My title is Addy, I’m new to K9Pro so I wished to introduce myself and allow you to know that I might love that can assist you any means I can, my providers are aimed round Help Canine assist and assist.

Being an autistic individual, I’ve all the time discovered nice pleasure and peace working with animals; significantly canine. The primary image of me coaching canine was once I was 3 years previous standing on my grandparents’ caravan steps so I might stand excessive sufficient to coach our household Saint Bernards.

I’m not solely very fortunate however privileged to have been able the place my hyper fixation has introduced me to a dream job at K9Pro, the place I can now assist different individuals with disabilities practice a finest good friend, their canine, to help them by means of their life’s journey with extra ease, assist and or confidence.

Round 2018-19, I made a decision to embark by myself journey of gaining assist and friendship from a well-trained canine to help me with my incapacity and share my life with.

I got here throughout many good occasions and plenty of challenges alongside the way in which the place I needed to search assist and study completely different elements of canine coaching, behaviour modification and administration, communication, understanding my very own well being and behaviours, and even so simple as how one can decide breed, breeder and coach to help my journey.

I’m going to be sincere; my first canine didn’t change into my help canine and neither did my second canine, they weren’t the correct breeding for the robust and priceless work as an help canine.

They each nonetheless stay nice lives as part of my household doing scent work, disc, trick coaching and plenty of different thrilling issues.

However, my journey led me to Herzhund Labradors and K9Pro, the place I met Steve, Alison, Bec, Henna and the remainder of the wonderful group.

Right here I discovered my canine, Sirius.

At 11 months previous Sirius; is now current with me finishing Public Entry duties underneath the DDA, and he has assisted me in lots of locations just like the hospital together with hospital admissions, medical appointments, College, public transport (together with the airport and trains), the Melbourne Zoo, Taronga Zoo and Sydney Aquarium, purchasing centres, eating places, many extra locations and has been on holidays with me and stayed in lodging.

He’s tasked educated to assist each my bodily and psychological well being together with duties similar to DBT, retrieval duties, opening doorways on the home, crowd management and waking me from nightmares.

Sirius and I are additional designing duties that are individualised to my wants together with seizure alerts, alerting to modifications in coronary heart price to help me in figuring out stress degree modifications and to keep away from POTS episodes, in addition to guiding duties.

As our journey continues I’ll develop additional duties for Sirius individualised to my situations and wishes.

Throughout my help canine journey, I longed for assist as I hit challenges that I struggled to beat, solutions to canine coaching, behaviour modification, studying and the help canine course of that at occasions I struggled to acquire.

After I couldn’t get these solutions or assist, I started to go looking in every single place I might to study extra.

I requested questions upon questions of whoever I might, I started deepening my data into psychology by working by means of a Bachelor in Psychology at Deakin College (present), watching coaching periods, studying as many canine coaching books as I might get my palms on, working with individuals and their canine to achieve dealing with and actual life expertise by means of strolling their canine and serving to them practice their canine, even volunteering as part of the Revolutionary Help Canine Committee as part of their coaching group.

I’ve now met so many wonderful groups, and groups starting or in the course of their coaching journey that I’ve supported and labored with. All these experiences and the solutions to the questions I had, and the will to proceed my progress to have the ability to assist different help canine groups led me to being mentored by Steve Courtney.

 P.s, I nonetheless pinch myself.

Now I’ve accomplished Steve’s Coach’s Masterclass program, and as I communicate proceed to develop my abilities by means of mentoring, programs and hopefully finishing a level in Occupational Remedy.

My real-life expertise has seen me full board and practice applications and coaching periods with help canine prospects, while additionally supporting within the admin and advocacy piece for help canine groups.

I frequently now have the privilege of having fun with updates from groups I’ve and am working with like Sirius’ sister Cinder. Cinder lately assisted her handler to benefit from the easter holidays as part of her group. I’m additionally having fun with serving to one other group, Nico and his handler, of their scent work.

Becoming a member of the group right here at K9Pro I’m excited to have the ability to help our present and future purchasers, each canine and human, alongside their help canine or remedy canine journey.

Whether or not this be aiding to select a prospect canine, by means of the coaching journey, process improvement and coaching, finishing Public Entry Assessments, understanding the legislations and authorized necessities of an help canine or remedy canine group, help canine group advocacy and entry, required documentation and even office or public place training of help and remedy canine groups.

Check out this web page on our web site to see a number of the providers we provide, if nothing fits you precisely, lets discuss as we run many customized applications.

Addy de Jong-Davis

addy@k9pro.com.au