Runa, the Service Dog

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Runa, the Service Dog Runa is a service dog for Kyndyl. She is a rough coated collie. Runa, is a service dog in training for Kyndyl.

This is a page about her growth, development and sharing important information about service dogs. She is currently in training and has already been a huge help to Kyndyl.

It’s taken nearly 18 months and a lot of healing on BOTH OUR PARTS … but runa walked past the house of the dog that at...
21/12/2024

It’s taken nearly 18 months and a lot of healing on BOTH OUR PARTS … but runa walked past the house of the dog that attacked her in June of 2023 . ( to my knowledge that dog was euthanized and they started over with a new one)And looks like she is following the trail we haven’t walked since that day. Also this attack occurred a week before a tumor removal surgery that could have (and almost did) cost me the ability to speak. Or bled out on the table … so I didn’t have my medical equipment and spent a lot of my recovery dealing with her injuries

06/02/2024

Tried to post this a few days ago but guess it didn’t upload just some video of runas latest new task. Never underestimate a true service dog

Runa turned 8 years old today. I can’t believe it has almost been 8 years since I brought her home. After years of searc...
06/02/2024

Runa turned 8 years old today. I can’t believe it has almost been 8 years since I brought her home. After years of searching and heartbreaking results. To finally have her and know she was a good prospect. There’s many reasons why her registered name is Dreams Made Flesh. First, because that is precisely who and what she is. Secondly, I am a huge black jewels trilogy geek and she is and was the culmination of YEARS of dreaming, and the changes she made/ continues to make in my life really resemble the changes Witch made in the realms. It’s also one reason I call her witch-child

24/12/2023

Merry Christmas . Happy Belated solstice and happy holidays to you all. Dropping in to share video of Runa with her Yule gift. Got fresh bones and organs from a local farm that were harvested Friday. So I split it up between some fellow pup owners and I. So I gave runa. Lower leg to work on it took her a bit, but she figured it out

Never underestimate the skills of a service dog. Runa is now 7 years old soon to be 8. And she is still developing her o...
09/12/2023

Never underestimate the skills of a service dog. Runa is now 7 years old soon to be 8. And she is still developing her own alerts and tasks to adapt to my changing/decreasing health. Last spring and summer it was waking me up from flashbacks/nightmares by scratching at the door like she had to go to the bathroom. then either sitting at the top of the stairs or herding me away from going back to bed. On really bad nights she would insist on going out but only sit on the ground til I joined her.

A few months ago between a second surgery to attempt to remove a mass out of my throat (since the local “surgeon” botched it and my aftercare) my pain and heart level spiked. She started herding me to the side of the road on our walks and stopping dead in her tracks if I tried to keep walking. I took this as her being disobedient and got very frustrated. I am used to dealing with/ignoring pain and the body I am in so I didn’t pay attention.
When I DID pay attention, I noticed after a few minutes of being still and quiet while she watched me like a HAWK. She would go back to walking normally for awhile then repeat. A couple of weeks ago she started being more insistent so input it together that it was probably a cardiac/body pain alert. So I started sitting on the ground when she herded me to the side. THAT was apparently the right answer. As she would stand over me so I couldn’t get back up. Until she decided to let me.
I started actually checking in with myself and realized there was a correlation between them so now if I overdo it or ignore my body’s signals I know she is telling me to take a break

Pics : A tricolor collie laying down after she decided I listened to her, and runas normal walking pace and attention will try and get video of the other reaction and post it. She will probably alert again on the walk since I have a foot injury. And I am ignoring/shut off the sensation other than pressure in that foot

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Heya all first post in a long time I know. It has been a hell of a year with a botched surgery by an incompetent doctor ...
29/11/2023

Heya all first post in a long time I know. It has been a hell of a year with a botched surgery by an incompetent doctor . Recovery from that mess. Finally getting a referral to a competent surgeon and having to go up and back to St. Louis multiple times. Runa getting attacked by a neighbors dog a week before my second surgery. Trying to get her healthy again. My own recovery and finding out the surgery partially paralyzed my larynx. Medication stopped working on top of other things… yea so Runa nor I have been doing a lot.

Yesterday, I took Runa to counseling with me and to our coffee time with friends afterward. She did amazing both places. He was her first official vested outing in awhile other than work. I am hoping to start incorporating her back into things . Was terrified the attack would make her unable to work, but thank Gods that hasn’t been the case

19/09/2023

Runa is trying out a new skill today.West plains NASDA training. We just did her first runs tracking the rats with the trainer and runa had a blast will post videos in a bit

I know it’s been quiet around here. It has been an incredibly rough few months between my health, surgeries and Runa bei...
22/08/2023

I know it’s been quiet around here. It has been an incredibly rough few months between my health, surgeries and Runa being attacked a few weeks ago on our walk. It was a week before I had another surgery to try and remove a mass out of my throat. So BAD timing. Thank Gods for two local vets, and Runa’s amazing petsitter HomeBuddy who took care of her while I was in the hospital across the state. We are both recovering though the surgery left me with laryngeal paralysis because of nerve damage.
The short version is that half my larynx is paralyzed and no longer moves independently. Since I am one of the “lucky” ones that the flap has move close to the center. I am working with a permanently halved airway. So with temps over 100 the last few days and continuing through this week. Going outside is not a good option and frankly a crap shoot as to what affects it will have.
Runa had recently been starting a new task when waking me up from night terrors/flashbacks. She would wake me up like she needed to go to the bathroom. I would open the door and she would only go to the top of the stairs and lay down. If I tried to go back to bed she would herd me away from the bed and back out into the hall. And keep doing this til she judged it was ok for me to return to bed. That was before the surgery.
This morning we got out before it got too hot and started on our previously usual walking path ( she and I have been avoiding the site where the attack occurred so that has shortened our walks considerably) . Everything was going pretty well, we made it past the attack site with no issues. I crossed the street because even after leaving her gate I pen and her dog out. Now her fence is broken along the side and doesn’t look like it’s been repaired in weeks. Runa was walking right along and I was handling it ok til we got down by the high school. The temp had increased so I was starting to have problems breathing but this was Runas walk and I wasn’t going to interfere with it. She started sniffing around, looking back at me, sniff, look
Then she looked at me hard and turned around and walked back up the hill VERY fast. And she kept looking back at me til I matched her pace and walked beside her. She was still walking very fast and watching me. I told her “yes, I get it I need to get out of the heat” at which point she looked at me like “finally, you caught on”. She pulled into the drive way and only started slowing down then and then came inside and lay down while we both cooled off.

Proof that when you have a dog that is RIGHT for service dog work it’s the best investment you can make. Even when your disabilities change and expand they pick up on it. Changing up the pic tax cause I don’t have any current ones of runa without her injuries. Soo instead I share this gorgeous Ardennes stallion who is going to be a reference pic for my back piece

Your dog might be a TINY bit spoiled if you travel alone, but get a room with a king size bed. So she can fold space and...
05/07/2023

Your dog might be a TINY bit spoiled if you travel alone, but get a room with a king size bed. So she can fold space and take up most of it. Does not look like she does but I only have the upper left corner.

01/05/2023

You MIGHT be a Survivor of some truly fu**ed up stuff if you can turn off pain that is enough to make even you grey out just to help clients load and unload groceries and take your pup walk for several Miles!!

Yes I have gone to doc. Gotten labs and three day course of steroids in case this is gout or another inflammation. If that and first aid measures don’t fix it we will get X-rays thurs

Update turns out thanks to injuries, genetics or murphys law; I have osteo arthritis in that ankle on top of the RA like reaction everywhere else

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Runa, is service dog for Kyndyl. She was primarily owner-trained with the assistance of a professional trainer (At your Service Dog Training). She is a two year old purebred Rough Coated Collie. She has been in constant training since she came home at 8 weeks old.

Runa has made it possible for Kyndyl to remain out of the hospital since she came home with him. She is also making it possible for him to attend graduate school and eventually get off disability.