaring.com/HelpCaseyCrowleyGetAServiceDog #servicedog #servicedogintraining #labrador #lab #labsofinstagram #labpuppy #puppy #fundraiser #servicedogfundraiser #dogs #servicedogprospect #dogtraining #cptdogtraining #comprehensivepettherapy #puppies #breeder #dogbreeder
This post is a little late. I washed Legend from training just after Christmas. It had been something I’d been talking to friends and family about for about a month or so. I was struggling with whether to do so or not. When we originally started training him, my trainer said he had a high fail rate do to his temprament as well as having been a pet and was raised different than a service dog would have been raised. I finally made the decision because I don’t like seeing Legend so stressed and though he did well in some public places, others if something scary happened he would shut down and there would be no working past it. We made the decision based on what is best for him and for me. He will happily live out the rest of his life as a pet with us as he did before he began training. #servicedogintraining #servicedog #washed #washedservicedog #greatdane #greatdanesofinstagram #dog #dogsofinstagram #training #dogtraining #pet #publicaccess
Update for those interested in the Service Dog aspect of my life.
My two boys in purple. :) Strider got a bath yesterday since it was the last warm day we’ll have for awhile and put his cooler on him while I let him graze and dry. Today put Legends winter blanket on since we went for a walk and it was in the 30s and raining. #greatdane #greatdanesofinstagram #servicedogintraining #greatdaneservicedog #winter #coldoutside #greatdaneinablanket #giantdog #dogblanket #horse #quarterhorse #tenneseewalker #horsecooler #magesticpony #beautifulboys #boysinpurple
Legend and I are safe, a lot of rain today and wind. The wind will continue tonight but will slowly die down, supposed to be around 20mph in the morning. Luckily will still have power, but I have many friends who don’t. Grandparents and Aunt will be staying until Wednesday then they’ll drive back to Florida. My Uncle who stayed there said my grandparents house is okay, but his has flooding on his street so he doesn’t know the damage to his house yet, he stayed with his girlfriend through the storm.
For all my followers, Legend and I are safe. I'll be going to the barn in the morning to do chores and will get to see Strider. Tim said that there's no trees down and all the stalled horses have been in since early this afternoon and he didn't turn them out tonight. And pasture horses are safe and taking shelter in the run in sheds. Hopefully no trees fall over night. Tim said though that he's had no power since 2:30 so hopefully he'll have power back sometime tomorrow.
If I have any followers in Florida/SC/NC that need shelter for their horses from the hurricane, the barn I board at has 20+ stalls open.. I also have one room available if someone needs to stay, pets allowed.
Located in Shelbyville, TN.
Update!! The beautiful Rising Star Ranch posted this on their page-
Watching Irma barrel toward Florida we at Rising Star Ranch would like to offer refuge to any horse owners that would like to evacuate their horses to a safe place to ride out the storm. We have at least 50 stalls available and would encourage those evacuating to call us.
Please contact David Williams at 931-639-1081.
God Bless those in Irmas path and safe travels to higher ground.
A truly wonderful barn with an indoor arena, and provides excellent care to their horses. Another wonderful possibility for my friends out there!
The Kentucky Horse Park has also opened up 200 stalls for evacuated horses.
http://www.kyhorsepark.com/news/kentucky-horse-park-offers-help-hurricane-irma-evacuees
“The Kentucky Horse Park has opened stabling to horses that are being evacuated from areas expected to be impacted by Hurricane Irma. 200 stalls are available on a first-come, first-serve basis beginning today until September 17 for $20 per stall per night.
“Although we have limited capacity, it’s important for us to help however we can,” said Laura Prewitt, Executive Director of the Kentucky Horse Park. Due to contractual obligations with scheduled horse shows, no pasturing, lunging or riding will be possible. A negative Coggins test is required for stabling.
To reserve stalls, please contact Sheila Forbes in the park’s Equine Operations Department, at 859/259-4290 or at [email protected]. Any additional information will be made available on the park’s website at www.kyhorsepark.com.“
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Thanks for the memories. Going to miss you on the track. Here’s to a long and happy retirement as a broodmare.
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I want everyone to meet my first horse, Strider. I bought him in July and he is the cutest, sweetest thing on the planet. He's 10 yrs old and is a quarter horse/Tennessee Walker. He isn't gaited and he is perfect for me because he's enough of a challenge for me to learn and grow as well as allowing him to learn and grow with me.
Realize the San Diego Handicap will be happening at the same time as the SDCC Marvel panel: this is a legit problem.
Oh god… the scheduling conflict… at least the race is only a couple minutes out of the panel. Watch it end up being a crucial few minutes though.
Yeah I posted this before realizing a lack of live stream for Hall H. (I am stuck at home this year). So I’m probably going I sit in front of my tv and refresh twitter. Constantly.
Yeah... Hall H loves to be so hush hush about most things. I wish I was there at either Hall H or at Del Mar, but I have the love stream up for Del Mar and am following both on fb and twitter for Hall H.
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Realize the San Diego Handicap will be happening at the same time as the SDCC Marvel panel: this is a legit problem.
Oh god... the scheduling conflict... at least the race is only a couple minutes out of the panel. Watch it end up being a crucial few minutes though.
Talk about a late season foal. Kind of surprised to be honest. I figured originally they would skip this year just so she could get on the earlier half of the breeding cycle.
Holy cow. First of all, what a late foal. That makes zero sense … but finally they’re breeding her to a stallion with more speed and precocity. I’ve been wanting this for a while - not Into Mischief specifically, but that type
Surprised by the late baby, but super excited to see a Mischief x Zen baby
Also surprised at the mention that Cozmic One is back on the track. O_o I assumed he was retired after 2 years of nothing.
You’d think, right? 🙃
Yeah I was genuinely surprised when someone posted the Virtual Stable notification on Facebook for Coz.
As for this particular baby someone was saying apparently the filly was earlier then they expected. So they decided to try her once to Into Mischief and if she didn’t catch they would give her the year off. And well she caught so now she’s going to have a 2018 foal and 2019 off.
I mean considering that even if it wasn’t a late season foal probably the foal wouldn’t develop until their 3 going by the entire family it doesn’t really matter in the long run. It’s just surprising.
