[nagdu] statistics on service animals

Angie Matney leadinglabbie at mpmail.net
Sun Jan 18 04:06:58 UTC 2009


Hi Ed and Toni,

Sorry for the misquote. (I tried to sen a correction, but I don't know if that made it to the list.)

Can you talk about how you reach the 30,000 figure?

Thanks,

Angie

On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:40:11 -0800, Ed and Toni Eames wrote:

>Dear Angie and All,

>Thanks for passing on the link to our article.  However, the figure 
>of 9,000 working assistance dogs should be working guide dogs.  We're 
>now estimating 30,000 working assistance dogs, which includes guide, 
>hearing and service dogs.  That's the figure we use in our revised 
>Partners in Independence DVD that has just been released.

>Ed and Toni

>At 08:03 PM 1/14/2009, you wrote:
>>Hi Liz,
>>
>>Ed and Toni Eames published an article in 1995 that estimated that 
>>there were 9,000 assistance-dog teams in the US. Even though this is 
>>an older article, you might find it interesting. Here's a link to 
>>the pdf version:
>>
>>www.dsq-sds-archives.org/_articles_pdf/2001/Summer/dsq_2001_Summer_06.pdf
>>
>>
>>If you go to google and type the following, with quotes, the article 
>>will be the first search result:
>>
>>"disability studies quarterly" "assistance dog"
>>
>>You can then click on "view as html" to read it, if you can't deal 
>>with the pdf directly.
>>
>>If you find any other stats, I hope you will share them. I'm always 
>>interested in this type of thing.
>>
>>HTH,
>>
>>Angie
>>
>>
>>On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:46:34 -0600, Elizabeth Campbell wrote:
>>
>> >Hello all,
>>
>> >Does anyone know if there are statistics out there on how many 
>> people wiht disabilities use service dogs and on how many use other 
>> types of service animals such as miniature horses or monkeys?
>> >I'm doing a story where such information would be very helpful.
>> >I told our editors that it may be difficult to come up with good 
>> figures since there is no agency to certify or register service animals.
>>
>> >Any help is grately appreciated.
>>
>> >Liz
>>
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