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The
majority of the Canines and Felines that pass through our Organization are usually
in a state of shock, malnutrition, dirty, traumatized, diseased, and/or
physically abused. Even with emergency and long term medical care, not
all of them survive. At Renegades Save Our Service Animals Foundation we have witnessed many such
horrors. With tears in our eyes, we have been left with no other
alternative but to make the final decision of putting a companion animal to
sleep, while others don't even make it to the Vet. Fortunately, there
are those that endure, and for them Renegades Save Our Service Animals
Foundation has and will continue to
push the known and acceptable limits of Service and Therapy Animals in order
to ensure and guarantee that these companion animals are NEVER, EVER abandoned,
homeless, and/or abused again. |
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The
Socialization
phase, for these homeless and abandoned companion animals, is extremely
important to their success as Service and Therapy Animals and as adopted
Mascots. They are taken to as many community and out-of-neighborhood locations as possible to
allow them to become familiarize with different sights, sounds, smells, surfaces to walk on,
people, children, etc. This further accustoms them to varying daily routines
such as riding in cars, trucks, vans, using the subway, using escalators,
elevators, traveling in airplanes. even boats and ships. It also enhances their ability for waiting
patiently and quietly under tables and desks, a task that is not at all
exciting, but very important. Some state statutes grant Service
Animals in training the same public access rights guaranteed a trained
Service Animal through the American with Disabilities Act. As long as
the animal is identified by the individual as being a Service Animal and/or
a Service Animal in Training with a Trainer, it can go to any public place including
stores, malls, restaurants, grocery stores, theatres, beaches, etc.
Educating the public regarding Service Animals and people with Disabilities
is an important role that Renegades Save Our Service Animals Foundation has during its daily community
outings with their Service Animals and/or Puppies and/or Kittens in
Training. |
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For
those homeless and abandoned companion animals that are unable to properly
adjust, Renegades Save Our Service Animals Foundation makes it a priority to locate foster and permanent
homes that will meet their specialized needs. For those companion
animals that simply are not interested in becoming a Service, Assistance, or Therapy
Animal, Renegades Save Our Service Animals Foundation takes the initiative of finding stabilized family
environments and individuals that will ensure to give all the much
needed love and attention, aside from their daily needs, that these wondrous
living creatures deserve. |
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One
objective of Renegades Save Our Service Animals Foundation is to prepare the abandoned and homeless companion
animal for successfully achieving and mastering different handicapped
disciplines, and partnering well with the Disabled Individual. Mascots
(normal household pets) will benefit from this type of training, as it will
enable them to be a more sociable and well mannered Canine Citizens. |
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The Renegades Save Our Service Animals Foundation canines undergo the following training phases: Puppy Training;
Grooming; Basic Language & Obedience; Resocialization & Rehabilitation (high
priority); Advanced Language & Obedience; Seeing-Eye Specific Tasks;
Wheelchair Specific Tasks; Seizure-Alert Specific Tasks; Hearing Assistance
Specific Tasks; Emotionally Challenged Specific Tasks; Developmentally Impaired
Specific Tasks; Crutches & Canes Specific Tasks; and Training with other
Assistive Devices. These incredible dogs even undertake classes in
Canine-Human Relations in order to better handle various situations with their
future human partners, and in Canine-Human Public Relations as they are, while
working, together better educating the public. In addition, Renegades Save
Our Service Animals Foundation
promotes the ability for the canines to analyze and find appropriate solutions
to both simple and complex circumstances encountered in their daily work. |
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Basic and Advanced Handicapped Specific Tasks include, but is not limited to, picking up
dropped objects and placing it in hand; retrieve items such as keys and
money; retrieval of working harness and leash; search and retrieve lost
items; knowledge of when to refuse an instruction and/or command; knowing
when and when not to cross the streets; walking with the flow of traffic on
the walkway, street, roadside in neighborhoods where there is no sidewalk,
etc; avoiding overhead obstacles and obstructions on level surfaces;
assisting an individual with ascending and descending stairs; following a
person with sight, such as family members and assistants; moving through
moderate and heavy crowds; maneuvering around furniture, ice, poles, mud,
puddles, and other surface obstacles; lead the impaired individual, but not
pull; locating the door and opening it; assisting a person with support in
sitting and standing modes; using escalators and elevators; turning the
lights on and off in a room; letting their human partner know when the phone
is ringing, if someone is knocking at the door, or the baby is crying; and
many other specialized tasks. |
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HEARING DOG:
Companion animals that are
specially
trained to respond to a huge variety of sounds in order
to
better assist and alert their individual partner that is hard of hearing or
deaf. Some such sounds include, but is not limited to:
Smoke and Fire Alarms
Clock Alarms
Telephone
Baby Crying
Sirens
Another Person
Timers Buzzing
Knocks at Door
Unusual Sounds
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SEIZURE-ALERT AND RESPONSE:
Companion animals
that have the ability to warn a person of an impending seizure moments or hours
before the person has clinical signs of a seizure. When trained to have safe,
reliable behavior in public, these companion animals can be Service Animals for
people with Disabilities.
The companion
animal recognizes that a seizure is going to occur and then physically reacts to
that perception. Several hypothesis have been proposed as to what a
Service Animal recognizes when a seizure is about to take place. Some
believe that the companion animal perceives slight changes in a person's body
language or behavior before a seizure and that this is the trigger. Others
believe that these animals detect very subtle changes in a person's body odor
prior to a seizure. This is an ability that the Service Animal exhibits
immediately or develops over time while in contact with a person who has
seizures.
The ability in companion animals to detect seizures seems to be fairly common, as numerous
individuals with seizures report seizure alerting behavior in their pets.
It appears that a companion animal's perception of oncoming seizures is not a
behavior that can be "trained"; rather, it can only be identified and
encouraged.
Service Animals display a wide range of alerting behaviors. Some have been
observed to lick their owner's hands; bark at the owner's or person's familiar
to the owner; or act restless and pace prior to the person's seizure. The
amount of time from when the companion animal alerts to the actual onset of the
seizure varies from animal to animal. Some Service Animals alert only for
their owners; while others, can develop the ability to alert for more than one
person. Identifying consistent alerting behavior in a companion animal
that alerts long before a seizure requires an astute and careful observer due
to the lapse of time between the alert and the seizure.
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SEEING-EYE ASSISTANTS: Companion
animals that lead a person who has a visual impairment around obstacles and
to various destinations.
MOBILITY and RETRIEVAL
ASSIST:
Companion animals
that have the ability to help a person balance for transfer; ambulation; pulling
wheelchair; and helping individuals from sitting or fallen position.
Companion animals that retrieve items that are dropped or otherwise out of
reach, and by carrying items that are dropped or otherwise out of reach, and by
carrying items by mouth. They also open and close doors; undress and dress the
individuals; carry items in backpack; act as a physical buffer to jostling by
others; put clothes in washer and dryer; bark to alert for help.
PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE ANIMAL:
Companion animals
individually trained to perform tasks for a person living with a Mental Health
Disability. These tasks may include, but are not limited to the following:
Major Depression
Assist in waking the person at the same time each morning; retrieve medications;
assist with household chores; assist the owner in leaving the house and into
public and social settings; hug or stay with the individual during acute
episodes.
Bipolar Disorder
Alerts to incipient mania; aggressive driving; or other uncharacteristic
behaviors.
Schizophrenia
Assist in differentiating real from unreal sights, sounds, and other
hallucinatory phenomena; provide a safe and stable presence for the owner that
is disoriented; take the individual home or to an otherwise safer location.
Disassociate Identity Disorder
Alert to, or interrupt disassociate episodes; provide a safe and stable presence
while the owner recovers from a disassociate episode.
Panic Disorder / Anxiety Disorder
Alert to incipient attacks; provide a safe and stable presence for the
individual during an attack; warm the owner's chilled body during an attack.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Assist with hyper-vigilance and threat assessment; provide a tactile focus for
the owner who is triggered; bring the individual to a safer location; assist the
person with staying in-the-present.
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