{"id":4854,"date":"2015-05-13T17:20:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T21:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/ideafund\/?page_id=4854"},"modified":"2023-06-09T11:36:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T15:36:20","slug":"dog-house","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/ideafund\/home-2\/what-we-do\/dog-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/ideafund\/files\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-09-at-11.35.42-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/ideafund\/files\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-09-at-11.35.42-AM-1024x356.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/ideafund\/files\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-09-at-11.35.42-AM-1024x356.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/ideafund\/files\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-09-at-11.35.42-AM-300x104.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/ideafund\/files\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-09-at-11.35.42-AM-768x267.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/ideafund\/files\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-09-at-11.35.42-AM-1536x534.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/ideafund\/files\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-09-at-11.35.42-AM-2048x712.png 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/ideafund\/files\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-09-at-11.35.42-AM-766x266.png 766w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/ideafund\/files\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-09-at-11.35.42-AM-1200x417.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We raise service puppies for children with social\/emotional disabilities or serious medical conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lauren Holtz \u201915, inspired by programs at other colleges that allowed students to live with and raise service dogs, wanted replicate them\u00a0at Dickinson. After mulling it over and talking about it for a semester, Holtz came to an Idea Fund meeting and spoke about her vision for Dog House. Project consultants helped Lauren figure out who to talk to and how to start making it happen. After building a team, members identified <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northstardogs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">North Star Foundation<\/a> in Storrs, CT as partners. Then, during the spring 2013 semester, their first dog, Dino, came to Dickinson! A 6 month-old golden retriever, Dino received a month and a half of training and love, before going on to his new family and owner: a 12 year-old boy on the autism spectrum. Due to its initial success, Dog House is now a Community Service Initiative \u00a0officially recognized by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickinson.edu\/homepage\/111\/student_senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Student Senate<\/a>, and we have begun to work with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keystonehumanservices.org\/susquehanna-service-dogs\/default.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Susquehanna Service Dogs<\/a> to train more dogs more frequently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We raise service puppies for children with social\/emotional disabilities or serious medical conditions. Lauren Holtz \u201915, inspired by programs at other colleges that allowed students to live with and raise service dogs, wanted replicate them\u00a0at Dickinson. After mulling it over&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/ideafund\/home-2\/what-we-do\/dog-house\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":880,"featured_media":0,"parent":4838,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4854","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/ideafund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/ideafund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/ideafund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/ideafund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/ideafund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/ideafund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4854\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/ideafund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/ideafund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}