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ECAD breeds and trains Assistance Dogs for clients with a wide variety of disabilities and needs. Our dogs are taught to retrieve items, open doors, activate light switches, pull wheelchairs, balance, brace, and perform many other highly specialized tasks through the ECADemy© training program.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Fairfield County 411: Updated: Smooch A Pooch
Fairfield County 411: Updated: Smooch A Pooch: Today at Pet Pantry, Valentines Day kisses will be free for the taking! Join ECAD as they bring in two yellow lab puppies for their 'Smooch ...
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Update Shiloh's Puppies
Shiloh's puppies and future service dogs who will help the physically
challenged as part of a special program called Educated Canines
Assisting with Disabilities (ECAD). Green Chimneys students play a
vital role in training these service dogs, giving them an opportunity to
make the transformation from service receivers to service providers.
Photo By: Aurelie Julia Douay
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Update From Green Chimneys, the "Disney" Litter
Check out ECAD's "Disney" litter and one of our trainer/instructors, Aurelie Duay's progress report on the puppy's! It sounds like they are coming alone very well with the help of the Green Chimneys student instructors assisted by Aurelie and Adam!
ECAD's "Disney" Litter AKA Blondies Pups
ECAD's "Disney" Litter AKA Blondies Pups
The puppies are now 5 months old and started their training at Green Chimneys a month ago.
They are assimilating the basic commands and have also started tugging and retrieving.
Every week they are learning new commands, this week it was ''my laps/snuggle''
We also had a chance to work on some distractions with them, meeting animals at the farm, and various household items such as vacuums, broom ... and of course food !
Daisey was not very comfortable on being on the top of the jump on box but her trainer has been teaching her that it ''wasn' t that scary, and it will be okay''.
She worked through her fear and now seems very proud of her accomplishment, trainer indeed!
Mickey has been excelling on the art of laying down or sitting and staying. He has been showing a lot of patience skills.
Tink has been a little shy at the beginning but seems to be enjoying being with her trainer . She gets very excited in the morning to load in the truck.
In one a month, their training have been improving so much.
These puppies are now more patient and able to stay under their box while their trainers are sitting and learning the lectures.
They are already more focused on their trainer and start to forget about the whole world.
Their trainer start to be their world.
Outside the pen, they have been learning how to be calm and gentle with each other ( even if Disney seems to be forgetting time to time )
Thanks for the pictures and the updates Aurelie and Adam!
Service Dog Saves Central Texas Pastor From Drowning
LAMPASAS (KCEN)- A service dog who sprung
into action has been credited with saving his owner from drowning after
the local pastor blacked out.
Pastor Ray McCoy suffers from a rare disease called Von Hippel Lindau syndrome that has caused tumors in his spinal cord.
In addition to chronic severe pain, the
condition also often caused Pastor McCoy to black out unexpectedly when
he leaned a certain way from the tumors pressing on his spinal cord.
One day as he was drawing a hot bath to try to ease the ongoing pain caused by the tumors in his spinal cord he blacked out.
His service dog sprung into action and pulled
him out of the tub by his ankle. The water still running and
Excalibur's chest and front legs were soaked.
"With Excalibur's help, I was able to roll
myself out of the tub," says Pastor McCoy. "Then he fetched my phone for
me and I was able to call my wife and son for help."
Excalibur's feat is even more incredible because he used to be afraid of running water and would try to avoid it.
"We think he must have been abused with
someone using a hose to spray him with water," says McCoy. "My wife and I
and our trainer worked a long time to get him more comfortable around
it. It paid off. I could have drowned in that tub."
Excalibur, a black Labrador retriever, was
trained for Pastor McCoy by Texas Hearing and Service Dogs, a non profit
agency that rescues dogs from animal shelters and trains them to help
Texans living with disabilities free of charge.
This is the second time Excalibur has helped in an emergency when I blacked out," says McCoy.
‘The first time Excalibur help avoid a
potential life threatening disaster was the day after the trainer moved
him into our home," explains McCoy. "I was at the far end of our
backyard, I passed out and fell down the hill on our property. Excalibur
raced back to our house and kept flinging himself on our back door
until my wife Michelle came out. Then he led her back to me."
Excalibur and other Service Dogs helped their
disabled partners with everyday tasks like picking up dropped keys and
cell phones, opening doors and tugging off socks and jackets.
"Excalibur not only helps me do things I
can't physically do," says McCoy. "He gives emotional support to my
wife. She is more at ease leaving me alone while she is at work knowing
that Excalibur is by my side and able to render aid in the event I need
it. Texas Hearing and Service Dogs also trained Excalibur to call 911 by
pushing a button on our alarm system in the event I need help and no
one is around. My wife and I both give Praise to God daily for
Excalibur and THSD for changing our lives.
"It's not every day a Service Dog, even one
like Excalibur, saves his partner's life, but it is every day that he
helps make life worth living."
Monday, February 6, 2012
Register Citizen Article
New article about Lu and the Young people that make ECAD what it is
Way to go Lu and the young people of ECAD!
Way to go Lu and the young people of ECAD!
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