Roman the Service Dog

Hi! I'm Roman! I am a goldendoodle! I'm trained as both a balance and Autism Service Dog! I help my human, Dragon, with all the things she needs to do in her life. While I'm an Autism Service Dog, Dragon has a genetic anomaly called a 22q duplication, which impacts all kinds of things in how Dragon's brain and body works, so I do a lot of things! Dragon's mom is the third person in our team because Dragon is still a human puppy and needs help with my commands. This blog is about dogs like me and my adventures with Dragon!

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i am like losing my mind at this picture my friend sent me of his stepmom’s dog. that is a dust bunny

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Awwwwww I love happy endings

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Only fur

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Handsome boi

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Really cool graphic broadly explaining how we've selectively bred dogs over millenia for different jobs. Drives like herding and guarding prey animals may seem counterintuitive to the dogs' nature but these actions are in fact rooted in ancestral hunting instincts, we've just "muted" down the rest of the hunt sequence resulting in a kill (but even well bred dogs need training!). This is also why crossing dogs belonging to different job types should be carefully thought out, if your breeding goals are a calm nonworking companion animal the last thing you want is to breed is a royal flush of this predatory sequence.

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Is this what heaven looks like?

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Getting pampered

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