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Post by Winona on Sept 2, 2016 13:03:32 GMT -5
The city of Westbrook: a town that can't quite be called small, but that can also not be referred to as a metropolis.
Situated on the outskirts of Westbrook on quite a few acres of land is a training center called Furry Company. Here, dogs are trained to be the new companions for people with any number of disabilities. Blindness, deafness, seizures... Furry Company manages to do it all.
When first arriving, you will notice the main building. This is where the main office is. By the looks of the cozy building, you can tell that it was once a house, now reinvented to be the main office. When you first walk in, you come across a secretary desk. In the back, there is a singular office for the manager, Kat Evermore. There are a few other offices that are used by other trainers if need be, along with a break room.
Traveling outside of this cozy little building, you will come across the main facilities. It is a huge building that was originally a barn for cows, then turned into a normal kennel, and then turned into a training facility.
Inside, there are several rooms with floor to ceiling glass windows so that you may watch what is going on. In one, puppies tumble across the floor as they're evaluated on whether or not they are service dog material or belong with a family. In another, an older puppy is learning the basics of training with a couple others to provide distractions. In another, you see someone working with their soon-to-be permanent service dog. There are six of these identical training rooms, although only the three are being occupied.
As you come to the end, you walk through a door to find kennels to either side of you. In the first few, you see some of the older dogs waiting to be placed. In the back, in some of the bigger kennels, are mother dogs with their young puppies. There are not many of these as Furry Company does not focus on the breeding of service dogs, just the training, but these were a special case.
Traveling back outside, you can see several outdoor pens for the exercise of the service dogs. A couple of these pens are set up to be like real life instances, such as crossing a street.
This is Furry Company, where dogs are trained to better the lives of many.
RP Rules - No spamming. - No powerplaying or godmodding. - No roleplaying another person's character without permission. - Please, no mary-sues or gary-stus. Not everyone is perfect. - You do not have to be completely literate, but please use correct grammar and no text talk. - And of course, follow the forum rules!
Rules for Service Dogs
~ A person must have official documentation confirming the need of a service dog. This can be given by a doctor or a patient's therapist. ~ Every dog will be matched with their “partner” as best as possible. Because we wish to ensure a great bond between patient and dog, a person may try out a few of our graduates to see which one works best for the person. ~Only one dog may be used per person at one time. ~ If a person no longer has need for/does not want their service dog for any reason, they must return them to the center for them to help someone else. ~ If a person wishes to adopt their service dog, they must talk with one of the trainers and fill out the paperwork to make sure that the patient now has full ownership of their service dog.
Joining Form
Screen Name: Character Name: Gender: Age: Staff, Volunteer, or Patient?: Description: Personality: If Staff/Volunteer, which position?: If Patient, what disability?: Other:
I would like to say thank you to *Nightwhisper for help in creating this roleplay.
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Post by Winona on Sept 2, 2016 14:17:39 GMT -5
Staff
Screen Name: Blaze Character Name: Kat Evermore Gender: female Age: 26 Staff, Volunteer, or Patient?: Staff Description: Kat is a rather short girl, standing at around 5'2" with a thin, petite frame. She has long, dark brown hair that is usually kept down when she arrives in the mornings, but that is usually put up into a ponytail within a few hours. Her dark brown eyes are slightly hidden behind her glasses. Typically, she arrives at work with a T-shirt and a hoodie along with jeans and Converse sneakers. Personality: Kat is a little shy, which makes her introducing herself to new patients a little bit of an awkward procedure. However, once she manages to warm up to someone, she becomes bubbly, happy, and won't shut up. The property that Furry Company sits on once belonged to her grandma, who raised a wide array of farm animals, but then when her grandma passed it onto her mother, it became a dog kennel. As such, Kat had been raised loving all animals, particularly dogs, and has quite a wide array of them at her house. If Staff/Volunteer, which position?: Manager If Patient, what disability?: N/A Other: Kat is typically accompanied by her Plott/Labrador mix, Bandit, to work every day. Screen Name: *Nighwhisper
Character Name: Matthew Johnson Gender: Male Age: 27 Staff, Volunteer, or Patient?: Staff Description: Matthew stands round 5'10", and has a fairly muscular frame. His black hair is shaggy and often falls into his strikingly light blue eyes. The man's sense of style pretty much doesn't exist. He usually shows up to work in some random, faded t-shirt and some colored jeans that doesn't match the shirt he's wearing. This is mostly because he always wakes up late and has to rush to get ready in the morning. Personality: Despite always being in a rush to get to work, Matthew is dedicated to his job. He loves all the dogs in the center, and does his best to train and care for them. He also has made friends with all of his co-workers. He was just that kind of person. He was an easy going man, one who always tried to lighten a situation with humor whenever necessary. If Staff/Volunteer, which position?: Staff, Dog trainer. If Patient, what disability?: Other: He has adopted two of the retired service dogs, and brings them to work with him. One is a German Shepard named Vincent, and a Labrador named Connie.
Screen Name: Aviva Character Name: Skylar Brennan Gender: Female Age: 24 Staff, Volunteer, or Patient?: Staff, formerly a patient Description: Skylar is a tall and slender young woman. She has long fiery auburn hair that comes to about the middle of her back and light sea foam green eyes. She has a sprinkling of freckles across her nose and cheeks. Personality: Skylar is an open and friendly young woman. She loves animals with a passion as well as helping people, which is part of why she chose to work for Furry Company. She can get pretty stubborn, however, and has a tendency to snap at anyone who suggests that she can't do something because she's "disabled." If Staff/Volunteer, which position?: Staff, Dog Trainer If Patient, what disability?: Seizures Other: Skylar got her own service dog, a German shepherd/ husky mix named Cooper, a few years ago from Furry Company after she started having seizures following a car accident. Cooper is usually at least in the same room as her at all times-- the only time he leaves her side is if she's having a seizure and he goes to get help.
Volunteers Screen Name: *Nightwhisper Character Name: Destiny Parker Gender: Female Age: 18 Staff, Volunteer, or Patient?: Volunteer Description: Destiny is a simple girl. She stands 5'5" with a slight build. Her mousy brown hair reaches her shoulders, and her eyes were a dark blue grey. She has a round face that gives her a childish appearance. She normally wears a variety of plaid shirts and t-shirts, along with jeans. Personality: Destiny is a shy girl who usually keeps to herself unless you speak to her first. She tends to stay silent unless she needs to speak. If no one is talking with her, then she won't go bother anyone, even if she just wanted to have a conversation with someone. But, once you get her talking, she'll have no problem coming to you again to talk. She's a kind, open-minded girl who is a bit of a perfectionist. If Staff/Volunteer, which position?: Volenteer, office help. If Patient, what disability?: Other: None.
Screen Name: Lychee Character Name: Enthan Fawcett Gender: Male Age: 18 Staff, Volunteer, or Patient?: Volunteer Description: Ethan is a strong-built boy that stands at 5,9. He has a tan to his skin and hazel eyes that shine green sometimes. Ethan has short black hair that is always very neat (as in, not messy) and slightly thick eyebrows as well. He also has a minimalist tattoo of an anchor on his shoulder. Personality: The boy is kind of shy and doesn't usually talk or open up to people at all. Even though it might be hard to talk to him, if you give him a chance (and if you have lots of patience and isn't affected by awkwardness) he can be really nice to hangout with. Ethan cares a lot about others, specially his few friends. If Staff/Volunteer, which position?: Volunteer dog training If Patient, what disability?: N/A Other: -
Patients Screen Name: SweetClover1 Character Name: Emily "Emmi" Smith Gender: Girl Age: 18 Staff, Volunteer, or Patient?: Patient Description: Slight girl with palish skin. Along the bridge of her nose and on her cheeks she has freckles and has blue eyes. She has curly black hair that is currently died at the tips with lavender. She is about 5'2 in height but slouches a lot so she looks smaller than what she really is. She has a small scar running from the side of her forehead to her left ear, from a car crash she was in a year ago. She has other scars that are hidden on her legs and torso from the same crash. Personality: Usually sweet tempered, always ready for a joke. She tries to avoid talking about her disability seriously (She will make jokes about it), and gets upset usually when someone brings it up. She tries to have a good sense of humor, but sometimes her own humor isn't that funny to others- its rather dark sometimes If Staff/Volunteer, which position?: N/A If Patient, what disability?: Blind Other:
Screen Name: CreamCrow Character Name: Abby Roberts Gender: Female Age: 15 Staff, Volunteer, or Patient?: Patient Description: Abby has long hair that curls at the tips- along with it being generally dark brown in color, she yet it to fade into a lighter brownish-gold color. She has pretty warm, brown eyes that melt into a golden-chocolate when hitting the sun. She has visible bite scars around her hands, and tries to wear a glove on them to protect the hand itself from her biting. Occasionally, there is bruising on her lips from herself biting too hard. She can either be seen wearing very warm clothes such as hoodies and sweatpants, or clothes for a cooler weather- i.e tank tops and shorts. It doesn't help as she can't generally tell if it is too warm for her body or too cold. Personality: A fun girl to be around, always trying to make a joke for everyone to laugh about. Despite trying to be social, she resorts to biting at her hand when put into an awkward situation or something embarrassing. It happens often to her and she doesn't exactly notice. The girl does do her best to stay very cheerful, to keep others around her happy. She tries- she doesn't always have a good control on her emotions and can get peeved at the smallest of things, she hates it. Not to mention- at other times she is bouncing around the walls from unknown energy. If Staff/Volunteer, which position?: NOPE. If Patient, what disability?: C.I.P.A. (The inability to feel pain. Doesn't feel heat/cold and they get urges to bite their lips or hands until they bleed. Has a lot of side-effects on the person too such as getting high fevers and seizures.) Other:
Screen Name: Gemflower Character Name: Andrew Scott Gender: male Age: 18 Staff, Volunteer, or Patient?: patient Description: Andrew is a pretty lovable guy. He’s difficult not to like, from his shy yet endearing personality, and his admittedly cute looks. His longish, lighter blond strands of hair flops into his eyes. His light, platinum blonde hair color captures the color of his bright blue eyes perfectly. Andrew’s skin is fair tanned. Andrew has quite long legs, and is leaner than muscular, with a height that stands at 6’. Personality: Andrew is more gentle and often shy, especially around girls. He likes to flatter people, just out of kindness, and will smile easily, whether it’s out of nervousness or a real genuine smile. If Staff/Volunteer, which position?: If Patient, what disability?: Has prosthetic leg, but uses wheel chair most of the time. Other:
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*Nightwhisper
"And guilty I may be, but don't give up on me... We will still be thick as thieves."
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Post by *Nightwhisper on Sept 2, 2016 19:23:44 GMT -5
Screen Name: *Nighwhisper
Character Name: Matthew Johnson
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Staff, Volunteer, or Patient?: Staff
Description: Matthew stands round 5'10", and has a fairly muscular frame. His black hair is shaggy and often falls into his strikingly light blue eyes. The man's sense of style pretty much doesn't exist. He usually shows up to work in some random, faded t-shirt and some colored jeans that doesn't match the shirt he's wearing. This is mostly because he always wakes up late and has to rush to get ready in the morning.
Personality: Despite always being in a rush to get to work, Matthew is dedicated to his job. He loves all the dogs in the center, and does his best to train and care for them. He also has made friends with all of his co-workers. He was just that kind of person. He was an easy going man, one who always tried to lighten a situation with humor whenever necessary.
If Staff/Volunteer, which position?: Staff, Dog trainer.
If Patient, what disability?:
Other: He has adopted two of the retired service dogs, and brings them to work with him. One is a German Shepard named Vincent, and a Labrador named Connie.
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Post by Winona on Sept 3, 2016 12:58:48 GMT -5
((It's fine. XD I get it. I'll make my other dude later. Right now, I am at work. Four more hours and then freedom!))
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Post by Winona on Sept 3, 2016 13:00:02 GMT -5
((I'll add him when I can get home on my computer. Want to start rping?))
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Post by Winona on Sept 3, 2016 13:09:27 GMT -5
((Alright, that's fine. I hope you have fun! I only have about twenty minutes before my break is up.))
Kat had arrived at the center a little bit early. She had some paperwork to do that she had wanted to get done quickly, plus she'd had trouble sleeping. She was now seated in her office, going over some paperwork some patients had sent in. Bandit laid on his bed in the corner, snoring.
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Post by Winona on Sept 3, 2016 17:47:30 GMT -5
Kat looked up from her paperwork long enough to greet him. When she saw his clothes, however, she laughed. "Good morning," she greeted and nodded towards his shirt. "Good band choice." She said as she leaned back in her chair stretching. "Late again, huh?" Kat asked as she glanced towards a clock hanging on the wall of her office. During all of the commotion, Bandit had woken up. He was getting older, so he sat up to look at Matthew and his dogs but made no move to get up the rest of the way.
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Post by Winona on Sept 4, 2016 18:11:43 GMT -5
((Alright. I finally added him. XD))
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sweetclover1
Hi loves, like my posts so I'll reply faster <3
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Post by sweetclover1 on Sept 4, 2016 18:21:07 GMT -5
Screen Name: SweetClover1 Character Name: Emily "Emmi" Smith Gender: Girl Age: 18 Staff, Volunteer, or Patient?: Patient Description: Slight girl with palish skin. Along the bridge of her nose and on her cheeks she has freckles and has blue eyes. She has curly black hair that is currently died at the tips with lavender. She is about 5'2 in height but slouches a lot so she looks smaller than what she really is. She has a small scar running from the side of her forehead to her left ear, from a car crash she was in a year ago. She has other scars that are hidden on her legs and torso from the same crash. Personality: Usually sweet tempered, always ready for a joke. She tries to avoid talking about her disability seriously (She will make jokes about it), and gets upset usually when someone brings it up. She tries to have a good sense of humor, but sometimes her own humor isn't that funny to others- its rather dark sometimes If Staff/Volunteer, which position?: N/A If Patient, what disability?: Blind Other:
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Post by Winona on Sept 4, 2016 18:24:20 GMT -5
((Adding now! ^.^ Thanks for joining.))
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Post by Winona on Sept 4, 2016 18:36:52 GMT -5
((They will be staying on site for a few weeks or until the trainers decide that he dog and patient work well together. Then they will be sent home, but keep in contact with the center for approximately six months, in which case trainers will periodically go out and visit them to see how the new duo is doing. ^.^))
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Post by Winona on Sept 4, 2016 19:06:50 GMT -5
((Of course! Night won't be back until tomorrow, but I'm sure I can somehow get Kat free. XD))
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sweetclover1
Hi loves, like my posts so I'll reply faster <3
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Post by sweetclover1 on Sept 4, 2016 19:12:47 GMT -5
(XD lol ok :3 )
Emmi had been sitting in a chair, rather awkwardly, she might add, for awhile now. Her uncle, her current "guardian", had dropped her off with a gruff "good luck" before leaving her in this room. Alone. With absolutely nothing to do. The teenager anxiously ran her hand up and down the thick canvas bag she had packed her clothing in for the duration of this trip, unsure what was going to happen. What if they decide this paper was forged? I wouldnt be able to tell the difference between legitimate paperwork and forged stuff. Oh God, what there isn't a match for me? She thought anxiously, setting the bag down so she wouldnt fiddle. Readjusting her glasses, she was beginning to wonder if no one was here today. That'd be just my luck, she thought bitterly, feeling for the paper she had set down earlier. Once the girl found it she straightened her back, trying to look as confident as she could.
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Post by Winona on Sept 4, 2016 19:19:34 GMT -5
Kat looked at the clock once more and realized that she was late for a meeting. "Oh. I gotta go. See you around later." She said to Matthew as she gathered up some stuff that she needed and slipped out of the room with Bandit following after her. They walked into the common room. It wasn't hard to figure out who Emily was -- she was the only one scheduled at this time. "Hello, are you..." she looked down at her paperwork to make sure she had the right name, "Emily Smith?" She asked. Bandit had started over to the girl and now touched his nose against her knee to say hello.
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sweetclover1
Hi loves, like my posts so I'll reply faster <3
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Post by sweetclover1 on Sept 4, 2016 19:25:01 GMT -5
"Oh-uh, um, Y-yes, thats me," She said quickly, flinching at the cold touch of Bandits nose. She had heard the dog come up to her, just didn't expect the nose to be so... wet. She hesitated for a moment, suddenly shy, something completely out of character for the girl, unsure if she could touch the dog or not.
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Post by Winona on Sept 4, 2016 19:39:43 GMT -5
"Great!" Kat said pleasantly. "Then if you'll follow me, we will head back to an office, learn about your needs a bit more and decide which dog will fit you best." She realized that Emily wouldn't be able to see where they were going, so she added "Bandit is tall enough that you can rest your hand on his back and he'll keep you from running into anything."
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Post by Winona on Sept 4, 2016 21:49:34 GMT -5
((Sorry for the poof. Dx))
"I am doing quite well today, actually." Kat replied in an upbeat tone. "How are you?" She asked as they walked into one of the rooms -- not her office, but one that had two couches for simple interviews. She gently took Emily's arm to help her find one of the couches before she sat down on the other. Bandit chose to lay down on the ground between them. "And how are you today?"
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sweetclover1
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Post by sweetclover1 on Sept 4, 2016 22:06:16 GMT -5
"Thank you," She murmured, running her hands over the slightly rough surface of the couch. "I, I'm good today. A little nervous. Oh, do you need anything? I think my uncle packed my ID, and some other paperwork in my bag. She felt around for her bags, which was sitting on her lap, zipper. She wanted to make sure everything went smoothly, and was honestly scared she'd be sent away. (Its all good XD Im working on homework anyways)
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Post by Winona on Sept 4, 2016 22:15:58 GMT -5
"Oh, no. That's fine. I don't need any of that right now." Kat replied cheerfully. She could tell that Emily was nervous, but that was a normal reaction for someone. She just kept her upbeat, friendly mood going to try and smooth things out. "So you are in need of a seeing eye dog. Do you have any preference on breed? We mainly have Labradors, German Shepherds, and Golden Retrievers. But we do do some special case rescues and different breeds." Of course, that was always more difficult and rarely were the special cases ready when people came in.
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sweetclover1
Hi loves, like my posts so I'll reply faster <3
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Post by sweetclover1 on Sept 4, 2016 22:24:16 GMT -5
She shook her head, not wanting to admit she was hopelessly lost when it came to dog breeds. Her parents had always been cat people, so, although she had seen those breeds at friends houses and around town, she didn't know much about them. She did some research, or what she could, before she came to this place. "I don't have any preference, really," she told Kate honestly.
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Post by Winona on Sept 4, 2016 22:29:44 GMT -5
Kat laughed. "Well that just makes this easier. I only ask because there's a lot of people that grew up with a family dog that was one breed or another, so they don't want something else." She smiled, although she realized Emily wouldn't know that, and looked down at her clipboard. "Tell me a bit about yourself so we can match you with the right dog. Introvert or extrovert? Exercise freak or couch potato? That kind of stuff."
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sweetclover1
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Post by sweetclover1 on Sept 4, 2016 22:43:22 GMT -5
(couch potato that never leaves the confines of room jk jk)
"Um... Well, I like being outside, its been hard, lately, but I used to go out a lot, hike, go downtown and meet new people... I liked to volunteer, too. But I like being inside to, like on the weekends. I think I'm a... Ambivert with a little bit more on the Extravert side. I definitely can't stay in the same place for more than like a half an hour." She explained, her hand still running up and down the couch. "I'm also a night owl, I don't know if that helps. "
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Post by Winona on Sept 4, 2016 23:00:24 GMT -5
((Oh... that's what I am. XD I go as far as he living room typically. What is an "outdoors?"))
"This is perfect." Kat was grinning as she wrote down notes. "Most of our dogs have so much energy that trying to get them to calm down with someone lazier is just difficult. Luckily, we have plenty of dogs to match you up with." She wrote down the night owl part and added "Even some that stay up and play all night."
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