Pepper the 'owner trained' Assistance Dog - BBC Midlands Today (11/08/20)

Featured on BBC Midlands Today, Evening News: 11/08/2020.

An insight into how Pepper the Assistance Dog helps her owner who suffers from a rare genetic disorder known as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, and returning to the "new normal" after sheilding for over 4 months.

[coldcaseedits]

Assistancedogs are so important people don’t realise how important they are

[coldcaseedits]

Assistancedogs are so important people don’t realise how important they are

[rene]

Assistance Dogs are amazing!
The problem is the recognition by the law and training.
Here in Germany Assistance Dogs have the same rights as guiding dogs for blind people but the health care doesn't pay for them as they only treat the followings of a disability and not the disability themselfs which is quite sad.
But here we can also self train assistance dogs there are no regulations. You can just put a nice west on a tame dog and thats it.

[wcekwspes]

I still feel honoured that I own and Chispa now wears the vest in the video💕🥰

[msmakos]

Where I am from, assistance dogs are the same as other countries. I live in America. Our assistance animals are emotional support animals, therapy animals and service dogs. But one is different from the rest completely. Service dogs under the Americans with Disabilities Act is the only assistance animal that is allowed in public. These dogs are guide and hearing dogs (their categorized together I don’t know why), medical alert and response, mobility, and psychiatric. But psychiatric isn’t emotional support. Psychiatric service dogs are the babies of the assistance animals. They’re about a decade old. Scientist are still trying to figure out how dogs help with psychiatric disabilities.

[Clifford_in_training]

Why is it in brackets? I find that very rude.

[lailahepburnandmischka]

What happened to chloe?!
I loved little chloe, reminds me of my assistance dog, he's a 9lb chihuahua lol so I always love seeing other little dogs working.

I'm getting a lab in a few months though cuz I need a bigger dog to do all of the tasks I need. My current dog is great but very limited by his size unfortunately :(

I want to get my lab now but I need to wait til I move house cuz there are several dangerous dogs in this block, my next door neighbours dog has literally mauled many people, he tried to kill my assistance dog before and then ripped chunks out of my boyfriend cuz I stopped him getting to my AD. My boyfriend is scarred for like both physically and mentally, and I'm traumatised by it too, I have nightmares about that dog and whenever I go out I have to walk past my neighbours door and the dog goes crazy barking at me and trying to break through the door to get to me and its TERRIFYING, I have to try to carry both my dogs in and out now which is really awkward, especially when I'm trying to lock/unlock my door.

I hate people who don't control their dogs, if my assistance dog gets hurt by that beast I'll be suing the owner for several thousand pounds 🤬

[Artie_Fox]

Well IAADP want to get rid of owner trained assistance dogs so now many people like myself can’t afford charities and will be left to suffer without the help of an assistance dog please raise awareness of this as if America can have owner trained so should we it’s unfair for loads of people especially when charities are expensive and waiting lists take years