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I was looking through your blog to figure out how in the hell you got a Kelpie Husky mix and just. Prison. Of course. Who wouldn't want a ridiculously intelligent aggressive breed in prison. I wonder if she has siblings, and what they're up to.

So, full context, and why you’d want a very intelligent and driven breed in prison, and later in schools, public settings, and with my heavily neurodivergent family:

Arwen was originally adopted out of a Kansas shelter by Disco’s Dogs, a nonprofit organization that screens shelters for intelligent, human-focused dogs to be trained as service dogs for people with Autism-spectrum disorder and other neurodivergent issues.  During the dogs puppyhood/initial training, they’re raised by people serving time at various prisons in CO as part of a prison rehab program.  The programs take all kinds of dogs, of every breed and mix, as long as they’re smart enough to learn commands and don’t freak out around news stimuli.

As much of an asshole as Arwen is, she’s also 100% ready to make friends with new people, isn’t scared of new things or intense stimuli (Loud noises, weird smells, large crowds etc.), learns new and complex commands with ease and can recognize context clues to shape up and behave herself in a professional setting.  She’s a fully trained autism-spectrum service animal and was about to be placed with a family when the poor guy had a serious health problem and had to be moved into assisted living and couldn’t take her.

At about that time, we had grieved the passing of our former dog (another therapy-certified dog named Cody, the most gentlemanly german shepherd to live), and mom was looking to adopt another dog to do child therapy in schools with our local organization HABIC, and was looking for another German shepherd.

Which, if you were a volunteer filling out adoption profiles who didn’t know what a Kelpie is, she probably looks like she might be part german shepherd, right?

To clarify Arwen’s training, for people who are confused:

Arwen was FIRST trained as a Service dog, then trained LATER after we adopted her as a Therapy dog, which has many overlapping skills,  Both are things that require rigorous training, legal ceritifcation, and testing.  When at home, she can fulfil the role of an emotional support animal but mostly she sleeps on the couch and tries to steal cheese.

90% of the time we tend to treat her as a family member/pet, but when she puts her service vest on, she becomes Professional Therapy Dog, and instantly 9000% better behaved, so she can still go into schools, Juvenile detention, Courtrooms and Hospitals to do supervised therapy work with the kids and people there

Climbs on top of people to act as weighted blanket when panic attacks happen (Mostly at home but has happened at Juvenile detention too)

listens very patiently and attentively as the ESL and dyslexic kids read aloud to her (Dogs don’t notice when kids mess up, so they’re good to practice/gain confidence reading to)

be pettable stress ball for kids in therapy or testifying in court

be pettable stress ball for people coping with intense pain

teaching kids social skills (there’s a lot of ways this is done- either with a therapist modeling behavior, or Arwen teaching them directly by communicating with the kid )

Ignore kid’s commands until kids learn to speak to her clearly and calmly, teaching them verbal communication skills

encouraging people to do thier Physical Therapy by being adorable (It’s a lot easier to convince a guy to walk up and down the hall because the dog will enjoy it, than it is to tell him it’s for his own good)

So my parents’ dog can be a real pain in the butt that’s too smart by half and gets up to shenanigans when she’s bored or not on duty, but when she’s working all that brainpower and willingness to engage is great.  Kelpies and Huskies are both dogs with lots of drive and very much need something to do or they get bored/neurotic/destructive/aggressive, but when they’ve got a job (help Jonny get through this intense therapy session) they’re really great at preforming to high standards.

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