#psychiatric service dog | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

fayeandknight · 26 days

Text

Tried hiding my keys in an entirely new spot and he still found them pretty quickly. I think this might be his favorite tasks, he loves finding the keys.

#dogblr #forte #belgian tervuren #psychiatric service dog #service dog #task training #i love how happy he is to work #he's a good egg

65 notes · View notes

arwenthegreat · 6 months

Text

Excuse me?? Is this... The prettiest dog who ever lived???

95 notes · View notes

dog-gutz · 4 months

Text

This Friday Molly got to meet a robot! The local junior high robotics team dedicated some time to come to the nursing home where I work so the patients could see their robot and learn about how it works! Me and my coworkers agreed it was a great opportunity for Molly to learn how to function around unexpected things, she did VERY well considering you don't see robots everyday. The team was nice enough to let me get a photo of the bot with Molly, and she thoroughly enjoyed watching it wander around the floor (I let her watch the bot for awhile since it was a new experience and expecting her to focus right away was just completely unrealistic). She was able to effectively task and listen to commands even while watching her environment which is exactly what I hoped for. Great job Molly!

72 notes · View notes

lost-spoons · 2 months

Text

I'm honestly not sure if I've mentioned this on here before, but here we go.

I've been looking into getting a service dog for a few years. What breed would be best for the tasks I need, if I should get a program trained dog or if I should owner train, what it costs to get said service dog and anything they need or would like, how to take care of a dog, what are the laws around service dog prospects and housing, what are the laws for service dogs, etc. etc.

Up until now, it's all been more of a thought experiment than anything else because my father established a "No Dogs Under My Roof" policy a long time ago, and despite a service dog being medical equipment, the answer to if I could get one is a hard "Not Under My Roof"

But! We're finally down to the last year or two of community college before I transfer to a 4 year where I'll be living on my own and can thus get a dog. So I'll be looking into breeders to see what their wait lists are like and check to make sure the breeder I decide to go with is actually an ethical breeder.

I've debated on breeds for a while. Poodles are hypoallergenic but require a lot of hair maintenance and will matte up fairly quickly if I forget to brush them due to a flare-up, so they're a no. Doberman seemed like a good fit as they met most of my requirements. However, I was informed that they're a velcro breed that are very protective, which makes sense since they are breed to be guard dogs, but that doesn't work if i need a strangers help. Goldens and labs are quite similar in most things regarding my list of requirements but didn't end up being my final choice.

I've decided to go with German Shepherds for the breed, as I need mobility, medical alert, and psychiatric tasks. That's quite a bit for one dog, but German Shepherds are breed specifically to be working dogs with varying jobs, so while I'll need to be careful with training to keep them from burning out as a puppy, they're my best bet.

I've decided on owner training supplemented with a professional trainer's support/assistance.

The mobility tasks in question aren't weight bareing, and even if they were, I'm aware that type of training doesn't start before the vet okays it around 2 or so years old. Sometimes, my vision stops working, or I'll get horribe brain fog making me very confused, and I can't bend down to pick things up off the floor unless I'm sitting, so think along those lines for mobility tasks.

The medical alert is for POTS and maybe migraines. I'm not sure how migraine alerts work yet, i still need to look into that one, but I know how to do the POTS ones.

The psychiatric tasks are to tell me if I'm displaying anxious habits cause I don't notice them and can't feel when I am due to a disconnect in my brain from physical reaction and emotional reaction. I react physically but can't emotionally, which means i can have the bodily reaction of a panic attack and all the issues that creates but I think im perfectly fine. Which is oh so fun to deal with (can you hear the sarcasm?) Plus a few other things I don't feel like sharing that I need help with.

If anyone has anything helpful to add, please do. I've looked into things, but research can only get you so far

#chronic illness #postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome #disabled #ehlers danlos syndrome #chronic pain #hypermobile ehlers danlos #pots syndrome #chronically ill #disability #spoonie #service dog #medical alert dog #psychiatric service dog #mobility service dog

27 notes · View notes

rrcenic · 5 months

Text

if you have a psychiatric service dog, please read!!

hello lovely folks of tumblr!

my parents and i are currently in the research process of getting me a psychiatric service dog, trained to help me with panic attacks and/or self harm prevention.

we can’t seem to find very reliable resources for locations or programs to train a puppy that has basic obedience training and needs to learn things like putting its weight against me when i have a panic attack or seeking help when i shut it out to s/h.

if those on here with psychiatric service dogs, particularly those for the issues i described, would you help me out by sharing how/where you trained your dog?

literally anything helps. where you got your puppy (we’re currently looking at sandpoint we’re located a few hours from seattle, so anything in northwest washington works.

if you don’t have a service animal please still reblog so more folks can see this!!!

thank you so much <333

#nics stuff #service dog #dog #psychiatric service dog #disability #service animal #psychiatric service animal #help #mental disability #anxiety #depression #panic attacks #self harm #therapy #mental health

35 notes · View notes

asdpawprint · 4 months

Text

Service Dog at College: My Experience

It's been over a year now since I graduated, and I finally feel far enough removed to look back on the experience without instantly triggering a panic attack, so here's how my experience of going to college with my service dog went!

Max attended classes with me for 3 semesters in total. He was still "in training" for about half of his 1st semester, then considered "fully trained" the rest of the time. He did not live in the dorms with me because I didn't live in the dorms.

In preparation for taking him to class for the first time, we did a lot of training outings on campus over the summer. We primarily practiced 2 hour settles and leading me to exits. I also contacted my college's disability services to notify them that I would have my service dog with me. Luckily, they seemed to already understand the laws around service dogs, so it wasn't an issue.

Actually going to class usually went well. My professors and even fellow students were respectful. I only got asked to pet him a handful of times. He was only stepped on once by accident, even though it was sometimes hard to find a seat in class where he could lay out of the way. I preferred the computer lab classrooms because I could sit anywhere and always have enough room under the desk.

I had 1 class in a room where he had to lay in the way, and the only place he could fit at all was far from both exits. And the professor frequently went on tangents about triggering topics. So I was often stuck there during flashbacks or dissociative episodes. That sucked.

Sometimes professors would forget to give us the 15 minute break halfway through a 3 hour class. Technically, I could leave anyway, but I'd miss instruction. So Max got used to doing almost 3 hour settles. He'd get restless in the last 20 minutes or so, but never disruptive.

All the classrooms I was in had carpet, so I didn't bother bringing a mat for Max to lay on. If the floors had been hard, I would've brought one for his comfort. I offered him water and a potty break outside before and after every class, and during 15 minute breaks if we had them. I gave him treats throughout his work time, but we were never out long enough to feed a meal away from home.

The worst experience we had was graduation.

Before the ceremony was fine: security didn't seem to know what to do with us, so they just let us in without going through the metal detector. Someone from disability services guided me through the tables and forms I had to fill out. They let me sit off to the side for the beginning of the ceremony instead of walking through the miserable crowd of overstimulation (a line of previous graduates on either side) with my peers, and let me have a chair on the outside edge for the ceremony itself.

Then things started going wrong:

I didn't know ahead of time that the floor would be concrete, so I didn't have a mat for Max. He was very uncomfortable and shifted around a lot.

I couldn't wear a treat pouch or access my pockets under the gown, so Max had to work in an extremely overwhelming situation for hours with almost no rewards.

The people with cameras seemed to actively avoid me. I noticed several times that they'd do an overview of the crowd, then stop immediately before my row, then start again immediately past us. That was weird.

The guy telling each row when to start going towards the stage stepped on Max after staring at him multiple times. Then rushed us towards the stage before I could get any treats out of Max's vest pockets. That was very upsetting.

The stairs up to the stage were metal and creaky and had lots of gaps, but luckily Max is well socialized to weird stairs and walked up just fine.

The worst part of all was the end of the ceremony. They invited the whole entire audience to crowd into the arena we were sitting in to "collect their graduate." Luckily, Max perceived it as "So many new friends! How will I ever say hi to them all!" But I was completely out of it. By some miracle, my Dad was among the first into the arena and was able to lead me out. It took over a week for me to recover. I ended up sending an email to disability services suggesting that they should provide options to exit early because that situation easily could've been dangerous.

To summarize, my overall experience with bringing my service dog to college went well (everything else about college was horrible, but they did well with the service dog specifically), but graduation was a disaster.

#ember infodumps about service dogs #i use words #actually autistic #autism #disability #ableism #mental health #sensory overload #service dogs #autism service dog #service dog #psychiatric service dog #college #graduation #disabled

21 notes · View notes

hashtag-xolo · 5 months

Text

Gotta love it when dogs come up and try to bite your service dog who's minding their own business 🙃

Have to get the car inspected because NC requires yearly inspections. Dog in the shop came up to Tzapo who was giving perfectly polite body language of gentle greeting since dog got in his face and I gave him a nod. And the dog tries to fucking bite him 😞

Tzapo just looks at me like "but I'm baby?" As I interrupted the bite attempt. He's so good.

Shop people didn't see and the dog is now holed up so I'm not saying anything because I just want to get out of here.

#dogblr #tzapo #xoloitzcuintli #xolodog #xoloitzcuintle #mexican hairless dog #service dog #psychiatric service dog

47 notes · View notes

aftermathing · 6 months

Text

Once again tumblr do you have any advice for acquiring a psychiatric service dog :) ?

#PSD #service dog #Psychiatric service dog #Service animal #Service dog in training #Please I'm on the verge of killing myself there is no point in living in this much pain and isolation

24 notes · View notes

uchuujin-chan · 2 months

Text

if you’re wondering if psychiatric service dogs really improve lives

i don’t have panic attacks in grocery stores or crowds anymore (grounding, momentum, dpt)

i stopped biting my nails (interruption)

i don’t doomscroll or ruminate anymore (interruption, dissociation alert)

i can wake up in the morning without 6 alarms (dpt, stimulation)

i can sit through a meal without dissociating, and enjoy it! (grounding, sensory stimulation, dpt)

i can deescalate my anger (interruption, grounding, dpt)

i go new places on a whim and enjoy it (being a source of confidence, best friend)

pics of the goober making a con accessible for me ❤️

#service dog #federally protected #not emotional support #psych sd #psychiatric service dog #border collie #i do not recommend this breed for the average owner #as a pet let alone a service dog #experienced homes only #owner trained #professionally trained

17 notes · View notes

the-masked-ram · 10 days

Text

3 hours of work, he was so good. Finally the mental endurance is kicking in of his training. He surprises me every day, especially since he only graduated recently. He has some big paws to fill of his brother's but he is covering it in leaps and bounds.

#ram speaks #psychiatric service dog #rams dogs #service dog

12 notes · View notes

smoking-witch · 15 days

Text

Me & mah doggie, Willow Rosenberg. She's an American Akita, technically purebred but her breeders prioritized health and mild temperament, not cosmetics or "guarding". I've had her since she was a puppy, she'll be 9 in June. She's had a career as my mostly-at-home service dog (she is easily stressed out by public work, so I don't take her unless I can't get a support human), but is now mostly retired. Her main remaining duty is to help train her successor, which hopefully will happen later this year. She loves pizza and quesadillas, also hates peanut butter and nearly all dog food. She loves sniffing and throwing her ball for herself to chase. I taught her to pick stuff up and bring it to me, but she has yet to catch onto "fetch" and looks at me like "lady I just brought you that ball, if you wanted it why did you throw it away again, you need to sort yourself out"

12 notes · View notes

fayeandknight · 8 months

Text

Just had the cutest interaction while training Forte.

We were working on alternating between casual heeling/llw and fmp with him in harness around the block. We'd come full circle back to the driveway when I spotted a young kid on a bike coming up the road.

I put Forte in a down and planned to reward him as kid and dad passed by. But the kid saw Forte and stopped in front of us while repeatedly pointing out the doggy. (Kid was young, training wheels and dad's hand on the back of his seat.)

I could tell dad was getting uncomfortable because kid would not move on and was very fixated on Forte. So I looked at dad and explained that this dog is learning to be a service dog, which is a special dog who helps people. That this dog loves people but needs to be able to ignore them when he's working so he can focus on the handler. And if they had a few minutes, would they want to help me train him.

Dad relaxed and said yes. So I asked the kid if he could ride around real fast and call to the doggy. If the doggy stayed in his down I'd reward him with a tasty treat. Kid was pumped to do so. After a few minutes I thanked them both for helping me train my dog.

As the kid rode off I could hear him excitedly telling his dad "I helped train a service dog. They're really special dogs ". And dad agreed that he did and that he'd done a good job. Kid proceeded to say "I'm going to tell mom I helped train a service dog. Does she know they're special dogs?" To which dad said mom's going to be impressed because she knows those are special helper dogs and their training is really important.

It was such a wholesome interaction.

#dogblr #forte #belgian tervuren #service dog in training #psychiatric service dog #sdit #distraction training #kids are often a trigger for me so when i train around them it's usually at a distance #plus I'm sure the dad was nervous about his young son fixating on an unknown dog #so it really felt like a win for all to invite them to be part of the training #also it was so cute to hear the kid be so excited about helping train Forte #they moved into the neighborhood at the beginning of summer and this was our first real interaction #it felt really nice to have it be a positive learning experience #unrelated picture of Forte with his beloved piggy for tax

179 notes · View notes

arwenthegreat · 5 months

Text

A snow baby!!

When we take breaks at work, I give her time to go potty outside and run around and sniff a bit since it's a lot to expect of a dog to be focused the entire work day. It snowed over the last couple days and Arwen is *ecstatic*

88 notes · View notes

dog-gutz · 13 days

Text

Today I got an echo cardiogram and a heart monitor placed. If my horrible cardiologist did anything she at least did this for me. Molly was such a good girl for the whole procedure! She laid quietly the whole time, only moving to alert or when instructed to help me sit up from the bed.

I did get approval for her to be on the bed with me during the test, as I have a hard time sitting up and need assistance with almost any position changes. The tech said as long as she didn't get in the way, it would be fine, and Molly's a great dog and stayed completely out of the way.

I also brought 2 of my stuffed dogs with me, the golden retriever was a gift from my Pgf, kiki, and comforted me so much, especially when they put my IV in.

Overall the appointment went great an I was so impressed with Molly!

#service dog in training #mobility service dog #psychiatric service dog #service dog #service dogs #cardiac alert dog #dogblr #disabled #disabilities #actually disabled #chronically ill #chronic pain #chronic illness #chronic fatigue #pots syndrome #stuffed animals #stuffie #stuffies

26 notes · View notes

the-firefly-system1 · 2 months

Text

Sent a text to mom asking if we could get a teddy Roosevelt terrier puppy cause I found a breeder of them near us that health and temperament test their dogs

This is what they look like(not my image). I will train the puppy to hopefully be our service dog we have a golden retriever that was supposed to be our service dog but he is poorly breed and ended up not being the right kind of dog fit to be a service dog

These are the tasks the teddy Roosevelt terrier will do there is probably some more but can't remember right now

1.Pressure therapy

2.Nudging at and leaning into chest when dissociated or catatonic licking face if that doesn't work barking (if at home for barking)

3. Picking up small items I drop

4. migraine alert

5. Circling and blocking (not sure if this will work with a small dog)

6. Nudging pawing or jumping and then pressure therapy when harmful stimming or meltdown or other episodes 7. Helping determine if things are hallucinations

8. Distracting from hallucinations

9. tactile stimulation

10. Getting caregivers if we are unable to move

11 keeping us calm in public with stuff like deep pressure, tactile stimulation

Hopefully mom says yes. I'll update if she says yes or no.

#service dog #service dog prospect #autism service dog #psychiatric service dog #medical alert dog

10 notes · View notes

cryptcatz · 2 years

Text

me: sorry this is my service dog, he’s working so please don’t pet him

way too many people:

#like sir this is a Walmart. and this is just a dog #service dog #service dogblr #dogs #disability #psychiatric service dog #mobility service dog #chronic illness #spoonie #actuallydisabled #actuallychronicallyill #personal #flashing

155 notes · View notes