Where to get a Psychiatric Service Dog?
Living with mental health challenges presents its own unique set of obstacles, but for many individuals, a psychiatric service dog can...
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Jennifer Cattet
Mar 202 min read
Can having a Seizure Alert Dog reduce seizures? A new study suggests that it's possible
A groundbreaking study recently unveiled the remarkable impact of seizure alert dogs on individuals with epilepsy.
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Jennifer Cattet
Feb 282 min read
What do seizure alert dogs do?
Seizure alert dogs play a crucial role in the lives of individuals living with epilepsy. Trained to detect the scent associated with...
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Jennifer Cattet
Feb 213 min read
There is a Scent for Seizures: How Trained Seizure Alert Dogs Could Revolutionize Epilepsy Management
Since ancient times, the human sense of smell has been recognized as a powerful tool for detecting changes in health. From Hippocrates'...
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Jennifer Cattet
Jun 15, 20218 min read
How to select a dog to train as your service dog?
Since we help owners train their own dogs as service dogs, the question of how to pick the right dog comes up daily at our training...
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Jennifer Cattet
Apr 30, 20218 min read
New Book: “Selecting and Training your service dog: How to succeed in public access work
We read stories all the time in the media about how service dogs change lives. Over the years, I’ve experienced first-hand how a dog can...
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Jennifer Cattet
Mar 2, 20215 min read
Can your ESA become your Service Dog and fly with you?
For the past decade, owners, suffering from a disability, were able to bring their emotional support animal (ESA) on the plane with them,...
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Jennifer Cattet
Feb 11, 20216 min read
How to Get a Service Dog
Living with a disability is difficult, stressful, and sometimes scary if your condition triggers sudden changes in your physiology. Dogs...
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Jennifer Cattet
Feb 3, 20217 min read
Emotional Support Dog, Therapy Dog, Facility Dog, or Psychiatric Service Dog. What’s the difference?
It’s almost impossible to find any other creature as loving and comforting as a dog. Their ability to empathize and their natural desire...
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Jennifer Cattet
Dec 5, 20205 min read
Caleb and the “collaborator” Darcy
Grief and trauma can impact all area of a young person’s life. School is harder, relationships more frightening, the normal “losses” of...
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Jennifer Cattet
Aug 6, 20203 min read
Robin, the school dog – Tammy Beechler
Robin’s training began a year ago with the professional guidance of Jennifer Cattet and her supportive staff at Medical Mutts. Jennifer...
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Jennifer Cattet
Mar 10, 20205 min read
When it comes to service dogs, does breed matter?
Can a Chihuahua, a Great Pyrenees or a Pit bull be a service dog? Do service dogs have to be Labradors, Golden Retrievers or German...
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Jennifer Cattet
Feb 1, 20205 min read
Thinking of getting a Diabetes Alert Dog? What to look for ?
There are many companies, both for-profit and not-for-profit that train diabetes alert dogs. Most offer high-quality service dogs with...
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Jennifer Cattet
Jan 3, 20206 min read
Why are service dogs so expensive?
Over the years, service dogs and working dogs in general, have shown the many ways they can assist those in need by offering autonomy...
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