Dogs with Jobs

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[Kresge College at UCSC @KresgeCollege]

It's Kresge Core's final project week! Below is the twitter account two of our students created to raise awareness of service dogs and the important role they serve in the lives of their handlers. @ucsc #PowerandRepresentation

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Eventually Beans will be able to alert their handler before they go into tachycardia rhythm. Beans can also pull them in their wheelchair.

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Meet Beans! Bean’s handler has ehlers danlos syndrome and post orthlo statictachycardia syndrome. His job is to retrieve their blood pressure medication and lay on their feet because they become cold due to poor circulation. (1/2)

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handler from nightmares and to perform deep pressure therapy.

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Meet Hazel! Hazel is a year & five months & has been working with her handler since she was two. She is training to be a psychiatric service dog & has to make sure her handler doesn't have panic attacks or faint. Hazel is learning to guide, wake up her (1/2)

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Jodie has made Lexy a social butterfly, and has helped her mental help health. (2/2)

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Meet Jodie! She is a ten-month-old psychiatric service dog for college student, Lexy Petteys. Jodie's job is to calm Lexy down by pawing & laying on her legs before any psychiatric episodes occur (anxiety attacks & passing out). (1/2)

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allows to be petted for long periods of time by his handler, letting him become the focus of attention for them.
Max has become a bridge to life for his handler :)

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Meet Max! Max has been working as a service dog for his handler for about a year, his job is to help ground & provide calming & regulatory sensory input for his handler to counteract bad sensory input. Max lays in various positions, licks, bumps, & (1/2)

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Meet Jayden! Jayden is a guide dog and he is able to guide his handler safely around obstacles so that she does not run into things.

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Meet Remington! Remington is a medical alert dog. He also is able to do cardiac alerts and respond to panic attacks by doing deep pressure therapy.

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Meet Logan! Logan is a mobility service dog in training. His handler has a condition called postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. Logan is able to help her with fatigue by providing forward momentum, counterbalance, and picking up dropped items.

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Meet Tundras! Tundras is a mobility assistance dog in training. He helps retrieve dropped items & once he is fully grown he will be able to help his handler by doing counterbalance and forward momentum pulling. He will also be able to do other tasks like deep pressure therapy.

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Athena is also able to recognize signs of an oncoming dissociative episode. She is also able to recognize when heart rate is escalating and is able to low it by applying her body weight on to her handler when they are lying down. This is called deep pressure therapy. (2,2)

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Meet Athena! One of Athena's handlers disabilities is depersonalization disorder and this causes dissociative episodes. Athena is able to guide her handler to familiar places when they forget where they are or guide them to an exit. (1/2)

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Meet Summit! Summit is a medical alert dog(more specifically an allergen alert dog). His handler has severe celiac disease and he is able to check anything before she eats ti at tell her if it has any trace amounts of gluten or if it is good.

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Meet Juno! Juno is a psychiatric service dog and she alerts her handler before she has a panic attack & she performs deep pressure therapy to help calm her down. Her handler says, "She helps me feel human and she makes me want to go out..."

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Meet Molly! Molly is a multipurpose service dog specialized in psychiatric and medical alerts. She alerts to anxious behaviors & she is scent trained to recognize high levels of cortisol. She is also trained to find specific people and guide her handler when they are disoriented.

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Tusla also is able to able to retrieve dropped items, medications, & water. Soon she will be able to provide counter balance, high forward momentum,& bracing. Most importantly, Tusla helps her owner have the freedom to be more independent than what they thought was possible.(2/2)

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Meet Tusla! Tusla is a medical alert and mobility service dog. Her handler's disability causes them to pass out occasionally, and has also limited their mobility. Tusla's most important task is to alert her handler of a passing out episode before it happens. (1/2)

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Meet Benji! Benji is not fully trained yet, but when he is fully trained he will be able to do things like sense anxiety attacks and use deep pressure therapy to help stop them.