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Would you help gain donations for a Service Dog?
We have received a one-time offer that lasts till
Monday, March, 25th 2013.
To earn $4500.00
We (my trainers and I) found a juvenile male shepherd, who is healthy, laid back, great with kids and adults — really good potential Service Dog candidate. He is priced at $6000.00, but breeder offered me for half that. I need cost of dog, shipping and neutering costs of my current male = $4500.00. By this coming Monday or the price goes back up. We do have a potential puppy in the works, but not sure yet if the mother is even pregnant. This is a special offer. I’m seeing if I can gather the funds. Letting fate by my guide.
Would you donate to help my cause?
Would you spread the word?
Below is a little description about my situation.
Autism is a not a childhood issue, children with autism grow up into adults with autism. Service dogs are a necessity for adults on the autism spectrum who are capable of caring for them. Where children have parents to care for their every need, adults require friends and family to drop everything and run errands with them, this is both embarrassing and annoying for both parties involved. Adults on the spectrum require independence, they deserve it. Service dogs don’t tell you “Wait a min, I’m just looking for one more thing…” meanwhile your having a meltdown this very min and a meltdown waits for nobody. A service dog is important to function in every day life.
Unfortunately there very few organizations who train service dogs for adults with autism.
Due to this fact I have had to hire a private trainer to train my past three service dogs. I have always put money by for my next dog as I gain my new one, that way when its time to retire my current dog the next one is already in training. This time my sewer pipe broke, it ate my SD fund and forced me to open a credit card (wasn’t in debt before) it’s eating up my SSI just to pay the monthly min payment.
My eight year old retired to a beloved pet and I am now without a working dog. I have however found the right bloodlines and the mother was just flown with her breeder to Holland and back to be bred to the amazing father. Will find out of the breeding took around about April 4th!!
$2600.00 will bring my puppy home, shipping and early vet costs.
$8000.00 – $25,000.00 will pay the training and all other addition costs SDs require.
Most companies I have talked to tell me they only donate or sponsor things that help the community as a whole, not individuals. This is an oxymoron when it comes to autism. Autism (especially moderate/med functioning) is a secluding disability. Those on the spectrum are not a part of the community, but removed from it by the public itself due to public stigma brought on by Hollywood stereotypes.
Where do adults on the spectrum go when SD orgs only train autism service dogs for children who already have parents to care for them? Where do adults on the spectrum get their independence?
Let me explain from a basic sense…
Imagine you are bitten by a spider. 
You go to bed and sleep soundly, you wake up the next morning with unusually super human hearing, sight, smell, taste, touch. The thread of your socks rubs against your toes as they twist and bunch around your ankles, you hear a car alarm in the distance but you might as well be standing next to it the sound is so loud to your ears. You’re too hot being tangled in your sheets and the light coming in your open window is so bright it hurts your eyes.
This is a taste of what it is like for a person on the spectrum to wake up in the morning. Varying degrees of over-stimulation of every human sense. This continues on throughout the day.
Now imagine yourself in the grocery store, you only popped in to grab a quart of milk. You head down the laundry detergent aisle to avoid a group of people and you are immediately struck senseless from the odor of all the cleaner fragrances. You loose your barring and become confused and scared. You hear a voice over the loudspeaker, but you can’t make sense of the words, you pull at your collar feeling hot and unable to breathe, you are melting down. Too much over-stimulus. You focus in on your goal of exit, the end of the aisle but you can’t get there alone, your body is frozen in place. The person you are with took the path through the group of people you passed earlier, so you are really alone.
Then a pair of calm brown eyes catch your focus, a soft and strong body presses itself against your leg and a paw presses onto your feet. You are instantly grounded. All of your senses are still in over-drive but you gather enough focus to give the command you’ve used countless times to have your partner lead you from the madness. Without question your service dog happily leads you out of the toxic fragrance and on down to the quiet end of the aisle where you start to come out of the fog. Your partner waits patiently, those intelligent brown eyes never wavering from your own, while you ease back down to earth from the clouds.
The above are examples of a mild day. Most days one is too overwhelmed to leave the house period.
We need a little help getting this young guy home.
Gratefully accepting budget friendly $1 donations! Every donation counts!
Sponsorship is also welcomed.
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