Tagged with: disabilities exercise Physical Activity service animals An article was just released this week about a study at Michigan State University about how individuals that walked their dog were 34 percent more likely to reach the federal physical activity benchmarks.
Tagged with: disability dogs pets service animals There are millions of dog lovers all over the world and I am proud to be one of them. For those who are dog owners, we can all agree that they play an important role in our lives – they’re practically or are part of the family. They also provide unconditional love, companionship and always welcome us home. Besides being a loyal companion, man’s best friends help people with disabilities by being service dogs.
Tagged with: ADA service animals New ADA rules may only protect dogs and miniature horses as service animals due to progressively more people buying bogus Internet-based National Service Animal Registry credentials to declare their pets as service animals.
Tagged with: ADA service animals unusual The public long has become accustomed to guide dogs for those with visual impairments, first used in 1929. But when the use of dogs for other types of help — such as alerting people with hearing impairments to sounds, pulling wheelchairs and helping with mobility issues — became common after enactment of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, controversy over access came with it.
Tagged with: assistance capuchin monkeys disability Helping Hands service animals Everybody needs a helping hand from time to time, so instead of a service dog to assist a person with disabilities, how about two helping hands in the form of a Monkey Helper?
