#White Swiss Shepherd Dog

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Bolt (2008, Chris Williams and Byron Howard)

28/05/2024

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[assistancedogmischa]

hi, this is Mischa!

about mischa

mischa is a maremma sheepdog x white swiss shepherd. he was born on the 5th of February 2021. he and i are working towards being an assistance / service dog team!

we live in australia and in a state that doesnt have assistance animal specific legislation, so our rights as an AD team are covered by federal law under the Disability Discrimination Act (1992) (the DDA).

mischa is training to be a psychiatric and mobility assistance dog. we have only just started to work on AD tasks and Public Access, and we aren't with an organisation, we work with a private dog trainer who has experience with (psych) assistance dogs.

here is some more information about mischa as well as links on assistance dogs and the DDA.

about me

I'm Crow, my pronouns are it/its & ze/hir. I'm autistic, have C-PTSD, and CFS/ME. I've grown up with dogs, but mischa is my first dog that I've been the primary carer for. my main blog is @mangedog. this blog also doubles as a bit of a health diary for me, since that goes hand in hand with assistance animals and disability!

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[zunatheprincess]

More spring content even though we're a little late - life has been busy 🌷

But I think these are too beautiful not to be shared :)

I hope you guys are well! ❤

[twobigears]

more flying fur appreciation

📷 Happy Kampa Photography

[aspidities]

These three have no idea that they will soon no longer be the bastard children of unwed parents but they had a great fuckin week anyway

[scarlettjemily]

me: it'll be so much safer when i go for a run if i bring my dog, he will protect me.

my dog who is apparently going to protect me:

This boy is 36kg of pure fluff

[ladycybercat]

My Pupper is 10 years old today! She's still such a sweetie!

[guiltyidealist]

Hewie

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Please link this post as credit if you use the top right GIF-- I made it!

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Bolt (2008, Chris Williams and Byron Howard)

27/10/2024

[werbitssft]

i rewatched the episode of season 19 many times "The beast of Sodor", and decided to redraw 2 passages from there, which i remember very well, like the whole series in general.

a reference:

[assistancedogmischa]

we had our second training session with our trainer the other day.

she doesn't think mischa will be able to do PA. which... now, yeah, he can't - he's too nervous and hasn't been trained to anywhere near that level. but i think, with time and training and building up his confidence, we will at least have a shot...

she also said that we need / should get xrays from the vet before we do mobility work. which is true but also... so expensive... and we don't have an osteo specialist vet here, only one that is knowledgeable but not a specialist.

i've also been re-evaluating what i need from mischa, and i think i don't need him to do bracing, only counterbalance. counterbalance is still a mobility task, so we'd still need him to be carefully trained and evaluated by a vet, but maybe we could get away with not doing xrays...?

i dunno, i want to focus on psych tasks first anyway since that's my biggest need.

the trainer also said that she very much doubts if mischa can come with me on my surgery trip, which i'm obviously disappointed about but... not really surprised. maybe i could bring him with me as a pet...

as for actual training, misch has a solid Touch / Target now, so we'll start transferring it to targets other than my hand. we haven't started training Paws Up yet (i... forgot lol). in the training session we just had, we started practicing standing in position for bracing / counterbalance.

anyway, i plan to do donna hill's service dog training institute programs and once we get up to the PA ones, i'll have another session with our trainer and get her opinion on if he can start PA training or not.

the trainer said to start PA at dog parks, then dog friendly public places, and then non-dog friendly public places, but a friend (who has an AD) suggested doing it the opposite, since in non-dog places theres obviously no other dogs or interesting doggy smells to get distracted by. and the few times we've done PA training he's done very well considering his lack of PA/AD training in general...

i think, with time and dedication and training (and a good deal of stubbornness, which he and i both have...!), we'll get there. i'm not in a rush!

(the trainer also asked if i could consider getting another dog for AD training... not a good sign. but i would love to, i just can't at the moment. not for another year at least. i did contact a collie breeder just to get some info and see if they had any experience with ADs. but thats for the future...)

[bookwyrmbran]

chilling in bed the other day and caught Orion mid yawn and stretch

I think it's the best oh no they didn't face I've ever seen from one of my critters!

biiiiiiiig yawn

almost 5 and still The Prettiest (tm)

[zunatheprincess]

This spring I finally found a nice spot with many daffodils for my photography <3

[twobigears]

really appreciate the fur flying off her

📷 Happy Kampa Photography