11. K9 Cop to Dad with a Special Needs Child Interview with Jerry Turning
Happiness Solved
Sandee Sgarlata
5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
🐕 Sandee had to give her Goldendoodles, Luke and Lacey, up for adoption. 0:51
🐶 After the pandemic hit, Sandee could not find a pet to rescue, so they got a little Yorkie-poo. 2:36
👮🏻♂️ Jerry is a freshly retired canine police officer. 5:27
🐕🦺 Being a canine officer is a large responsibility and a very stressful job because the dogs he is working with are not pets. 07:06
🚨 'Good boy' has a totally different meaning when you have a police dog. 9:40
🤗 When Jerry was promoted to the rank of Captain in the police department, he had to be in the office all the time and his dog was retired and enjoyed life at home with him. 13:36
👦🏻 Jerry's son was diagnosed with autism in 2007, and it changed the life of their family. 16:12
✍🏻 The writing was the outlet Jerry used to handle his emotions and cope with issues he was facing. 19:44
🤷♂️ Dads feel like it's their job to fix things. 24:24
😇 Eric is a verbal autistic teenager with a large vocabulary. 29:20
🥺 Comparison is a terrible and nasty beast. 33:26
🙏🏻 Jerry realized he's being blessed, and that he is a better person and father because of his son. 37:48
💥 Writing a novel was a great and cathartic experience for Jerry. 39:11
🙃 Developing a fictional character for the book raised some questions from Jerry's relatives and community. 41:40
💪🏻 Jerry founded Blue Bridge Training company in order to provide training on autism to police and fire departments, and also to EMS search and rescue teams. 47:53
🔗 Connect with Jerry:
Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/BaconandJuiceBoxes
Book "Desperate Pursuits" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08Q5YN65B
Blog: https://www.baconandjuiceboxes.com/
Company: https://www.bluebridgetraining.com
Connect with Sandee
Sandee’s book: https://sandeesgarlata.com/the-book
https://www.facebook.com/coachsandeesgarlata/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Happiness Salt with Sandy Scarlata. |
| 0:16.9 | Stay tuned for today's interview with Jerry Ternin. |
| 0:20.9 | Hey everyone, welcome! |
| 0:29.7 | So happy you could join us today. |
| 0:31.7 | I'm going to be speaking with Jerry Ternin in a little bit. |
| 0:35.7 | But before we get to that, because Jerry was a, he's just recently retired, but he was |
| 0:42.7 | a canine police officer. |
| 0:45.5 | And he's going to talk all about that. |
| 0:48.0 | So I thought I would talk a little bit about my little guy. |
| 0:51.9 | So I haven't had a dog in a number of years. |
| 0:55.4 | And fortunately, I had two amazing puppies. |
| 0:59.6 | Oh gosh, they were brother and sister Luke and Lacey. |
| 1:03.0 | Both were Golden Doodles. |
| 1:04.8 | Lacey we got her first and she was probably like 45 pounds, kind of a small Golden Doodle. |
| 1:11.1 | And then I got Luke from the same breeder, so they had the same father, but different |
| 1:14.9 | mothers. |
| 1:15.9 | And she was like, well, we can't guarantee how big he's going to be and if they thought |
| 1:19.7 | he would end up being about 50 pounds, just a little bit bigger than Lacey. |
| 1:24.2 | So Luke was six months old and I looked at his back seat and I was like, holy cow. |
| 1:30.4 | This dog is going to be massive. |
| 1:31.9 | He ended up being 85 pounds, but just such, they were both just such great dogs. |
| 1:36.9 | After I got divorced and went back to work full time, I found myself being gone from |
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