Working animals

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Working Animals By: Megan Pellman Silver Creek High School Spring 2011

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working animals: therapy, service, police, army, navy, search and rescue

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Working Animals

• By: Megan Pellman• Silver Creek High School• Spring 2011

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History

• Animals used for labor, hunting, food, clothing, etc.

• Technology increases the uses we have for animals

• Therapy, guide, police, army, navy, etc.

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Therapy

• Dogs, Horses, Dolphins• No laws• Motivational, aids muscles and speed of

recovery of mental/emotional and physical illness

• Mostly children• Known to relieve stress

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Therapy Dogs

• Live with child• Early warning about

seizures or other medical attacks

• Help guide across streets, flip switches on medical equipment to save lives

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Therapy Horses

• Miniature horses and regular sized horses

• Schools, hospitals, riding areas

• Aid physical growth, allows child to practice speech, balance, etc

• fun

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Therapy Dolphins

• Motivational• Gives rewards• Helps attention span,

motivation, motor skills, thinking, and others in children

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Research

• Research has proven that animals bring emotional relief, cheeriness, and overall better physical health when they are around people

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Service

• Dogs, Horses, Monkeys, etc.• Has laws, but people take advantage of them• Blindness, mental, seizures, etc. • Helps with basic things: opening doors, fetch

packages, turn lights on or off, call someone• Animal stays with owner throughout its life• Extensive training, trained according to owner

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Names

• Service-legal term• Assistance• Mobility• Walker• Support• Guide

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Service Dog

• Trained individually• Not to be petted on the

job• Aids variety of

disabilities including blindness, arthritis, and autism

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Service Horse

• Long lived• Natural herding instinct• Better for people with

allergies to dogs, cynophobia, and are horse animals

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Service Monkey

• Capuchin monkey• Carefully placed• Helps paralyzed, or

people with severe mobility impairment

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Against

• Americans with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) requires that service animals be allowed wherever their owners want to go

• Many public places are refusing service animals entrance

• People are committing fraud, they create fake identification and pass their animals off as service animals allowing them access

• Many people are attacking diseases that service animals may have

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Variety

• Many different types of service animal

• Parrots, goats, pigs, cats, ferrets, an iguana, and a duck

• Dogs, horses, monkeys

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Jobs

• Military, Navy, Police, Search and Rescue

• Dogs, Horses, Pigeons, Dolphins, etc

• Detect drugs, bombs, dead, injured, ships, and odor recognition

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Police Dog

• Help drowning people, abductions, finding lost elderly, find dead, explosives, and drugs

• K9 units• Most come from

shelters or are bred specifically

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Police Horse

• Uses in cities and parks• Able to move more

freely and faster• In the beginning there

was only one rented horse

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Army

• Dogs follow scents, find people, dead or alive, and find explosives

• Horses were used for cavalry

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Navy

• Bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions

• Sonar and water vision• Find underwater mines,

rescue lost naval swimmers

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Pigeons

• Used to deliver messages: in rough land and in other places

• Navy and Army• Some became war

heroes

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Search and Rescue

• Bloodhounds, German Shephards, Labrador retrievers, Newfoundlands, St. Bernards

• Trail or Air scent• Help find lost people in

woods, water, snow, and major catastrophes

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Rescue

• Animals and People rescue each other from dangerous situations all the time.

• Heroic stories from animals leaping into the water to save a drowning person

• People rescuing animals from bad fates

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