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Originally Posted by YorkieTherapy  Guide dogs fall under the Department of Consumer Affairs. They are classified differently than other service dogs. Training of guide dogs is extensive and instructors/trainers are required by law in California to be licensed through the California State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind.
No offense, Minnie Misa is too small to be a guide dog. Bigger breeds are used because some of their duties includes helping with mobility, even disobeying handler when there is danger by physically blocking or maneuvering their handler away like say from a speeding cyclist on a sidewalk.
Question to people in rescue because I really do not know... are there many full time unemployed college student that foster pups? Isn't there out of pocket costs? |
I don't know where the foster rumor came about. It's not true and Cess' own posts on here prove she got these dogs as puppies, so no way they were fosters. But to answer your question, there are not many young people in general who foster, much less unemployed college students. But I don't think Cess was unemployed while in school. She mentioned work a few times.
Yes there are out of pocket costs for fostering. I pay for all food, toys, clothes, grooming, leashes, gas for driving them to the vet, pretty much everything BUT vetting. We don't get paid back for any of it. We do it as volunteers.
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Originally Posted by Cherie6446 I can't believe that we are still talking about this user/loser woman. Her post was Jan 2013. Just mentioning her or Misa brings out the ire in yorkietalk people. Little LILO ate a turkey bone - or so she said. |
The turkey bone thing always made me wonder. Out of all the yorkies I've had fostered, plus mine, Uni is the best trained one. She would NEVER eat out of the trash, off the counter, etc. If Lilo was so well trained, why would she go in the trash? And I assume if it's a bone, it was trash.
Trash cans are easy to get to for dogs. It's in their line of sight and I'm sure hard to pass up. I should know, Toto has raided the trash several times. Last time I was lucky he only ate stale bread on the top layer and got so excited he didn't realize the chicken skin and chicken bones one layer underneath.
Would a puncture in the intestine or stomach cause a dog's heart to stop? I'm asking for real, I don't know. Did she ever say they got an x ray to prove it was a bone or obstruction? Did she ever say why they thought it was a bone?