A DogWish Success Story
DogWish PTSD Service Dogs Transform Lives
Laurie & Heide
Four and a half years ago I became disabled. I was housebound for 3 years suffering through, while I went from doctor to doctor, enduring endless tests, where they tried to diagnose my symptoms and deal with my problems. After these diagnoses I thought the days of my independence were over... (my body was no longer able to handle stress of any kind)... I lost hope as the doctors just adding more drugs to my life.
God always seems to work in funny ways. My husband, an avid library fancier, brought me home a book. (please keep in mind that now I have to read things 3 to 4 times to be able to understand things). In this book there was a woman on the west coast that had similar symptoms. She actually had a Service K 9 that assisted her everywhere she went and helped her live a more normal life. I was in shock. I had heard about Service dogs for the blind, hearing impaired, and dogs that helped people in wheel chairs but never a dog that helped the mentally impaired or ones that helped people with multiple problems.
My family started doing research on dogs for the mentally ill. They found an organization, DOGWISH, INC, on the West Coast; Cal , that trained dogs to help autistic children, and assist people like me. They called them Psychological Service Assistance K9s. I was adamant that the dog be a GSD. Through my families research this was one of the only places that used GSD's anymore as Assistance K 9's. Some places, like Paws for a Cause, which is only 10 miles from my home, have waiting lists up to 4 years, and don’t even acknowledge this type of K9. I contacted DOGWISH and spoke with Bob Taylor. He not only understood my problems, he had a dog in training he said he could customize specifically for my needs, and could bring the dog to me, and help me in my home. To me, this was unbelievable. Other programs want you to go there for a month and learn to handle and work with a dog they have generically trained. It is all very impersonal, and impossible for someone like me.
I am so lucky to have so many friends, neighbors and family that love me. They held countless fund raisers, even my son's high school got involved, to raise half the money to get me an Assistance Service Dog. I have now owned Heide now for 15 months. SHE IS A GSD!! She enables me to leave the house on my own. She is trained to keep people out of my personal space, to react if I loose consciousness, to get me through panic/anxiety attacks, she helps balance (with medication) the chemical imbalance in my brain, the agoraphobia, and by exercising her regularly- I get exercised -my body and brain. She reacts to stop my manic behavior by balancing my brainwaves with her brainwaves. Her formal registration reads- Seizure Alert / Psychological / Therapy/ Disability Assistance K9.
To me Heide is my access to the outside world, she is allowed by law to go everywhere I go. I will never be the way I used to, I will never recover, my conditions will only get worse. Heide helps to ease that pain by helping me get through everyday one step at a time. Heide is a remarkable friend. Without her I would still be housebound. There are bad days and she will lay by my side helping me through...
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DogWish P.T.S.D. Support Service Dogs
DogWish Neurological Support Service Dogs Help Combat and Overcome Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD
DOGWISH’S ANSWER TO P.T.S.D.
We have created is a new type of Service Assistance K-9 that can provide mental/emotional balance, stability, and psychological enrichment in the life of their handler. this K-9 can be carefully trained to achieve phenomenal results with handlers affected with a number of debilitating disabilities such as seizures, nervous disorders, P.T.S.D., and several varieties of Autistic type disabilities. We have consistently stopped the progress, and in many cases arrested problems like Panic Attacks, Seizures, and Disconnectedness.
What we have found is that the most common problem caused by these disabilities is disconnection. Disconnection happens in the brain as a reaction to severe stress and trauma. The ability to connect, or re-connect, is the most important ability they can develop, and the main resource for these people in resolving their connection problems happens to be their ownership of a DOGWISH Service Dog.
These dogs have been trained to become sensitive to the biological workings of their handler to the point where they can see, smell, feel, and sense the correct and incorrect mental/neural responsiveness in their handler, often to the point of recognizing and compensating for their handler’s disabilities, and sometimes in doing so save their very lives.
We have witnessed this exchange to 100s of clients, over a period of 10 years, with great success. While a natural dogs senses are much stronger and usable than ours, a dog that has had those senses significantly expanded, and been trained to use those same senses rationally and intelligently to understand and assist its handler, can mean the difference between life and death for that handler.
These K-9s who do not pick up pencils or open doors are more focused on assisting their handlers in being able to live normal lives, and in saving their handlers from the affects of their disabilities. I can take a blind man away from his guide dog and guide him around myself, but I can’t smell his blood, hear his body working, feel his body react to the metabolic rate his brain is feeding it, or be aware of how his nervous system is working. Our dogs are trained to be sensitive to the actual “brain-waves” produced by their handlers. Their jobs and responsibilities are far more serious and affect total mental health of their clients on a much more intense level than the normal K-9.
DogWish Neurological Support Service Dogs Help Combat and Overcome Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD. DogWish produces K9s custom trained to detect, understand, and respond to people with high anxiety issues, severe depression, and extreme emotional fatigue problems.
These mental disabilities are caused by the brains’ computer. We call it the “hypothalamus” which is responsible for using pre-existing stored behaviors to produce present behaviors for you. In doing so the hypothalamus draws from stored material your brain has collected to produce a response to present circumstances. Because of the way the hypothalamus works you feel like you have no control over your mental/emotional state of mind, the emotions you feel, or your present behavior, which is not true. Much of what your brain is producing for you is based on past experience, not the present; your brain is only re-creating what it remembers, and using it for your present situation. Can you stop your brain, re-program it, and create new formulas that will free you from these disabling experiences?
Training Service Dogs that can actually help their handlers to overcome their neurological difficulties has been a major thrust of our work for over 11 years now. Along the way our dogs have done some pretty incredible things.
“Having worked as a leading brain Surgeon, the administrator of Neural Surgery Departments for major hospitals, and the CEO for several Mental Hospitals, meeting Bob Taylor was a surprising and wonderful adventure. Bob knows more about how to work with the brain, in a practical and effective manner, than anyone else I have ever met. Every dog he has ever trained for me was simply perfect. My dogs have been honored as the top Therapy, Assistance, and Search dogs in America, by several leading organizations. Besides that, they are brainwave sensitive, and do the impossible. Bob Taylor is the most dynamic trainer of his time.” Dave Kelso, PHD, Neural Surgeon, Vice President American Red Cross, Regional Director, FEMA. (the late Dr. Dave Kelso)
“I was disabled with severe anxiety and for three years couldn’t leave my home without my family. Even at home I would have severe panic attacks, suffered seizure like behaviors, and often called my husband to come home from work to “save” me. I had no control over my emotions. The day that Bob brought me my dog, my whole life changed. I have a new life and it’s wonderful to be fully functional and free from anxiety, panic attacks, and my severely depressed state of mind. From the first day my Assistance dog Heidi made all the difference for me.” Laurie – Grand Raids Michigan
- DOGWISH Canines come “brain wave sensitive”
This is a a totally new and unique concept in K9 training proven in extreme cases to be 100% effective in dealing with your problems. DOGWISH has created a way to tap into the 95% of the K9 brain that normally lies dormant, to reach way back, and bring out the dynamic intelligence that is sleeping inside your dog. As a result, our dogs are “smart”, with dynamic abilities to detect and respond to what your brain projects.
- DOGWISH Canines are a source of hope, joy, AND love.
With a SUPERCONSCIENCE ability to stop, focus, and respond to what we project and communicate through electromagnetic energies, DOGWISH K9s come trained to be there for you with quiet, patient, loving energy. They calm, sooth, and fill you with their loving, healing, therapeutic spirit. In times of stress and disruption, a DOGWISH K9 is trained to be there for you. No matter where you go, your dog is always on the “alert”, looking for signs of mental/emotional need, and ready to respond, the DOGWISH way.
The methods I have designed for training and handling of all dogs are therapeutic, holistic, and based on comprehensive sciences of biology, psychology, and physics. As the handler uses them, they actually condition you to slow down, focus, and alleviate stress and anxiety. The exercises teach you to neutralize your brains hysterical racing, and to relax and enjoy yourself. The more you use our training the more control you will develop over your emotions & thoughts. For several years, with hundreds of clients affected by anxiety, depression, and seizure like conditions, we have been very successful, and we can help you too.
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