I want that job! Want to work with animals? Consider a career as a service-animal trainer.WHAT'S A SERVICE-ANIMAL TRAINER? A service-animal trainer teaches animals to perform tasks for people with disabilities. Monkeys This list includes individual non-human primates (capuchin monkeys, squirrel monkeys, Rhesus Macaques, and marmosets) who are in some way famous or notable. Note: This list does not include fictional monkeys, nor Apes, which are not monkeys. can become service animals, but the most common species to work as a service animal is the dog. WHAT DO SERVICE-ANIMAL TRAINERS DD? Service-animal trainers use positive reinforcement--such as praise and food rewards--to teach animals simple tasks, and then build up to tougher ones. They also feed the animals and clean up after them. HOW DO SERVICE-ANIMAL TRAINERS HELP PEOPLE? Service-animal trainers help give people with disabilities more independence. They train animals to help with tasks that those people otherwise might not be able to do. For instance, the animals retrieve items, turn lights on and off, pull wheelchairs, and guide the blind. HOW DO YOU PREPARE TD BECOME A SERVICE-ANIMAL TRAINER? Some service-animal trainers learn their jobs simply by working with experienced trainers. But because training service animals is so different from training other animals, experts recommend taking a course, if possible. For instance, the Assistance Dog Institute in Santa Rosa, California Santa Rosa is the county seat of Sonoma County, California, USA. As of January 1 2007, the population of Santa Rosa was approximately 157,985 residents. Santa Rosa is the largest city in California's Wine Country and fifth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, after San . offers everything from short seminars to college degree programs. HOW MUCH MONEY DD SERVICE-ANIMAL TRAINERS EARN? Pay varies in different locations and also depends on whether the trainer runs his or her own service-animal agency or works for someone. Typical salaries range from $25,000 to $35.000 a year. web extra Want more information on becoming a service-animal trainer? Then check out the Assistance Dog Institute's Web site at: www.assistancedog.org See .org. (networking) org - The top-level domain for organisations or individuals that don't fit any other top-level domain (national, com, edu, or gov). Though many have .org domains, it was never intended to be limited to non-profit organisations. RFC 1591. TRAINING THE TRAINERS Puppies and dogs surround Jorjan Powers at her office. What's with the canine canine or canid Any domestic or wild dog or doglike mammal (e.g., wolf, jackal, fox) in the family Canidae, found throughout the world except in Antarctica and on most ocean islands. coworkers? Powers is a service-dog trainer. She trains dogs to provide support for children with autism autism (ô`tĭzəm), developmental disability resulting from a neurological disorder that affects the normal functioning of the brain. It is characterized by the abnormal development of communication skills, social skills, and reasoning. . She is also the public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most director for the Assistance Dog Institute, an organization that is devoted to teaching people to train dogs to be helpers. "I love what I do," says Powers. "1 love seeing how it helps people." She wishes more people would enter the field. There aren't enough service dogs for all the people who need them. "But that's why it's good that we train trainers" she says. The new trainers can then prepare more dogs to be service animals. Powers jokes that there is one drawback DRAWBACK, com. law. An allowance made by the government to merchants on the reexportation of certain imported goods liable to duties, which, in some cases, consists of the whole; in others, of a part of the duties which had been paid upon the importation. to her job: Dog hair gets all over her clothes. "But that's OK. I consider it an accessory accessory, in criminal law, a person who, though not present at the commission of a crime, becomes a participator in the crime either before or after the fact of commission. ." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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