BUCHANANFPC PHOTO (RENEGADE, SERVICE CANINE, AND MIGUELINA ESCOBAR DE MORALES)

BUCHANANFPC PHOTO (ZACH II WITH MARBLE, SERVICE CANINE)

BUCHANANFPC PHOTO (AGUEDA DE LOS SANTOS AND SERGIO ARIAS)

BUCHANANFPC PHOTO (BARBARA ROOK AND HER SERVICE CANINE, A BOXER)

BUCHANANFPC PHOTO (JOANNA TOMS AND HER PRIZED ROTTWEILER)

BUCHANANFPC PHOTO (ALISON l GIANOTTO AND HER MASCOT, ZOEY)

BUCHANANFPC PHOTO (RENEGADE, MIGUELINA & GEORGE)

BUCHANANFPC PHOTO (DANNY BOY, AMERICAN PIT BULL, AND LUZ SUAREZ)

BUCHANANFPC PHOTO (UNITED STATES SERVICE DOG REGISTRY)

BUCHANANFPC PHOTO (RENEGADE AND KING ARTHUR, SERVICE CANINES)

BUCHANANFPC PHOTO (RILEY, SERVICE DOG AND MASCOT FOR SOSA / LORM)

BUCHANANFPC PHOTO (LADY AMBER, GERMAN SHEPHARD -- NOVEMBER 22, 1986 TO JANUARY 18, 1999)

BUCHANANFPC PHOTO (RENEGADE, LABRADOR -- JANUARY 15, 1994 TO OCTOBER 31, 2007)

BUCHANANFPC PHOTO (BRUCE, ROTTWEILER -- OCTOBER 10, 1988 TO MAY 21, 2000)

BUCHANANFPC PHOTO (DANNY BOY, AMERICAN PIT BULL TERRIER -- FIRST PIT GRADUATE)

Thank You!

 

BUCHANANFPC ANIMATION (NINE DARK BLUE PAWS)

 

The majority of the Canines and Felines that pass through our Organization are usually in a state of shock, malnutrition, dirty, traumatized, diseased, and/or physically abused.  Even with emergency and long term medical care, not all of them survive.  At Renegades Save Our Service Animals Foundation we have witnessed many such horrors.  With tears in our eyes, we have been left with no other alternative but to make the final decision of putting a companion animal to sleep, while others don't even make it to the Vet.  Fortunately, there are those that endure, and for them Renegades Save Our Service Animals Foundation has and will continue to push the known and acceptable limits of Service and Therapy Animals in order to ensure and guarantee that these companion animals are NEVER, EVER abandoned, homeless, and/or abused again.

 

The Socialization phase, for these homeless and abandoned companion animals, is extremely important to their success as Service and Therapy Animals and as adopted Mascots.  They are taken to as many community and out-of-neighborhood locations as possible to allow them to become familiarize with different sights, sounds, smells, surfaces to walk on, people, children, etc.  This further accustoms them to varying daily routines such as riding in cars, trucks, vans, using the subway, using escalators, elevators, traveling in airplanes. even boats and ships.   It also enhances their ability for waiting patiently and quietly under tables and desks, a task that is not at all exciting, but very important.  Some state statutes grant Service Animals in training the same public access rights guaranteed a trained Service Animal through the American with Disabilities Act.  As long as the animal is identified by the individual as being a Service Animal and/or a Service Animal in Training with a Trainer, it can go to any public place including stores, malls, restaurants, grocery stores, theatres, beaches, etc.  Educating the public regarding Service Animals and people with Disabilities is an important role that Renegades Save Our Service Animals Foundation has during its daily community outings with their Service Animals and/or Puppies and/or Kittens in Training.

 

For those homeless and abandoned companion animals that are unable to properly adjust, Renegades Save Our Service Animals Foundation makes it a priority to locate foster and permanent homes that will meet their specialized needs.  For those companion animals that simply are not interested in becoming a Service, Assistance, or Therapy Animal, Renegades Save Our Service Animals Foundation takes the initiative of finding stabilized family environments and individuals that  will ensure to give all the much needed love and attention, aside from their daily needs, that these wondrous living creatures deserve.

 

One objective of Renegades Save Our Service Animals Foundation is to prepare the abandoned and homeless companion animal for successfully achieving and mastering different handicapped disciplines, and partnering well with the Disabled Individual.  Mascots (normal household pets) will benefit from this type of training, as it will enable them to be a more sociable and well mannered Canine Citizens.

 

The Renegades Save Our Service Animals Foundation canines undergo the following training phases: Puppy Training; Grooming; Basic Language & Obedience; Resocialization & Rehabilitation (high priority);   Advanced Language & Obedience; Seeing-Eye Specific Tasks; Wheelchair Specific Tasks; Seizure-Alert Specific Tasks; Hearing Assistance Specific Tasks; Emotionally Challenged Specific Tasks; Developmentally Impaired Specific Tasks; Crutches & Canes Specific Tasks; and Training with other Assistive Devices.  These incredible dogs even undertake classes in Canine-Human Relations in order to better handle various situations with their future human partners, and in Canine-Human Public Relations as they are, while working, together better educating the public.  In addition, Renegades Save Our Service Animals Foundation promotes the ability for the canines to analyze and find appropriate solutions to both simple and complex circumstances encountered in their daily work.

 

Basic and Advanced Handicapped Specific Tasks include, but is not  limited to, picking up dropped objects and placing it in hand; retrieve items such as keys and money; retrieval of working harness and leash; search and retrieve lost items; knowledge of when to refuse an instruction and/or command; knowing when and when not to cross the streets; walking with the flow of traffic on the walkway, street, roadside in neighborhoods where there is no sidewalk, etc; avoiding overhead obstacles and obstructions on level surfaces;  assisting an individual with ascending and descending stairs; following a person with sight, such as family members and assistants; moving through moderate and heavy crowds; maneuvering around furniture, ice, poles, mud, puddles, and other surface obstacles; lead the impaired individual, but not pull; locating the door and opening it; assisting a person with support in sitting and standing modes; using escalators and elevators; turning the lights on and off in a room; letting their human partner know when the phone is ringing, if someone is knocking at the door, or the baby is crying; and many other specialized tasks.

 

HEARING DOG: Companion animals that are specially trained to respond to a huge variety of sounds in order to better assist and alert their individual partner that is hard of hearing or deaf.  Some such sounds include, but is not limited to:

Smoke and Fire Alarms

Clock Alarms

Telephone

Baby Crying

Sirens

Another Person

Timers Buzzing

Knocks at Door

Unusual Sounds

 

SEIZURE-ALERT AND RESPONSE: Companion animals that have the ability to warn a person of an impending seizure moments or hours before the person has clinical signs of a seizure. When trained to have safe, reliable behavior in public, these companion animals can be Service Animals for people with Disabilities.

The companion animal recognizes that a seizure is going to occur and then physically reacts to that perception.  Several hypothesis have been proposed as to what a Service Animal recognizes when a seizure is about to take place.  Some believe that the companion animal perceives slight changes in a person's body language or behavior before a seizure and that this is the trigger.  Others believe that these animals detect very subtle changes in a person's body odor prior to a seizure.  This is an ability that the Service Animal exhibits immediately or develops over time while in contact with a person who has seizures.  The ability in companion animals to detect seizures seems to be fairly common, as numerous individuals with seizures report seizure alerting behavior in their pets.  It appears that a companion animal's perception of oncoming seizures is not a behavior that can be "trained"; rather, it can only be identified and encouraged.

Service Animals display a wide range of alerting behaviors.  Some have been observed to lick their owner's hands; bark at the owner's or person's familiar to the owner; or act restless and pace prior to the person's seizure.  The amount of time from when the companion animal alerts to the actual onset of the seizure varies from animal to animal.  Some Service Animals alert only for their owners; while others, can develop the ability to alert for more than one person.  Identifying consistent alerting behavior in a companion animal that alerts long before a seizure requires an astute and careful observer due to the lapse of time between the alert and the seizure.

 

SEEING-EYE ASSISTANTS: Companion animals that lead a person who has a visual impairment around obstacles and to various destinations.

MOBILITY and RETRIEVAL ASSIST: Companion animals that have the ability to help a person balance for transfer; ambulation; pulling wheelchair; and helping individuals from sitting or fallen position.  Companion animals that retrieve items that are dropped or otherwise out of reach, and by carrying items that are dropped or otherwise out of reach, and by carrying items by mouth. They also open and close doors; undress and dress the individuals; carry items in backpack; act as a physical buffer to jostling by others; put clothes in washer and dryer; bark to alert for help. 

PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE ANIMAL: Companion animals individually trained to perform tasks for a person living with a Mental Health Disability. These tasks may include, but are not limited to the following:

Major Depression

Assist in waking the person at the same time each morning; retrieve medications; assist with household chores; assist the owner in leaving the house and into public and social settings; hug or stay with the individual during acute episodes.

Bipolar Disorder

Alerts to incipient mania; aggressive driving; or other uncharacteristic behaviors.

Schizophrenia

Assist in differentiating real from unreal sights, sounds, and other hallucinatory phenomena; provide a safe and stable presence for the owner that is disoriented; take the individual home or to an otherwise safer location.

Disassociate Identity Disorder

Alert to, or interrupt disassociate episodes; provide a safe and stable presence while the owner recovers from a disassociate episode.

Panic Disorder / Anxiety Disorder

Alert to incipient attacks; provide a safe and stable presence for the individual during an attack; warm the owner's chilled body during an attack.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Assist with hyper-vigilance and threat assessment; provide a tactile focus for the owner who is triggered; bring the individual to a safer location; assist the person with staying in-the-present.

 

 

 
   

 

BUCHANANFPC PHOTO (RILEY, SERVICE DOG AND MASCOT FOR SOSA / LORM)

Sir Riley

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