Karess Lee
WRD110-019
September 26,2014
Ms.Lopez

Topics: University of Kentucky Wildcat Service Dogs. I found this article at http://www.kentucky.com/2012/12/31/2460542/students-make-university-of-kentucky.html. The publisher is Linda B. Blackford on December 31, 2012. I decided to blog about thous article and find more information after hearing a classmate talk about it.

Summary-Topic:University of Kentucky Wildcat Service Dogs. I found this article to be very interesting because they decided to do their own dog care organization. Students are to train the dog to become a service dog. The students must take the dog everywhere they go. The dogs have to learn how to be serious that it isn't really time to play and they learn this as a puppy. The trainers don't cuddle or get the dogs excited for things because they have to learn to adapt to their surrounding and not get overly excited to new things. Katie Sharvan was a sophomore at University of Kentucky and decided how she wanted to be more involved with training them. University of Kentucky approved here organization and they now have 6 trainers and 20 students to help. The Wildcat dogs usually stay with their student trainers for 12-18 months. The train dogs are really valuable. Katie once sold a dog for 20,000 dollars.Service dogs are not guide dog. Service dogs help the sick or disabled with a multitude of problems for example physical disabilities, illnesses or disorders such as autism.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/12/31/2460542/students-make-university-of-kentucky.html#storylink=cpy

Questions/Reflection:University of Kentucky Wildcat Service Dogs. After really reading this article this has made me really wish people would show equal attention to  both organizations. 4 Paws for Ability mostly focuses on children while Wildcat Service Dogs focuses on all ages. Why don't they just come together as one? I feel as if they come together as one it would be a more profit organization because even though they both are similar they still have different focuses on things. Is it harder keeping up with organization because of 4 Paws for Ability? I feel like this organization would be harder to keep up with because they most people really don't know about them as well as 4 Paws for Ability so they would get less help and less funding. I feel as if they should come together so they can get the same help and they can also split the funding .

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/12/31/2460542/students-make-university-of-kentucky.html#storylink=cpy