My Support Forums - View Single Post - have others found safety in a service dog?

anderson · Nov 16, 2011, 06:13 PM

Wysteria,
We got sasha as a puppy and training her ourselfs. we tried going through an agency but the wait was so long.
Im still trying to learn how to post personal pics. Im trying to get my son to help us.

CantExplain,
service dogs can be trained to remind u to take your meds and many more things as well.
Sasha helps us out a lot by her reality checks for us. We call her our evaluator. when we see or feel unsafe by something, we ask her to check. then see looks around. she will either pull us out of the place or bark to make others look at us. So we no longer feel so scared.
She even started to go to people that she liked to let us know we be safe with them.
We call them pup approved!

many of the things she does for us, we shaped and rewarded the skills that we needed from her. To help us relearn to be safe again both inside with each other and those around us.
She also wears a vest with pockets so she carries the things that we tend to loose alot. now we all put those things in one place.

Bmee2,
The first year was hard we live by ourselfs so we had to find ways to take care of her and us at the same time. We got Sasha as a 2 months old from a second chance center. she is a mixed breed so we dont relly know what she is for sure. We spent almost 2 weeks visiting her to make sure that we could work together. There are places online that can help you to train a service dog. The hardest thing for us was getting the doctor note that said that having a service would help us with our invisiable disability.
have there been times we felt lost yes, but in truth sasha has become our friend and our protector. In truth it is just like any other relationship it strengthen with trail and errar. and learn to comunicate with each other.

Hunny,
This last year has been so eventful for us. right now sasha is playing with us as we are typing. she puts her toy on the key board so we can throw it for her. She is the one being that accepts us no matter who is out and the tasks she performs are based on the alters that are out to. It is a very rare human being that can and will do that for someone with DID.
Miss u and hope to be able to talk in chat soon!

missbelle,
Thanks for the response we still post here to see if we can talk with outher with service dogs cause we would like to know how they work for them. for us we find it easier to trust animals then humans.
animals when they are ground they will help each other to heal. Humans can learn from them to when they are open to them.