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My identify is Addy, I’m new to K9Pro so I wished to introduce myself and allow you to know that I might love that will help you any method I can, my providers are aimed round Help Canine assist and help.
Being an autistic particular person, I’ve all the time discovered nice pleasure and peace working with animals; notably canine. The primary image of me coaching canine was once I was 3 years outdated standing on my grandparents’ caravan steps so I may stand excessive sufficient to coach our household Saint Bernards.
I’m not solely very fortunate however privileged to have been ready the place my hyper fixation has introduced me to a dream job at K9Pro, the place I can now assist different folks with disabilities prepare a greatest pal, their canine, to help them by way of their life’s journey with extra ease, help and or confidence.
Round 2018-19, I made a decision to embark by myself journey of gaining help and friendship from a well-trained canine to help me with my incapacity and share my life with.
I got here throughout many good occasions and plenty of challenges alongside the best way the place I needed to search help and be taught completely different points of canine coaching, behaviour modification and administration, communication, understanding my very own well being and behaviours, and even so simple as how you can decide breed, breeder and coach to help my journey.
I’m going to be sincere; my first canine didn’t transform my help canine and neither did my second canine, they weren’t the fitting breeding for the powerful and invaluable work as an help canine.
They each nonetheless reside nice lives as part of my household doing scent work, disc, trick coaching and plenty of different thrilling issues.
However, my journey led me to Herzhund Labradors and K9Pro, the place I met Steve, Alison, Bec, Henna and the remainder of the superb group.
Right here I discovered my canine, Sirius.
At 11 months outdated Sirius; is now current with me finishing Public Entry duties beneath the DDA, and he has assisted me in lots of locations just like the hospital together with hospital admissions, medical appointments, College, public transport (together with the airport and trains), the Melbourne Zoo, Taronga Zoo and Sydney Aquarium, purchasing centres, eating places, many extra locations and has been on holidays with me and stayed in lodging.
He’s tasked skilled to help each my bodily and psychological well being together with duties comparable to DBT, retrieval duties, opening doorways on the home, crowd management and waking me from nightmares.
Sirius and I are additional designing duties that are individualised to my wants together with seizure alerts, alerting to modifications in coronary heart charge to help me in figuring out stress degree modifications and to keep away from POTS episodes, in addition to guiding duties.
As our journey continues I’ll develop additional duties for Sirius individualised to my circumstances and desires.
Throughout my help canine journey, I longed for help as I hit challenges that I struggled to beat, solutions to canine coaching, behaviour modification, studying and the help canine course of that at occasions I struggled to acquire.
After I couldn’t get these solutions or help, I started to go looking all over the place I may to be taught extra.
I requested questions upon questions of whoever I may, I started deepening my data into psychology by working by way of a Bachelor in Psychology at Deakin College (present), watching coaching periods, studying as many canine coaching books as I may get my palms on, working with folks and their canine to realize dealing with and actual life expertise by way of strolling their canine and serving to them prepare their canine, even volunteering as part of the Revolutionary Help Canine Committee as part of their coaching group.
I’ve now met so many superb groups, and groups starting or in the course of their coaching journey that I’ve supported and labored with. All these experiences and the solutions to the questions I had, and the need to proceed my development to have the ability to assist different help canine groups led me to being mentored by Steve Courtney.
P.s, I nonetheless pinch myself.
Now I’ve accomplished Steve’s Coach’s Masterclass program, and as I converse proceed to develop my expertise by way of mentoring, programs and hopefully finishing a level in Occupational Remedy.
My real-life expertise has seen me full board and prepare packages and coaching periods with help canine prospects, while additionally supporting within the admin and advocacy piece for help canine groups.
I frequently now have the privilege of having fun with updates from groups I’ve and am working with like Sirius’ sister Cinder. Cinder lately assisted her handler to benefit from the easter holidays as part of her group. I’m additionally having fun with serving to one other group, Nico and his handler, of their scent work.
Becoming a member of the group right here at K9Pro I’m excited to have the ability to help our present and future shoppers, each canine and human, alongside their help canine or remedy canine journey.
Whether or not this be helping to select a prospect canine, by way of the coaching journey, process improvement and coaching, finishing Public Entry Assessments, understanding the legislations and authorized necessities of an help canine or remedy canine group, help canine group advocacy and entry, required documentation and even office or public place schooling of help and remedy canine groups.
Check out this web page on our web site to see a few of the providers we provide, if nothing fits you precisely, lets speak as we run many customized packages.
Addy de Jong-Davis
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