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As the title states does anyone else wake up in strange places? I have stopped taking my sleep med because I am out of them right now and I have noticed that i am waking up in strange places in the house. This morning I woke up in my recliner. Yesterday I woke up in the bathroom on the floor...

I kind of broached this topic on my service dog roller coaster thread and I have been thinking about this for a few days now. While I was looking for my service dog it was very hard to find a place that trains psychiatric service dogs. I also know that awareness in this country and this state I...

I have been thinking about this for awhile now and I am going to start a new post about this topic but I was wondering how great of a need is there for psychiatric service dogs? In my search I didn't find much if anything about training them by professionals. I was thinking maybe I would start...

Several men are in the locker room of a golf club. A cellular phone on a bench rings and a man engages the hands-free speaker function and begins to talk. Everyone else in the room stops to listen. MAN: "Hello" WOMAN: "Hi Honey, it's me. Are you at the club?" MAN: "Yes." WOMAN: "I'm at...

You know my wife and I were watching bill cosby today and it made me think. Of all the things my kids have done I could be a stand up comedian telling their tales. And the funny part is they are still very young. Ones from my son are like the shoe box story, the fly fishing story, the juice box...

I have been struggling with this idea for years now. Before the PTSD but now it seems to be more important to me. I didn't know where to put this topic so I figured chit chat would be appropriate. Have any of you written short stories about almost like an alternative universe? A place where you...

Several trips to the dog park later Abby is doing a wonderful Job. She was with me at Farm and fleet on Sunday and I flipped out. There was a whole shelf that got toppled by a forklift while they were trying to put more road salt into a center display and the forklift toppled a shelf. causing...

Yesterday Abby and I were out for a drive. I just needed some time to think. While wandering around this little town of ours which I haven't really explored too much we came across a bunch of cars parked near a fence. Since I didn't have anywhere else to be I stopped and tried to figure out why...

Did I mention that my wife's brother and his wife will not allow me and my service dog into their home? Apparently since their 2 dogs are nasty towards other dogs they will not allow my dog to come to their house. So for christmas I was not allowed to go to their home. It wasn't me they didn't...

Well later today I found an old trick that worked. When I was a kid my dog skippy would do this. I took an old RC car and attached a squeak toy to the back bumper of it and had the dog chase it around the back yard. Abby went nuts for this Idea. She ran for as long as the batteries held out...

Well we kind of figured out where the problem is. I need to walk Abby alot more than I have been. She seems to settle down after a good walking and is more relaxed. problem is she needs to be walked for almost an hour or more before she gets her energy level to where it needs to be. Plus I...

Well today did not go at all like it should have. Abby wouldn't listen for anything. She pulled on the leash barked and tried to jump on another dog and whined the whole time my son was in his Karate class. I probably shouldn't be writing this right now as I am still very angry. But today Abby...

LDT vest? I don't know what that is. I ordered it when we sent her for training. From workingdog.com they offered to sew the patch on for me. I couldn't sew if my life depended on it. But I still would try lol.

MERRY CHRISTMAS ABBY!!!! She got her vest in the mail today and she was so excited we couldn't get her to sit still. The first is my son with Abby trying to hold her still for just a second. The second is a close up of her patch which when she first saw it she licked it. I am one proud Papa...

THE FOUR STAGES OF LIFE: 1) You believe in Santa Claus. 2) You don't believe in Santa Claus. 3) You are Santa Claus.. 4) You look like Santa Claus.

SUCCESS: At age 4 success is . . . . Not piddling in your pants. At age 12 success is . . . Having friends. At age 17 success is . . Having a driver's license. At age 35 success is . . . ..having money. At age 50 success is . . . Having money.. At age 70 success is . .. . Having a drivers...

My brother one year gave me a twenty dollar bill frozen inside a metal bowl the was boxed and wrapped and then ductaped with I think 5 layers of tape then wrapped again. It was a nightmare trying to get into the present and then a nightmare to wait for 2 days for this giant bowl to thaw enough...

She wasn't trained to do that. She was trained to do it during a flashback where her cue is when I put my hands over my ears she is supposed to basically tackle me and lick me until I focus on her. She was also trained to paw my leg when I feel stressed as an excuse to get me out of the...

Shadowchaser is right. In 2011 the rules are changing. I am unclear about whether or not the existing service cats will be grandfathered in though. I mean I have even seen in photos a service pony. Still not sure what the pony does but I have seen it. And i think people have kind of came to...

Well today was my first full day working with Abby. We started out with her waking me up by licking me silly. She even pulled the blanket off of me a little. So off to potty we went and she did her thing while I got coffee started. She came in and ate while I had coffee and the girls had...

Delta society is actually how i found my trainer. And yes I agree the person running PSD society is judgmental and very harsh at times. But in her defense she is about the only good site with more than a few paragraphs abut psychiatric service dogs. Most just mention there is such a thing.

Snuggle, I read a guide somewhere that said in the first year you are going to spend close to 4,000 dollars on the service dog and 2,000 in the years that follow. they estimated that to be the low end number. if you average that out for the first year it's about 330 bucks a month. Now here is...

Well it's 1 AM and we are home but here is a picture of me and my service dog. I will fill you all in more tomorrow when I am more awake. It was a long 9 hours in the car today I am tired.

She was being annoyed because that was the 18th picture in a row with her. I have a whole album of pics of this dog from the trainer. I just picked the best ones. Jill, the trainer, told me that if I don't pick her up soon she's gunna keep her because she is so dang smart. She even opened the...

Well gang, The moment is almost upon us. Abby will be coming home soon. The trainer says she has everything she needs and all I have to do is continue training. Basically work her like crazy and she will do fine. Which is cool because I have holiday shopping to do soon. And since it's that time...