Blog 6- Scholarly Second Secondary Source

MLA Citation:
Rintala, Diana, Rebeca Matamoros, and Laura Seitz. "Effects of Assistance Dogs on Persons with Mobility or Hearing Impairments: A Pilot Study." University of Kentucky Libraries. Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development, 2008. Web. 20 Oct. 2015.

Summary:
The whole purpose of this piece is to give everyone the examples of how the service dogs that's getting trained today help everyone out, but in particular, people with hearing and movement disabilities. This journal over service dogs will help me with my piece because it shows that service dogs aren't just used for one thing or towards one disability; instead, they're can be used for a variety of fields and they're trained properly to do so for the field that they are put into by the service dog trainers. 

Blog 5: Scholarly Secondary Source

MLA Format Sited Source:

 Yount, Rick, Meg Olmert, and Mary Lee. "Service Dog Training Program for Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress in Service Members." http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.uky.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=6&sid=94d86ac1-0936-4bf6-868c-b7f0f8b7e5bd@sessionmgr4004&hid=4110&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=79808391&db=a9h. U.S. Army Medical Department Journal, 1 June 2012. Web. 18 Oct. 2015. <http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.uky.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=6&sid=94d86ac1-0936-4bf6-868c-b7f0f8b7e5bd@sessionmgr4004&hid=4110&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=79808391&db=a9h>. 

I chose this secondary source because it discusses where the use of service dogs first came into action and how it's still an overlooked job in our entire communities. This article was a bit more focused on PTSD and how the service dogs help members of our military or retired military members with PTSD. I chose this article in particular because it covers two major problems that we still haven't discussed. 

This piece grabbed my attention from the start when I read over it because I never truly understood how much PTSD and service dogs were looked over and forgotten about. Knowing someone who had PTSD helps me see the true problem now that I have read upon it and been informed. Thats why I want to use this piece as a secondary source. It brings up just how overlooked service dogs are and how well trained and varied they are. This is my secondary source because it is what backs up my Wildcat Service Dogs and why they do what they do.

WSD Photo Essay

Steven Murphy

Mr. Jennifer Hudgens

WRD-110

October 13, 2015

WSD Financials

WSD, also known as Wildcat Service Dogs, is the community that I chose to do. I have chose this community because they’re a student run organization, only available to join here on University of Kentucky’s campus. This is also a well known organization on campus because they are one of only two organizations that train service dogs for helping the impaired. By this, I mean they are always seen around campus and they’re identified by the blue vest on their dogs, not the red vest. The red vest is for 4 paws organization, which they do their own dog training as well, but the dogs that they get aren’t new and young like WSD’s dogs are. 

          WSD gets their dogs when they’re still little puppies, meaning 8 weeks old, and they start the training from there, while 4 paws gets their dogs after the dogs have already gone through some training with prisoners on good behavior. Another difference between WSD and 4 paws is one is student run and the other is a multi-college run organization. The main difference I want you to know about is their financial differences. With 4 Paws for Ability being a multi-college run organization, it becomes much  easier for the organizations to gain financials and get their name out in the open, but on the other hand, we have WSD, a single college organization, which raises it’s funds all by itself in order to pay for their dogs, crates, and all the other necessities that a dog will need. In the picture provided below, I give you one of the many puppies that WSD has purchased for this year’s trainer’s. With this picture you can tell by one of the trainer’s faces, Izzy , that they cherish their dogs from being brand new in the program, all the way until they have to take them to ADAI for their further training. WSD sends their dogs off to ADAI, after a year of training the dog themselves, and then ADAI takes over from that point and test the dogs to see what skills they can do and which they cannot, which is the deciding factor for the dogs on where they get placed and go to after training.  

The founder of Wildcat Service Dogs is Katie Skarvan. She wasn’t originally an attendee of our university. Instead, she was a transfer from Texas A&M, who was originally from Louisville where she was volunteering at Paws for a Purpose from her seventh grade year on. When she decided she wanted to start a dog training program here on campus, then she talked to Paws for a Purpose about getting a dog. In order to get the organization started, she first had to run it across the administration of the university. This would usually strike some fear into people because they’re having to go in front of the administration of their entire university. This didn’t affect Katie Skarvan thought, because stinging today is the Wildcat Service Dogs.

One thing that all trainers tend to find hard about the program would be something every dog lover would find hard about raising a dog. The fact that it’s much harder to let go than it is to get attached. Skarvan started by training each dog through a two year plan, but eventually lowered the dog’s training down to a one year training process with their trainers, after getting help from another dog training program in Ohio. This company is known as ADAI. ADAI is an organization in Ohio that prospers in Service Dog Training programs. It’s also a program that has been available for over 25 years now and has assisted in the life of over 250 people and their communities. ADAI is the program where WSD sends their dogs to after their year of training here with the trainers are done, which then sends the dogs through their process and places them where they see fit. For example; they can be placed in the Puppy Prison Program, Therapy Dog Program, Service Dog Program, Facility Therapy Dog Program, School Therapy Dog Program, or a Special Needs therapy Dog Program. Each one of these programs require for the dog in training to know certain skills and be able to perform certain task that a regular dog wouldn’t know how to do without being taught.

WORKS CITED:

Blackford, Linda. "Students Make University of Kentucky a Laboratory for Training Service Dogs." Kentucky.com Lexington Herald Leader. Lexington Herald Leader, 31 Dec. 2012. Web. 11 Oct. 2015.

"University of Kentucky Students Training Service Dogs." Life With Dogs. ADMIN, 2013. Web. 11 Oct. 2015.

Blog 4: Primary Artifact 2

For my second primary artifact, I would chose a picture. The picture I have chosen is actually off of their Facebook page because I haven't met with them to get some pictures, video film, and do a survey. I have chosen this picture because it is a picture of a dog that they have trained. The picture shows a dog that they have spent a year training before sending them off to be trained the rest of the way by ADAI. They go there for further and more advanced training before they decide where they go off/ into for their servicing.
The reasoning behind this picture is because this is what they do in this organization. They go around and are offered dogs to train and they go through with it and train these dogs to be obedient and learn commands that they will be given by their servicee(the person that they are assigned too). These commands can either be given as a verbal or a gesture command. The command being given in the picture below is lay/ or relax. It can be said many different ways, but WSD does it in was different than others usually do. WSD is the organization that I chose and I've chosen this picture as an artifact to use for my organization and report because this picture here describes everything that it is they do.

Blog 3: Primary Artifact

I have chosen to do my topic over WSD, an on campus organization, known as Wildcat Service Dogs. I have chosen to do them because I am interested in how they are a student based ran organization. This has peaked my interest because it is then much harder and a lot more work on the students who are involved in this organization to keep it running. They do everything on their own, including the fundraisers and money raising events. They pay for all of the supplies for the dogs out of their raised money that they have worked shard for.

My primary source for this topic is going to be statistics and facts about WSD. I listed a couple of the facts above, like; raising their own financials, buying all of the supplies for their dogs out of their money raised or even out of their own pockets, and statistic to show just how great WSD is the fact that it's one of the few student run organization groups out of the 450 organizations that exist on campus. This is the fact that I choose this out of all the other organizations and because they're a student run and do everything on their own in order to keep the organization running. That is my primary artifact for my topic