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Four Paws on the Floor. Real rule or fake?

Four Paws on the Floor. Real rule or fake? And how to tell?

Yesterday’s Letter Writer from Florida, like many people, holds the misconception that all service dogs work exclusively from the floor.

This is as far from the truth as my service dog is from the floor.

Small service dogs, especially those trained to sense chemical changes in their handlers, are often trained to do their work from a…

Worried about infectious diseases spread

Worried about infectious diseases spread by dogs?

It’s not service dogs you need to worry about.

This letter to the editor popped up in our Service Dogs Google Alert: http://ow.ly/XIhU30kAXyg

In it, the author worries about service dogs spreading zoonotic infections to unwitting shoppers, questions whether people are vaccinating their service dogs, and expresses concern about ticks and fleas.

The Daily Service Dog: Unaccompanied min

The Daily Service Dog: Unaccompanied minor… dog…s

In a post that went viral, Tumblr’s Lumpatronics shared a somewhat atypical day in the life of a service dog team in an eloquent, humorous, and educational post. You can read the original short post here (we promise it’s worth your time.): http://ow.ly/Px3i30kzmbO

Essentially, Lumpatronics has a dog trained to detect and respond to seizures. When…

The Daily Service Dog: How to answer when questioned about your owner-trained service dog

The Daily Service Dog: How to answer when questioned about your owner-trained service dog

An especially sad article popped up today on our Service Dog Google Alert. Among the daily crop of families and communities across the English-speaking world holding fundraisers to afford a professionally trained service dog was an article about a 62 year old woman forced to live out of her car because the…

We’re trying a new thing here, along with our service dog blogging (#ServiceDlogging?) Read all the way to the end if you’re interested in a freebie, by the way.

To follow our shop, keep an eye on the Shop tag and category. All of the new outfits and bath products* we post about will have a Buy button next to them which will allow you to purchase securely through PayPal. All made-to-order…

Happy Halloween! Our little dogs in costume are ready for trick or treaters and spooky fun, and we hope yours are, too.  We’ll tell you how to make sure they can have fun in costume while you have fun taking their pictures and showing them off.  (We’d love to see what your dog’s are wearing for the holiday!) This year, Fruit Bat, Elsa, and Ada Luna are a dragon, Sister of Dragons, and a cow…

A few words about the diversity of disability

Ada Luna performing a taskWe’re fans of diversity.  In people and in general. Often, people who share membership in a diversity group feel some kinship with other members of the group.  Often. Not always. And often not always in the world of disability.  Being disabled is such a broad label, I’m not sure it should be applied nearly as often as it is to disabled people as a group.  Certainly not…

Just for fun, because even service dogs need a day off… 

Miss Ada Luna goes for a walk (adventures in tiny purse snatching)