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Assistance dog to increase independence for Whanganui teen Jaz Dangen-Forster
3 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Jaz Dangen-Forster with assistance dog Kip who will enable her to have more independence. Photo / Bevan Conley
Whanganui teenager Jaz Dangen-Forster is pleading with people to recognise assistance dogs as working animals, not pets. Jaz is in the process of acquiring Kip, a young dog currently being trained to assist with her medical conditions, and it has highlighted the issues people with assistance dogs can face.
Jaz, 17, has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), a genetic connective tissue disorder where abnormal collagen causes joints and connective tissue to become loose. She also has postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), associated with EDS, which causes an abnormal heart rate.
‘Covid-19 has an odour, and the dogs are detecting it’: meet the canine super-squad sniffing out the virus Sam Wollaston
A single-storey building in a lonely rural business park, a few miles from Milton Keynes on a grey autumn day. It looks like a location for a bleak thriller: where a kidnap victim is held, perhaps, or the scene of a final shootout. Inside, though, something kind of cool is happening.
In a brightly lit room, four inverted metal cups have been placed on the red carpet, each containing a small glass jar. One of these contains a smell: a “training odour”. Into the room bursts Billy, followed by Jess. Billy is a labrador, and Jess his human trainer. Billy bounces about the place, clearly super excited. He sniffs at everything – furniture, people, the cups – wagging ferociously. When he sniffs at the cup that contains the smell, another trainer, Jayde, indicates success with a clicking noise. Billy is rewarded with his favourite toy, a wel