Disabled Artist with a Service Dog - Opening up About Challenges I face due to disability
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- čas přidán 20. 05. 2024
- A super raw video opening up about some of the challenges I face as a disabled creator, plein air and natural science focused artist due to my disability and the service dog/assistance dog who helps me.
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Ember is so wonderful. I can see and we talked about how annoying it is, that you have nothing close to you to get the papers you need for travelling etc. Also congrats on going to the residency again :) Your painting locations looked great and Ember was so cute company!
Yes! To be fair, I am glad that I live in a jurisdiction with very permissive /open ended regulations for assistance dogs. Organization restricted training requirements, and even mandatory testing create huge barriers to access for those who need it most.
I just wish the Canadian government would figure out their nonsense and make regulations that line up with all (or any!) Of the provincial laws!
What is most ridiculous is because US service dog laws are the wild west ( but consistent across the country), Canadian service dog handlers advise each other to skip the hassle by adding unnecessary layovers at American airports to trips beginning and ending in Canada.
Thanks for sharing, I love your work, and that you can achieve it with furry help is inspiring
Ember is very cute! What breed (or mix) is she? She looks like a husky or border collie mix of some kind?
Great guess! Ember is in fact a border collie x sled dog mix :) Her mom is a working line border collie, her dad is a Canadian Eskimo Dog x Malamute heavy sled dog.
Ember's temperament is very border collie but with a lot more calm and chill. Think Lassie in a snowsuit.
I'm sorry to hear about all this annoying bureaucracy involved with your travels.
I would love to hear more about this topic! I had no idea you trained Ember yourself, and I'm intrigued by her ability to alert you about migraines! We have a lot of the same disabilities, as you know, but a service dog that could alert me to an oncoming migraine would change my life!
Yes! Unfortunately, I can't take full credit for Ember's medical alerts. She started volunteering natural alerts to oncoming autoimmune attacks (my migraines are part of a broader symptom cloud) when she was 7 months old. After a couple months of monitoring to confirm she was consistent (because yeah, her other tasks are nice but the heads up before an aura is lifechanging) I dove much more seriously into training her in general, but I didnt have to figure out scent training. The training for her alert tasks was just redirecting her natural response (insane barking and tearing at my clothing was a ...less than ideal behaviour for alerting me with). Now she nose-boops my thigh and then does little spins to alert, which is much nicer.
I know Ember's alerts are at least largely scent based, as she does big over the top sniff checks. Presumably a dog who didn't volunteer a natural alert could be trained using scent training to perform the same task, but I got to skip the hardest part of that training.
@@LeeAngold she's a clever girl, for sure❣️
Did you ever look up Tim Kauffman on facebook? He has some similar medical issues. He is an inspiring author, and has a recent book called 'Escape'. Plus he has an Eng background :-)
Ooh, looking up now. Thanks for the tip :)
@@LeeAngold His book is 7 bucks on amazon (free with kindle unlimited).
I am shocked. I did not know Canadians was that awfull people.
I realy do not like dogs, but: I have the uthermost respect for service dogs and simply do not understand, who a first world country don't have simple rules and ... sure provide documentation that airlines etc. want.
I also do not understand, why any person from airports, airlines etc. would have any trouble with service dogs. - Other aninamals sure, but service dogs...?
I hopw Canadians will follow the yellow brick road and find their hearts.
Most airport/airline staff etc are very nice people.
It's just the rules are very confusing and contradictory. The laws governing access in stores and public spaces are made by a completely different group than regulations for travel.
The people making rules for travel only spoke to a few "big name" service dog organizations when updating rules. These organizations suggested using their org IDs as proof of training/medical need. People whose service dogs don't come from those organizations don't have a good way of "proving" their training/needs according to travel rules.
The big orgs only train for certain clients/disabilities and have long waiting lists so there's a lot of service dog handlers who got excluded by this rule change.
I will say also I've never been hassled at the airport or on a plane/train. My dog shows off her best behaviour and wows all the staff.
The problem is with booking ahead - I have to have my service dog added to my reservations, and airlines ask for documents that don't exist or aren't available to me, or else don't have the proper systems to list a service dog on my ticket and ensure an appropriate seating assignment