One hundred-- number, SN total number 100 here.
Yes that's right--
You're tied with number 112
Yeah with Scotty, yup.
First... first staff to need to win...
first dog to win Eukanuba, National Dog Show and the Westminster
That's right, wow.
That's incredible, that's exactly accurate.
What color do they come in, do you know?
Uh... black, wheat and brindle, in some places grizzle, oh and steel and iron grey in the UK.
Steel iron grey, I've never...
Steel grey and iron grey, I said
That's right, they just added that back to our standard.
That's amazing
I've never met anyone who knows so much about dogs.
And people who have been in dogs all their life don't know as much as he does. It's amazing.
- So how was school today?
Cory?
- and at the end of the day when I refused to study, you know what they did?
- What? - They pinned me to the floor!
- Why do you think-- - No! I was just saying no and they just... pinned me!
- That must have been-- - That just made it worse!
- I know. - You don't know what makes it worse.
Why doesn't anybody-- why does nobody like me?
- You wrote that? Today in speech? - Yeah, I started-- then I started crying
And they don't even know I had feelings. - Okay, I can understand that.
For a child with Asperger's it's so hard to being so close to being like everybody else
and people expecting you to be like everybody else
but to have these little different ways of being, or hypersensitivities or anxieties
and that makes it hard to be in the world.
Well I think one of the major problems in Asperger's disorder is communication
Even though they have normal verbal abilities, they often don't
read social cues well and they don't
read nonverbal language you know body language, and up to 80% of our
communication is nonverbal so this puts children with Asperger's disorder at a
at a disadvantage and that can impact friendships that you can impact the
ability to connect with the outside world.
[Children laughing and cheering]
- Give me eleven turtles! Eleven turtles...
- They often are drawn to animals because animals are very accepting,
they are nonconditional,
You don't have to read nonverbal language with them.
- As he got older it went to dinosaurs or it went to these exotic animals that people
have never heard of and you know he'll he'd run up and approach people and say
did you know that the blah blah blah sloth has the longest toes of any sloth in the world
and people were like "wow really?" and they you know it's coming out of left field.
We tried to explain to him that you know you can't just run up to
people and expect them to play and he goes "How do I do it?"
- You guys and you guys to go in there too, and I'm gonna go come in there...
- Certain likes-- a few cars, like several Mastodons, those hairy yellow things.
- That's what you're gonna do in the New York?
- And listen on the sidewalk there are gonna be all these Coelophysis dinosaurs
- Coeloph--!? Can you draw me a Coelophysis dinosaur?
- They're kinda big, it's one of the earlier dinosaurs
- Is it a giant dinosaur?
It's uh, it's only 10 feet long
Only?
- Hollow bone. - Hollow bones?
- Yeah... it was a fast running dinosaur.
- Cory is extremely advanced drawing-wise. He's a 6th grader and the work
that he produces is beyond many of my professors at a well esteem college university.
- You know Cory is... he's a brilliant kid and you know I think it's
the nature of how his brain is made up but he truly has a photographic memory
he can look at a picture draw it once and it's it's it's frozen in his his memories.
- It's interesting if you look at his drawings and the angles and the eyes
and all of that, it's like he's he's seeing something that the typical person
doesn't see.
He's explained his brain to me at times as, that it's always on play.
he said my mind is like a DVR and it's really hard for me to stop,
to hit the stop button.
It just goes on and on... forever.
Every breed.
I saw such a change in him last year when he became interested in dogs.
- This is kind of a connection that that we have with Cory and it hasn't been until
he developed this obsession with dogs and he started learning about the breeds
and then it became can we go to Petsmart and see dogs?
Can we go to the dog park to see dogs?
You have to say it politely.
Say 'excuse me'
- It's Pomeranian - Oh it is, how cute!
From the German province of Pomerania.
They are? Yeah!
That doesn't even sound like a real place that sounds like you made it up.
Well it makes sense with like-
Like where are the Labradors from, Labradoria?
No they're like actually from Newfoundland, they're named from the Labrador sea that they worked in.
Wow I didn't know that-- - They couldn't name their dog Newfoundland, that name was already taken.
- Ohhh, that's a cute little dog!
- And the Weimaraner was named for the Wiemar Republic
- Oh my gosh Cor. - Anatolian Shepherd from Anatolia or modern Turkey.
The Rhodesian Ridgeback, Rhodesia which is now modern Zimbabwe
- What do you think it is?
Aside from the knowledge that he's gained on dogs, and he's been able to
retain almost every fact about every breed, the connection that he's been able
to make with people who have dogs is invaluable for a kid like him.
I don't know what to expect really I don't know if it's going to be
overwhelming for him my hope is that he doesn't walk around there kind of
guarded and holding his ears because of the noise because I imagine that it's
going to just naturally be loud
he hears things louder and scratchier and more irritating it's almost like he
has a megaphone and so things are coming in like that he also doesn't have a
screening to block out in the foreground and background noise so if there's a lot
of background noise he doesn't have that screen so it's coming in just as loud as
the conversation he might be having with you at a table.
He hears the world louder and more intense
What kind of dog is this, a colored bull terrier?
- Yes that's a colorful terrier, correct.
- Reminds me of Rufus.
- That's his grandson, Jefferson
- Rufus, did you hear about him? He passed.
- We owned Rufus.
[Mother] Oh you're the owners of Rufus?
- Yeah I saw you on Dogs 101!
- Yep.
[Mother] You saw them on Dogs 101?
Yeah! I think I did!!
- Wooow! - Rufus' son.
You know Rufus was immortalized on one of my books
- Which one? - Smaller book
[Mother] Oh my gosh!
- I've never met a colored bull terrier.
You can pet him if you like!
No, You can pet Jefferson. - Oh you confused me.
Great Dane! A Harlequin! Isn't that great?
Look, Burmese, two Chesapeake Bay Retriever, and a Komondor!
English shepards galore!
Oh oh! On and on, the list keeps going!
This is the best- this is my, the best day ever!
We just saw an unrecognized breed here!
Eli passed away.
- But this is his son! - Oh really?
- This is one of Eli's boys. That's one of his sons.
His daughter was first in the good pile in 2010 for the herding group.
surprisingly unlike a German Shepherd!
Oh my god [laughs]
- He knows a lot - I'll say!
You don't remember those pictures back there, that's Eli
Yeah I remember- I saw a nonrecogzined breed
- He touched so many people it was unbelievable, I never realized.
- That's incredible. - Example
- Exactly!
- I mean I have chills!
- Hey I got a question for you. - What?
- What group are they in?
- Bichon? Non sporting.
- Okay, and what group are they in in all the other countries?
- I think toy.
- Very good.
- I thought I had him topped.
I thought I had him topped.
- Going to see dogs has become our sport and our passion.
- Dogs have definitely become a way for Cory to communicate with the world.
- I think people enjoy dogs so much is because they feel like they have a special
connection that they're almost human and they can feel what you're feeling.
When you've had a rough day they're happy to see you and they don't
care what's happened or what you say to them they love you for who you are.
We love these dogs, I would personally rather be around them than around most human beings here.
Propbably put hundred of hundreds of thousands of miles on the road with them I mean he
truly was your best friend. He would have been 13 and he was a great dog
honestly, a great dog.
You know, I think I connect with them
on like an athletic level ya know? Cause I'm into sports I'm
always moving and I'm always a very outdoorsy and they're the same way and
sometimes you'll get as crazy people say look like a dog knows when you're upset
dog knows-- those people are nuts, I happen to be one of them
You know like even when we're at home when you get sick they know it faster
than you know I think they read the world differently than we do
These children will use their particular narrow interest to try to reduce their
anxiety if they can focus just on dogs then the world will kind of calm down
and go away and they can screen out the problems that are creating this
heightened sense of anxiety
[Cheering]
I think Cory's very self-aware... and we're driving home and he said oh I-
I just wish I could make all this autism stuff just go away
and I I remember I had to pull over to the side of the road because it just
took me kind of off-guard I've never heard him say anything like that before
and I put the car in park and he turned around and I looked at him and I said I
don't want to hear you ever say that because you know something you wouldn't
be the child that you are you wouldn't be this person this amazing person if
you didn't have autism you wouldn't have this great interest in animals and in
dogs and this ability to draw, if you were just like a typical kid I don't
know that you would have all these gifts, don't ever think that I don't want you
to never have this part of you this is who you are.