[nagdu] Puppies behind bars

[Pickrell, Rebecca M (IS)]

Wow, this is a great example of task training for mental disorders. 
Excellent stuff. 

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Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 8:25 AM
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Subject: Re: [nagdu] Puppies behind bars

After listening to the show, I deduce that the program at least started
in New York, since they have trained dogs for Guiding Eyes.  The puppies
spend the week with the inmates, then go out for the weekends to get a
taste of life in the outside world.

Much of the show was about a new program to give service dogs to wounded
veterans.  One of the guests has post-traumatic stress, and explained
how his dog helps with that.  He said he is hyper-alert, always looking
for snipers and potential bombs, instead of seeing a harmless
supermarket or mall.  So, if he's in a store, coming up to a corner in
the aisle, he tells his dog to "pop the corner", and she goes ahead and
looks around the corner, then signals him if someone is there.  That
way, he's not startled by coming upon someone unexpectedly.  The same
when he's standing in the line for the cashier--the dog watches behind
him, and if someone is coming up behind him, she puts herself between
her person and the other person, so he knows the other person is there,
and so he still has the space he needs.  They also said that some people
have PTSD so bad they sometimes go catatonic, just curl up and stop
responding.  Their dogs are trained to use a big phone to call 911 if
that happens.  It was very interesting.
Tracy


> Lora,
>
> Your Trice is the first working guide I've "met" from that program.  I

> can see the reasons it's a good idea in some respects but have really 
> wondered how it works in reality, since a guide dog needs to be 
> exposed -- or so traidition has it -- to everything imaginable.
>
> I am really interested to see how your new guy does as you go on in 
> the wide, wide world.  I'm glad you have such a good guy after all 
> your troubles with her former dog!. /smile/
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf Of Lora
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 1:45 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Puppies behind bars
>
> My dog was raised in a Prison, but was raised in Ohio.
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Today's Fresh Air program on NPR is about Puppies Behind Bars, 
>> prisoners raising service dogs.  The particular program is in Bedford

>> Hills, which I think is in Michigan, so maybe they raised Lora's 
>> Tryce.
>> Fresh Air is availlable as a podcast, probably from npr.org, as well 
>> as on the radio.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
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