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Photo: Patrik Bergenstav / Swedish Kennel Club
Coco’s favorite game is Yatzy, something she often plays with people in a nursing home in Gothenburg. She rolls the dice herself and then takes them to the other participants. Stock Photography.
The lucky dog Cocos has been awarded the Social Service Dog of the Year award.
– I’m mega proud! It is completely revolutionary, I would like to say. After all the years I’ve struggled, it feels absolutely fantastic, says mother Cilla Cannerheim.
The Swedish Kennel Club annually awards an award to a successful service dog.
This year, the award went to Cocos, the six-year-old Staffordshire bull terrier, who in recent years has helped two pupils at home to go back to school.
Motivates the student
– Cocos and I go home with the student in the morning and she encourages the student to go to school. She helps dress, drives to school, and then we follow the student through parts of the school day, says Cilla Cannerheim.
Cocos has the ability to detect if someone close to her starts to get anxious and then signals the teacher.
– Then Cocos and the student usually go to the side and breathe together until the student has calmed down and can go back to class, Cannerheim says.
Reduce anxiety
Service dogs are used in many different professions and areas. Within the school, it is mainly schools where there has been a need for special measures which in turn have been taken with the help of a service dog. As in the case of Coco, it can be tried to alleviate the anxiety of some students.
In countries such as England, France, Japan, and the United States, dogs have been used for professional purposes for many years to influence human health. Social service dogs are used in Sweden mainly in elderly care, medical care, psychology, social services and now, in recent years, also in schools.
There are currently no compiled statistics showing how many social service dogs are active in Sweden.
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