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This is what happens when a wheelchair user gets a back yard. Happiness with their dog. And other things that a wheelchair user can't typically access in the community like the opportunity to garden or even have accessible play equipment. #Accessibility Video description for inclusivity: Chesnyy playing fetch in...

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Admin post: Today was the final Rally Obedience trial of 2024 and in the upper level classes there was Chesnyy and I, the only wheelchair team, AND a blind woman with her dog. We competed on the exact same course as everyone else and we both turned in respectable rounds. In fact, although this wasn't our best show, Chesnyy and I firmly secured the Top Rottweiler in CKC Rally Obedience in Canada for 2024. Considering we missed 3 of the big shows due to illness, we've done amazing! A middle aged, non ambulatory woman and a 26 months old dog. ❤️ It's not often I have the privilege of competing against someone else with significant barriers because of their disability. To accommodate her, she's allowed to have someone accompany her on the course (without interfering with the dog) to read the signs to her and give some instruction (ie sit, forward, left turn, 10 feet to the jump-handler passes by, 10 feet to left about turn). That simple accommodation allows her to participate, just like everyone else. Most of the clubs that now host shows in our province are now used to me, but up until this year, accessibility and accommodations weren't something they put much thought into. Although, at the big shows they expect some disabled spectators or owners, there was often the mindset that people with disabilities don't train and compete with dogs, especially in performance events. There we're some major barriers and it took a lot of hard work just to be able to participate. The biggest barrier we face is the attituse. There's a LOT of things people assume we don't do, not ever considering that the main reason we don't, is because they have so many barriers that make it hard. "Disabled people don't go outside in the winter so it's OK if the sidewalk doesn't get cleared for a few days." "Wheelchair users don't drive themselves, they get dropped at the door, so we don't need proper accessible parking." These attitudes are backwards. Unfortunately, my ability to get out in the community, participate in activities and even pursue education and employment are all at the mercy of other people's decisions. The individuals at the municipal level who decide not to be proactive about enforcing snow removal, the elected officials who have decided not to put in accessibility legislation, putting us decades behind some other provinces. I don't even have the chance to demonstrate my competency at a job interview if a business decides to open up in an inaccessible spot. I've had to turn down speaking engagements at schools because they didn't have appropriate accessible parking in the lot, and community was designed with boulevards between the parking lane and sidewalk that are impassable when covered with snow or after rain. But when the decision makers choose accessibility and inclusivity, I get involved. I participate. I succeed. I make a positive impact. I go from being the disabled woman who got stuck trying to cross the street in a wheelchair while walking her dog to the badass woman in the wheelchair that trains the awesome rottweilers. #InclusionMatters #XDogs #Disability Alberta Government Video description for accessibility: clips of a young rottweiler on a rally obedience course with her handler/trainer, a woman in a power wheelchair

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