- A New Face
- It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a Labrador!
- The First Day is a Big Day
- Day 2 with the Guide Dog puppy: Moving Fast
- Puppy Tales
- A Big Day 4 (and end of the first week)
- Service Animal Etiquette. Seriously, People.
- The Unseen Fun of a Service Dog’s Life
- Puppy’s First Clicker Session
- Steampunk Puppy: “They call me CAPTAIN Mindy!”
- Resisting Temptation
- Clicker Expo and After
- Mindy is proud.
- Practicing Recalls
- Toronto Training – a service dog in training hits the road
- Puppy Training on a FitPAWS Donut
- Puppy Goes Hiking
- Fireworks Without the Freak-Out
- Training & Gaming at Gen Con
- Assistance Dog Blog Carnival – a Call for Posts
- Perception and Service Dogs
- Recall Roundup
- Goodbye To Mindy
- Mindy: She’s Back!
- Mindy-Penny and the Return to Ordinary Life
I’ve been given the opportunity to host the Assistance Dog Blog Carnival, a collection of relevant blog posts on the topic of service dogs and their people.
This edition of the ADBC will go live on December 16, 2014. This round’s theme is:
Perceive.
This is an official call for posts! If you’d like to participate, write a post on service dogs, interpreting the theme “perceive” in any way you like.
I would like to have submissions by December 15, 2014. To participate, simply comment on this post with the name of your blog, the name of the carnival post, your name as you’d like it to appear in the carnival, and the post’s URL. (Not your blog’s general URL, but the post’s specific URL. It should look more like “www.CaninesInAction.com/service-dog-blog-carnival-a-call-for-posts” rather than “www.CaninesInAction.com”.) I’ll compile them all for sharing and linking.
Again, the theme is a guideline only — you may interpret it any way you like. And you need not be using a service dog to participate! Trainers, assistants, and thoughtful observers are welcome.
One note: it is even more important than usual (and it’s usually important) that blogs should be user-friendly and accessible for the ADBC. Blogs which require “word verification” or “captchas” can be quite difficult for the disabled or their assisting software. Please disable these. Also, descriptive text for images is helpful for the visually impaired (mouse over one of these images to see the alternate text). I admit that I’d often been sloppy about descriptive text, thinking of it only in SEO terms instead of user terms, until I started reading more posts from Guide Dogs for the Blind and from people with disabilities. Sharon Wachsler has a helpful guide here.
And for the love, let’s avoid these!
Any questions? Please ask! And please feel free to share and cross-post this call for posts, so that we can invite as many bloggers and readers as possible. And start those blog posts!
Thanks for hosting, Laura! 🙂
Here’s mine!
Name of the Blog: The Out of the Box Project
Name of the Post: How does my dog perceive mental illness?
My name: Jeremy Medlock
Blog Post URL:
Done!
Blog: SharonWachsler.com
Post: New Perspective: From Service Dog to Demo Dog
Name: Sharon Wachsler
URL: http://sharonwachsler.com/new-perspective-service-demo-dog/
I think I’m a bit late, but I’ll turn this in anyway. Thanks for hosting!
Blog: A Mutt and his pack
Post: A Mental Shift
Name: Flo
URL: http://duncanfloyd.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-mental-shift.html
You’re added! Sorry, I can’t comment on your blog.