Service Animals In The Lab: Who Decides?

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🗓️ 6 February 2020

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Summary

Joey Ramp's service dog, Sampson, is with her at all times, even when she has to work in a laboratory. It wasn't always easy to have him at her side. Joey tells us why she's trying to help more service animals and their handlers work in laboratory settings.

We first read about Joey in The Scientist. See pictures of Joey and her service dog Sampson here, and learn more about the work she does with service animals and their handlers here.

Follow Sampson on Twitter @sampson_dog and host Maddie Sofia @maddie_sofia. Email the show at [email protected].

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:05.0	So if you're a scientist, say a biologist or a chemist and you have to work in a lab,
0:11.0	you're super familiar with the term PPE.
0:14.0	Personal Protective Equipment, which is PPE, is outer garments, goggles, boots, and gloves.
0:23.0	That's Joey Ramp. She works at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
0:28.0	at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
0:31.0	And yeah, basically anybody who sets foot in a lab needs some form of PPE.
0:36.0	Sam, here.
0:37.0	Even if you have four feet.
0:41.0	See, Joey has a service dog.
0:44.0	Can you hear me?
0:45.0	I can hear a little like grunt.
0:47.0	Samson.
0:48.0	Okay, he was getting up.
0:49.0	All right, here we go.
0:50.0	Oh, there he is.
0:52.0	Samson, a golden retriever, is trained not to bark.
0:57.0	And he's a very good boy.
0:59.0	When he's in the lab with Joey, he wears goggles, worn by military canine and by police canine and law enforcement.
1:06.0	He wears rubber bottom boots on each paw, and he also wears a lab coat underneath his harness.
1:13.0	And that keeps him safe.
1:15.0	Samson, in turn, keeps Joey safe in the lab and out.
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