i�*m joined by chloe fuller, she�*s a tv pet expert. but you have very special dogs, don�*t you?ut different types of assistance dogs. so what do your spaniels do for you? oh, all sorts, so they get me undressed. they put the clothes in and out of the washing machine. they can get me my shopping, they can pick up anything i drop, tidy up the house. there are all sorts of different things that dogs can do. and like you say, i think we often are aware of guide dogs, maybe even hearing dogs, but perhaps not about the rarer types of assistance dogs like mine. before you had these dogs, did you have any idea that dogs could do what they do for you? no, actually, iwas a very stubborn and independent teenager. and when i became disabled at 13, i didn�*t know how to adapt to a life with a disability. and i got a dog, mr ted here, who was a sock thief. and when i saw him running off with socks, i thought, hang on a minute, i think there�*s something in this. and so i put the sock on my foot and suddenly, because he wanted to steal it, he pulled it off my foot and i was like, voila, my dog