Eddie and I were interviewed by our local news station for a segment they are doing on service dogs for the evening news!!!
I was sooooooooooo nervous!!!!
I hope they are kind in their editing.
The reporter and the producer seemed really nice and said they loved my viewpoint and the issues I brought up.
They were quite enamored with Eddie who btw was a PERFECT angel!!!!!
We did part of the interview in target and I took him right down the meat department isle and dropped him in a down stay right infront of the select meat case and dropped the leash. They were impressed and when the reporter dropped down to zoom on his face with the camera he didn't even twitch...in fact...he went into "no talk" when he turns his face away from someone who is too forward in their scrutiny. I said "good no talk" so they could tell it was trained "avoidance"
He was amazing!!
I just hope they Edit it flatteringly!!!
I will post the link when it is up on the website.
I was representing the "Owner training camp" vs the professional school camp.
We talked about the issues surrounding regulation of training practices.

Oh, I hope they put the clip up on their site!!!!!

Oooo if they put up a clip please link!!!!!

That's way cool and way cool you did the interview. Stuff about owner trained vs school trained needs to be discussed. That's all we need, more regulations that only make it harder for us. Thank you for being willing to do that.

Please link!

Here is the link!! I think That the reporter did a good job.
I wish they had more time to really get more in depth on the issue of regulation vs not..and the issues with the ADI....
News segmant on Service dogs

You did awesome....

I noticed that the ones in favor of making new requirements say the same thing about how "easy it is for a person to slap a vest on their pet and take it in a store"

The reality is, is it worth keeping a disabled person from having a *lifeline* just to keep out a few wannabes? If its pets they don't want in public then you can legally make even a service dog leave if its behavior is bad.

If they were to make a public access test standard....then it should ONLY be for stable behavior in public places....not for tasks....NOBODY else can choose what tasks you individually need not even for the same disorder.

Well spoken!

Excellent!

Thanks for sharing that! I hope it's a step in the right direction. Awareness and education are so important.