Thank you for sharing. I think your description of the dog getting your medications was excellent. Too many people think service dogs as only mobility dogs or seeing eye dogs. I understand your not wanting to divulge personal information but you might have benefited someone else on this forum who might not have known that small dogs can provide legitimate benefits--just different from the bigger dogs.
Small dogs can be epilepsy/seizure dogs, hearing dogs, medication dogs, diabetic dogs. Small dogs can pick up keys, pull covers up on beds, turn on and off lights. All these tasks make them "Service" dogs.
And I can go on for hours about "therapy" dogs and tasks theu perform.
Be careful that there is nothing dangerous to your dogs in your purse and that your medications can't spill.
If you do a google or yahoo search on service dogs or therapy dogs you will be connected to a lot of good organizations with trainers who can thoroughly train you and your dogs to assist you and help you get the appropriate identification and licenses. |