Voice Of Vashon

Discussion with Jinna Risdal about the health benefits of having a comfort. Jinna works with Pet Partners, a 43-year-old organization dedicated to training human-dog teams to visit locations as diverse as hospitals, senior facilities, schools, libraries, courts and even airports

Discussion with Jinna Risdal about comfort dogs. Jinna works with Pet Partners, a 43-year-old organization dedicated to training human-dog teams to visit locations as diverse as hospitals, senior facilities, schools, libraries, courts and even airports

My guest for this episode is Kimberly Hyde, Trainer and Public Relations person with the Prison Pet Partnership Program at the Women’s Correction Center of Washington (Purdy WA). I would also like to interview several current inmates who are training service dogs and are in the grooming program.

My guest for this episode is Kimberly Hyde, Trainer and Public Relations person with the Prison Pet Partnership Program at the Women’s Correction Center of Washington (Purdy WA). I would also like to interview several current inmates who are training service dogs and are in the grooming program.

Jinna Risdal, Char Phillips will go into specific details regarding selecting service animals for training, training service animals (dogs and miniature horses), areas of service animals can provide to persons with physical, sensory (hearing, vision) , cognitive, emotional, and behavioral disabilities. Service dogs have also been used effectively with persons with autism and diabetes, and seizure […]

Who Let the Dogs Out, addresses service dogs and starts out with a discussion of basic Americans with Disabilities Act Laws regarding service animals. Host Steve Nourse has recruited Jinna Risdal & Char Phillips, experts in the field of service animals to discuss this issue.