Madison Love is a student at Knox-Westerlo campus and she is diagnosed with autism and anxiety. Love has a mix-breed pet dog named Raindrop, which she adopted in September 2017 after a hurricane.

Love admits that she never intended to train Raindrop to become her service dog until her sister died. The death of her sister made her anxiety even worse and she also suffered from paranoia.

Love and her family know how expensive it is to train a service dog, so Love did a lot of research on training and started doing it herself. One of the things that Raindrop does to calm Love down is that she nudges Love to sit and lies across her lap.

“It sends a message to my brain and makes it so I can calm down a lot quicker,” Love said.

Article and photo source: altamontenterprise.com

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