working animals
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Working Animals
• By: Megan Pellman• Silver Creek High School• Spring 2011
History
• Animals used for labor, hunting, food, clothing, etc.
• Technology increases the uses we have for animals
• Therapy, guide, police, army, navy, etc.
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
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
Therapy Horses
• Miniature horses and regular sized horses
• Schools, hospitals, riding areas
• Aid physical growth, allows child to practice speech, balance, etc
• fun
Therapy Dolphins
• Motivational• Gives rewards• Helps attention span,
motivation, motor skills, thinking, and others in children
Research
• Research has proven that animals bring emotional relief, cheeriness, and overall better physical health when they are around people
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
Names
• Service-legal term• Assistance• Mobility• Walker• Support• Guide
Service Dog
• Trained individually• Not to be petted on the
job• Aids variety of
disabilities including blindness, arthritis, and autism
Service Horse
• Long lived• Natural herding instinct• Better for people with
allergies to dogs, cynophobia, and are horse animals
Service Monkey
• Capuchin monkey• Carefully placed• Helps paralyzed, or
people with severe mobility impairment
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
Variety
• Many different types of service animal
• Parrots, goats, pigs, cats, ferrets, an iguana, and a duck
• Dogs, horses, monkeys
Jobs
• Military, Navy, Police, Search and Rescue
• Dogs, Horses, Pigeons, Dolphins, etc
• Detect drugs, bombs, dead, injured, ships, and odor recognition
Police Dog
• Help drowning people, abductions, finding lost elderly, find dead, explosives, and drugs
• K9 units• Most come from
shelters or are bred specifically
Police Horse
• Uses in cities and parks• Able to move more
freely and faster• In the beginning there
was only one rented horse
Army
• Dogs follow scents, find people, dead or alive, and find explosives
• Horses were used for cavalry
Navy
• Bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions
• Sonar and water vision• Find underwater mines,
rescue lost naval swimmers
Pigeons
• Used to deliver messages: in rough land and in other places
• Navy and Army• Some became war
heroes
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
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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