13 Reasons We Use a Service Dog Rather Than a Paid Caregiver ("service human")
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ย. 2024
- There are many reasons why we choose to be service dog handlers rather than hiring a paid caretaker. While this video certainly does not cover them all, hopefully it will help you understand some of the difference between the two.
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When my daughter got her first seizure alert dog it was so freeing for her dad,and I too. We knew she was in good hands (or maybe I should,say paws). She could go in a store alone. What a miracle for all of us.
It's really awkward asking friends or family or a paid caretaker to sleep in the same bed as you so they can wake you up if you have a nightmare!
Sometimes dogs are just nicer. What people see as a burden, service dogs see as an opportunity to help and get some love. I don't know about anyone else. But I don't want people watching me all night, or sleeping in my bed with me either. Thanks but I'll keep my dog. :)
Everyone needs to share her to their FB page these are some of the best videos about service dogs that I've seen. Educational beyond belief.
I've never been asked 'Can I pet your carer?''!!!
People asking to 'pet my dog' is an icebreaker for me, i'm normally really socially anxious. It's a good way to teach them how we don't like the distractions because they get closer to talk to while petting...I feel like I constantly have to yell to get people's attentions down to me in my chair.
I have never heard someone else say out loud how I feel until now. Thank you!!! I hate when people make a big deal out me me passing out, seizing, or what seems to them as me just being unresponsive. I hate the stares, the freaking out, the people trying to urge you to go to the hospital or wanting to call 911. For me it's just a part of life. I don't care how strange it is for them that I suddenly stop being able to respond, move, or anything. This is my life, how strange do they think it is for me when they all start hording in on me? Okay, sure, they just want to help, but they are not actually helping. We need people to be more aware, more understanding. I don't have a service dog. I don't have a service person. I'm getting the run around right now from SSD because I am disabled but refuse in home help. I have a ESA dog. But how does someone know they NEED a Service dog? Some times I can walk mostly fine, for short distances, and other times I am very much unable to even get out of bed because of pain and muscle/body fatigue.
+Kell Brigan Since when has an assistance dog had no opinion or needs of it's own? Mere dog?? I refuse in home 'care' because people with disabilities aren't in control of anything. We may have tasks all written out on what we may like help with, but the 'carer' may not read it. They may be paid based on how long they're in my home, I have known many caregivers who come into homes, spend the time drinking cups of coffee and then claim their money for 'being there'. A friend of mine had a coffee drinker come, leave and claim money, and she bitched to the org. who paid her that the home was in need of cleaning as it wasn't being kept up to her standards.
Mindy Wolff, your situation sounds so familiar! My dog stops people from hording in on me when I have a PA, but I also have social anxiety so he's needed for that, he also helps my balance (NOT weight bearing) while I'm out.
Caren Hall, thank you for understanding what I meant. Kell may have meant well, but from not knowing me as a person, or any one like me on a real basis, I can only find judgement and a huge amount of assumptions from her. My guess is that she is seeing someone she knows use an animal as some kind of emotional crutch, or she is just very short sighted and can not empathize. I agree there are many who need serious mental help via psychotherapy. As for me, I have tried other avenues. My therapist recommend the dog. He is not just a companion. Like those with PTSD, I have a friend, an encouragement to try harder (dogs must be walked), but he also learned to sense when I am having issues. What started as a simple therapy as turned into a dog that acts as a service animal. I did not think I needed it, but since he started warning me my attacks have decreased in severity. My dog has attitude, not mindless obedience. I do not require mindless obedience and am glad to have a dog who really has changed my whole life.
Ps- I am seriously too independent for another option. Plus for the reasons Caren Hall stated, let me say how I can not stand lazy people.
Kell reacted like my mum did when I told her about my 1st assistance dog, it's nothing I haven't gotten before!
Kell, if we wanted mindless obedience, we'd stick to machines. What many people don't realize is their labeling of us makes other people dehumanize us automatically, so we're feared as if the disability is contagious, or we're treated as idiots and no better then children. Dogs change that. To train a dog requires skills that many 'normal' people don't have, so it shakes up many people's worldview. Dogs have their own personalities too, we work with dogs and train them, like many others have said 'If the dog doesn't want to work we have to ask why. A forced dog doesn't work as well.'
***** You obviously don't like dogs, and perhaps other people. Why watch a video from an extremely nice woman who has and promotes the use of a service dog? I'm thinking you are here simply to trash on others. I'm not buying into you hate mongering. I have more self respect and a huge amount of respect for the owner of this channel to end up like you. Please go seek help for you obvious issues. I mean that with love and pity. I am not here to judge you, but I am very concerned over you. Please get help.
About #12 - I'd like to add that for some reason, those of us who are
relying on humans are often thought to have not grown up emotionally or
to have "helicopter parents" (if it is a parent helping) when we really
have PHYSICAL disabilities. Doctors especially tend to insist that if
you are a young adult with a service human you can't possibly have
anything physically wrong, it must be psychological.
Clare - Jelly-like Joints
Yessss.
I saw one Dr that saw my age and didn't bother reading my file, it's huge btw.
(And another that told me all my pain is in my head, that if I got off all my med my body would regrow my bone and heal all the way back..
That her parents never gave her meds and she was perfectly healthy...
Like that's the order that happens in.
Then wanted me to set another appointment when she said she wouldn't help me.
Like wtf)
This is the only person my ford has ever gone under my chair unpromted to avoid like the plague, after having just hung out with the man's nurse the past half hour all happy.
He diagnosed me with fibermialga and told us 'he says it's this because "there's nothing that should be bothering the nerves enough to make one arm almost completely numb in a 20 YO".
Me and my mum looked at each other...
"What?
You do realize what my injuries were in my car wreck right?"
He just stared so we explained my L5 vertebrae was burst fractured upon impact because I curled into a ball.
If I hadn't curled then I wouldn't have legs from the knees down.
I shattered different parts of one foot and then the bone around the other ankle was shattered too.
"Oh that wasn't in ur file"
(BTW I hadn't had a file before my wreck lol, only controlled asthma with my family dr.)
"What about the fact I needed a second surgery to stop the nerve damage caused by my first surgeon putting a screw in sideways(it showed super obvious in over a dozen x-rays they did over 3 months) and not bothering to fix it since he was retiring.
Instead seeing it was damaging my nerves he turned me out onto the street without a follow up surgeon 3 months after my major wreck.
Bruises weren't even healed."
Then he got pissed and stalked out of the room to set up my next appointment, actually thinking we would come back!!! (Loooong drive)
If he had looked at the neck scans he would have seen a busted disk where my neck was hurt in the wreck.(something my 1st surgeon also failed to mention on the merit of "she needs to focus on her back", when my neck needed pt to heal right so I wouldn't be like I am now :/
When my second surgeon checked them he showed me.
So ffing obvious that SOMETHING wasn't right when my whole neck was making room for that area(swollen outwards and feverish all the time) and was so unstable I'm just now available for surgery.
Moral of the story is ur not alone!
(And I talk a lot when I'm sleepy)
It's never made sense why everyone thinks being young excludes u from bad things and tragedy.
I mean there's kid's cancer commercials daily, how can they forget.
Sometimes people cannot help! My husband thought that he could change the fact that I have a service dog and then finally realized that it was not possible because he can't help me control the issues i have.
"Thud" I love that you call it that!
Yes! My husband doesn't have to do all the shopping and go with me everywhere anymore. And, I don't just have to wait until he's willing to do something with or for me.
I get it. I'm disabled but don't need a caregiver or a service animal yet. My exwife has a SCI (spinal cord injury), she's technically a quadriplegic and partially paralyzed on her left side. Service animals, especially dogs, primary goal is to protect and serve their human. Even animals such as cats who aren't known to do that often times provide great emotional support through tough times such as a divorce. My departed pedigree grey Persian made sure I would wake up and do self care. He'd wake me up by meowing and purring in my ear to get me to wake up and go shower. Animals who have bonded to you will take care of you because you take care of them.
Another wonderful video!
Thank you!
Some people have both. A service dog and a caregiver.
Yes x13! You have them all on point. Plus a lot of disabled people would rather be around a dog! My SD licks my face to bring me out of a seizure...I'd not want a human to do that! Dogs are alot easier to deal with than most humans
Ugh, you're right! :) If my friend just started licking me to tell me I'm about to pass out, that would be beyond weird, creepy, and gross....
I know! Id much rather have dog slobber all over me than human slobber! Plus dogs dont judge you:)
***** wow, thank you for your insight. And what are your degrees again? I wonder what you would do when Im seizing on the floor. My highly trained service dog knows exactly what to do. I am most definitely NOT a phony. My service dog went through 2 years of training and continues to train on a daily basis. He behaves better than most humans! His face licking isnt therapy. You need to educate yourself on disabilities and service dogs before you come here and make youself look ridiculous. Oh wait, you already did. You have no idea what my dog does to help me. So until you walk a mile in my shoes take yours and shove them! Have a great day :)
My project for the new year is to start the long process of working towards getting a service dog. Quite frankly, this scares me shitless the more I research it. Your videos are helping me out a lot and making me feel less scared about what I'm going to be facing. Thank you for all your hard work.
Not only all that but... After all the training the dogs receive, they wind up being the best and coolest pups on the planet!
To a human caregiver, it’s a job that they may potentially get burnt out on.
To the working dog, it’s a game with their favorite person.
I'm sorry if this sounds totally ignorant or shallow. But it seriously baffles me how people can't just let other people be. I mean, even if you ARE pretending to need a service dog, or if he's alerting a "thud" or what the hell else, who cares? Why do people need to meddle so much in other peoples lives? if you don't like what you're watching, leave... I don't get it. I love your videos. I started to watch your videos randomly because I got a puppy and I was looking to just teach her some stuff and for some reason, I got suggested one of your videos. They are so informative on a thing that's totally irrelevant to my life and I enjoy them so much. So, thank you.
Thank you so much! :) And I don't believe that's ignorant or shallow at all. Frankly the rest of the world needs to think that way as well, the world would be a better place for it. And wow, thanks! That honestly means so much. I'm honored you're watching period, but it's so cool to know that I'm reaching out to non service dog handlers as well.
ServiceDog Vlog Keep going and please don't pay attention to the idiots. There are a lot. There's a lot of us really appreciate your videos,though, too. (AAAAnd you've managed to leave the boundaries of America. I live in Greece! Double yay!)
Thought of another reason for a SD, that may not be understood, but, here goes.
One of my disabilities is anxiety/panic attacks that can be so severe that even in my home I will run to the corner and cry.
My SD (in training) does NOT run over crowding me and ask me to be coherent enough to explain what's wrong,
she just comes over gently (not crowding) and lovingly licks my face to bring me back.
I can only hope that doesn't happen "out there" (but it probably will) because even if my SD does what she is trained to and does block/guard AND licks my face to bring me back, society has trained me to be embarrassed and ashamed.
*sigh*
And to thank that some people wish that they could have a SD.
These are such great points. Thank you for this, I have a Neurological Disorder and am about to get a Greyhound.
You did so good! You made the first videos of this kind. They are awesome!!! Hope you are doing well. Love...🙏😊
I look forward to all our videos! Love this channel
Thank you so much! :D
AND social anxiety is helped (in my case) by being with my dog. Panic Attacks aren't always helped by my dog, some idiots insist on calling for help, ambo's do get it now...they join the dog in defending me from people!
A human helper can go shopping themselves. While that would 'ease' my stress, running out of something IS a problem. You don't want to be waiting up to 2 weeks for bread, or milk.
Awesome video! Very well said.
I do have a neurological disorder that causes muscle spasms in my "trunk". #7 is so true. People freak out and all I'm doing is twitching. My service dog alerts and I get to sit down or go somewhere private so no one freaks out while I'm pulling fruit snacks off the shelf in Shaws.
Another excellent video! (And glad to see your eye is on the mend :) )
Lots of service animals can do stuff that humans simply *can't* do. Medical alert dogs can often sense changes in someone's body chemistry more quickly than the existing medical equipment can. That's vital time for someone to get to a safer place, take medication, etc.
And I totally second the thing about service dogs being an icebreaker. Not everyone wants to discuss their condition, but if one does and it's awkward to bring up, nothing beats an adorable dog as a conversation-starter :P
-"Dogs don't judge you; they don't get annoyed"
except all those death stares from Bugsie. lol
and all those times I had to drag my dog away from people who are petting him in the store. He's in heaven but I'm like "you're supposed to be working, dude"
-'your dog wont judge you if you want to spend the day watching South Park'
my SD is thoroughly un-impressed when I watch TV all day. lol
I'm writing out the CC (closed captions) right now! I'll comment when they're up!
Awesome video as always. :)
There's also cases (like my mom) where a combination of human caregiver and service dog are super helpful. I can't alert on medical conditions. The dog can't load/unload the wheelchair from the van (and neither can my mom). Sometimes I don't even hear the phone, and he'll alert ME to it if my mom is asleep or something! On the other hand (or is that paw?) he's not much of a cook. :)
I have to PCAs (personal care assistants) myself so I understand the crazy crap (insurance etc) you have to deal with. I am lucky that up until recently I have had luck with insurance covering it. I recently got SSDI and Medicare so am no trying to get coverage again so my PCAs have their jobs back. It's kind of insane but yeah....It is also still hard to ask for help. even if you know the person is getting paid to do just that. At least for me. I am lucky that I live with both of them and trust them and they never judge me.
I have a large collection of disabilities, and a couple of them mean, for me at least, that I actually can't be around people most of the time, it is far too stressful for my Autism and social anxiety, the help I get, is like this weird balancing act of helping one disability, while making another way worse. I still need help so I am seriously considering a service dog.
I was wondering I am on disability and tried to do a go fund me but only got small amount. I have been checking and the lowest I could get was 2000 and 6 months of training with me. It is really hard for us to get a service dog. I love the videos .....
I have bipolar disorder and have had brain surgeries plus I have eosinafilicasofigitous witch is a fancy word for swolin stomach lining and seizures and a crap ton of other medical conditions
I loved your video because it was helpful.
CC are finished! :)
When I was able to take my service dog to school they wanted me to have a little assembly about Lucifer and myself (Lucifer is my dog) I hope it was ok to show some of your videos to go over rules! Love ya!
Falcon Godess I have a cat named Lucifer high five.
love your video's you are very encouraging. i am wanting to train my own service dog but don't know were our how to train a dog or what age they shold be to start training but love your video"s.hope this makes some sincs having bad day
Loved the video as always!
Thank you! :)
Just got my forms to apply for a new service dog to replace my retired one probably left it later then I should but I don't wo any to get rid of her
Also having an aid feels so demeaning
can you go into more detail about dpt and what it is
I know it's been a year and I don't know if you've had your answer yet. Deep pressure therapy is used for those of us who have anxiety problems and go into panic attacks often. We (the distressed human) will either sit up against a wall or lay on the ground depending often on what our history is and if we fear rape, and a person or dog, all I know is dog will lay about half its shoulder/side chest area against your chest and lungs and push. Or if laying, will lay its upper body on your lungs and heart. Either way it slows the breathing and relaxes the heart muscles which in turn slows or even ends panic sometimes even before it becomes a full panic attack. it's an extremely useful technique and works much faster than anxiety meds ;) In rare cases this can even be life saving, as I have crows phobia and have had such bad panic attacks that my heart went into arrhythmia and I fainted from lack of oxygen.
can i get a service dog for spacial awareness and balance
how much was your dog
Good video! :)
do u think someone with autism and severe social anxiety could have a service dog???
rattie home Yes, if both the autism and social anxiety are something that you struggle to cope with and need help with. If you can handle them and they're not extremely disabled then you don't really need one.
Amazing Vid! :)
Im sory if i sownd ignirant but im new to this chanal and i was wundaring why do you "thud"?
The problem with having a seizure disorder while taking a shower is sometimes the *thud* can be a stumble in the shower or a bar of soap falling and a human has a harder time than a dog telling the difference between those and the seizures *thud* where you've been grabbed by a seizure and your body flips over and smacks against the bathtub floor. That's the *thud* she means. Dogs are better at telling between normal shower actions and the fall from a seizure. I used to have seizures so badly in the shower I couldn't take a bath without my husband's constant presence. So i completely get why a dog would be less burden on a person in this case.