The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Here's the link to the Autism Service of Dogs of America site:

http://autismservicedogsofamerica.com/

There are also emotional support dogs, which is what one of my dogs is to me and my son. They are basically just well-trained companion dogs who respond well to melt-downs and other high stress situations. When I take my dog out for walks, he seems to sense my rising tension when I see someone approaching and he moves slightly ahead of me to block the other person from getting too close. If someone is approaching from behind, he falls back a little and stays behind. If they get too close to me, he gets a very defensive look as they walk by. He wouldn't bite them unless they touched me but he does make them look nervous.
For my son, the dog is the only one that can wake him up in the morning and when he is having a melt down, the dog is right there until it is over. He is the only one that can touch my son when he is like that. Like I said, he only has some formal training whereas a service dog has a 1 or 2 years of formal training. They are very pricey.

Oh god here we go again. Current dog thread

Still cut up from the above link on this one Grimfaire, nothing directed at you.

OOPS! I hadn't seen that one!

I think Reika's "close minded closed mouth" comment should be sent to some of the people on that thread!

This one also trains their dogs to "Track" your child specifically, They are spendy through $6,000.00- 14,000.00 depending what you want them trained for. And I want EVERYTHING for my daughter. I'm so over-protective now of my children, since my oldest daughters death.
http://www.4pawsforability.org/autismdogs.htm
Haven't started ANY fund-raising cause I'm sorta overwhelmed by how to even begin. (My organizational skills truly suck) Not sure yet of how to start, put little jars up in stores? website donations? Door-to-door? don't know how to go about it. The only other kid in the state that has one got all their fund-raising thru their church. Since I'm agnostic, that route is closed to me proably as I'm SO unaffilated w/ any religious organizations.
Ideas are welcome as "Creativity" isn't my strong point either. However, I am "Ballsy" enough to go up to complete strangers and ask them to help us.(At least I think I am, gonna find out soon enough I bet) My daughter deserves that much.
LOVED the drummers Lau, went and saw "Stomp" here cause of all the percussion, also love Ladysmith Black Mambazo, but missed them when they came here. "Homeless" w/ Paul Simon is my favorite, ooo wonder if it's on youtube off to check...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Hnfu76QIs[/youtube]
whattya know Love "accapella" music and these guys are the best you may have heard them if you live in the US they did a "Lifesavers" commercial I think it was. (youtube has created a monster haha but true)
I heard this was the first concert that both blacks and whites attended together and do know they recieved multiple bomb threats by those who wanted to keep Aparthide in effect. It ended shortly after this concert BTW. Postpaleo when I read your post above, I LAUGHED!! ! Don't mean it in a mean way, jsut where you said "Here we go again" made me laugh

Don't mind at all and Thank You for the kind offer, We need all the help we can get Have to go see what the VH1 Rock for Autism thing is, started a thread in Autism Disscussion and then saw the time and raced off to pick my daughter up from school. Have to go to work in an hour. It's turned out to be nice, so we won't be busy. Everyone will be outside while they still can be.

Yeah well, reika, ya'l can be thankful my current install of Explored is unstable. I had a further come back and it was lost. Most likely god striking me down. I'm about tired of toning down my rambles on WP. I don't like Disney and I don't believe in Kodak moments.

It was about the discussion about your sig. Lau's comeback question of if they kept their mouths shut, where would they put their feet. The answer is simple, ya tell em to stick them up their ass. Yeah I'm rude, crude and tattooed. I have lived over a third of my adult life, guilty at birth, and the law man has been threatening to put me away, high crimes and treason to the masses. I don't play like the other good little boys and girls, hell I don't play well with others period and I hate it when I get on a spot where I tie my own hands.

Hell the men in the white coats and I have been playing hide and seek for the last month. They haven't found me yet. Tee Hee Hee.

I have always enjoyed the company of ballsy women. See if there is a Schutzhund group near you. Let your daughter train her own dog and you can help. There are co-owners. A guide dog will have had many owner/trainers before you ever spill the 6-14k. A seriously good stock dog will be about 1k, maybe a tad more. The bond would be unbreakable. No one cards a big dog at the door, if they have a special collar on. Baffle em with BS, they're used to it. Makes them feel good. And it makes for bad press when you call CNN if they object.

New signature hope you don't mind that I used your names, is it o.k. that I used "Ass" in it, it's only a "Noun" If you would like your name removed let me know, I think I like it even better now

rieka, what's a shew?

It's a little mouse like creature, they are rather cute I think, but they are wild rodents none the less, so I wonder about disease. And if you "live trap" them and set them free they just come back w/in the hour. They all come "Inside" for the winter. May have spelled it wrong in my post,(never preview, bad of me I know) Just found a site, they AREN'T "rodents" they are in the "Mole" family. No matter what they are, I can't kill them. I can't kill anything, Total pacifist.
http://en.mimi.hu/animals/shrew.html

Oh. Thanks for explaining. Can you plug their points of entry with something? I'd hate to have critters running round the place. I lived in one place that had bats. Luckily, I was able to find a humane exterminator. He merely observed them a couple of evenings, figured out how they were getting into the attic, and then plugged up the holes. They had to find another "condo" to move into, LOL.

I'v done that before and they just burrow in 6 inches away. The lady who lived here before me says she could't get rid of them either. They are really cute through. Gotta go make a living for us, wish it would be busy but oh so doubtful. Bye for now.. I sure seem to have gotten over my "Shyness" for want of a better word huh?

Lol, I don't mind, but watch for the sig Nazi's. They might not like it. Besides tell someone they're closed minded and they'll say you are. No one ever owns up to it. According to that premise there are no closed minded people on the face of the earth. Except the other half. And some of them are here.