Causes
The Hearing Campaign
Dyranomics has partnered with The FETCHLAB™ at the University of Cincinnati to develop a low cost hearing device fitted just for your dog and we aim to raise $500,000 to make this happen with a Give $5 For Fido campaign.
University of Cincinnati FETCHLAB is an internationally renowned animal hearing and bioacoustics laboratory. They conduct hearing screening and full audiological assessment and imaging for dogs. The FETCHLAB is the first and only hearing clinic for animals in the United States capable of running full audiological diagnostic testing and analyses. They see dogs from all over the world.
M. Scheifele PhD, LCDR USN (Ret.) Professor, is the Executive Director of the overall FETCHLAB™USA and Director of UC FETCHLAB.
Dr. Scheifele is a Navy Vietnam era veteran; submarine sonar and weapons officer/Navy Diver and Naval Oceanographer. He directed the Navy Marine Mammal Technology Program at NUSC, specializing in marine mammal bioacoustics research and was Head Trainer at Mystic Aquarium. He was awarded the Order of the Decibel and a presidential citation by President George Bush Sr. for his pioneering work with marine mammal bioacoustics. He trained and handled narcotics and bomb dogs for the U.S. Coast Guard.
Presently, he directs UC FETCHLAB world-renowned for investigating animal audiology, vocal mechanisms and bioacoustics and conducting animal audiology. He is also serves as the U.S. Army Special Forces and DOD subject matter expert (SME) on tactical military working dog audiology and Canine PTSD. He is Associate Professor of animal bioacoustics and human neuroaudiology in the College of Allied Health Sciences, and Brain, Mind and Behavior in the School Of Medicine.
The Fetchlab
University of Cincinnati FETCHLAB is an internationally renowned animal hearing and bioacoustics laboratory. We conduct hearing screening and full audiological assessment and imaging for dogs as well as kennel and zoo/aquaria exhibit/life support system noise mapping, mitigation, and monitoring. The FETCHLAB is the first and only hearing clinic for animals in the United States capable of running full audiological diagnostic testing an analysis. We see dogs
from all over the world.
FETCHLAB supports the Department of Defense with clinical and research topics on working dog post-traumatic stress disorder and audiological disorders. Additionally, we support the Georgia Aquarium, Mystic Aquarium, Newport Aquarium, and Indianapolis Zoo regarding auditory, sound production and noise issues with regard to their animals under professional care.
We work closely with zoo keepers, trainers, and zoo veterinary staff as well as veterinarians in the tri-state area to support them with animal audiology as a potential health care and assessment sub-specialty (animal audiology). We are currently the only place in the world where an audiologist may receive a graduate certification as an animal audiologist and where canines are fitted for canine hearing aids and hearing protection devices.
FETCHLAB consists of three sites at three universities, each with its own Director, that all function under the executive FETCHLAB site and Founder, Principal Investigator and executive Director M. “Skip” Scheifele at the University of Cincinnati. The three FETCHLAB sites are: FETCHLAB UNC at the University of Northern Colorado under the direction of Dr. Katie Bright with Co-Directors Dr. Tina M. Stoody and Dr. Jennifer E. Weber; FETCHLAB Akron under the direction of Dr. Kristine E. Sonstrom Malinowski; and UC FETCHLAB under the direction of M. “Skip” Scheifele with Co-director, Dr. Laura W. Kretschmer.
A Collar Purchase with a Much Greater Purpose
A Collar Purchase with a Much Greater Purpose
If you are, or plan to become a dog owner, then at some point you will be faced with various ailments as your dog ages. Ensuring healthy aging in our companion animals is not only an obligation as a pet owner, but it can also be a huge source of stress for the caretaker. Because there are few economical solutions to common ailments frequently present in our aging dogs, many animals are prematurely euthanized
Enter the concept of CŌ. CŌ Collars is appropriately named because of its CŌllaborative work with the medical field to achieve economical remedies for our canine companions. Through a series of individual campaigns within Dyranomic, Inc. (a 501c3), CŌ will raise the funds necessary, initially through collar sales, with 100% of net profits donated to Dyranomics, Inc. in order to fund the appropriate research and development. Our first endeavor is for Dyranomics, Inc. to raise $500K, via collar sales and other donations, for the development of an economical and dyronomic hearing device. Dyronomic is defined as something that is unobtrusive to the animal’s shape, form, function, and/or size. Once developed, 100% of all net profits associated with the sale of the hearing devices to civilian dogs will be contributed to the subsequent campaign (i.e. an economical solution for canine cataracts). This funding process will continue into all subsequent campaigns until which time we have addressed and developed economical solutions to the most common of canine maladies, such that all income levels will be afforded the ability to provide the needed care for their canine companions so as to ease and extend the quality of the dog’s remaining life.
CŌ takes advantage of the prerequisite for a dog to wear a collar for purposes of containment, identification, and county licensing requirements. No longer does a dog collar have to be a dead-end purchase because CŌ now provides the dog owner with the opportunity to make a collar purchase with a much greater purpose. Without exception, and with every purchase made, CŌ will donate 100% of all net profits to the current campaign in Dyranomics, Inc. As such, your annual purchase of a dog collar can now be a means to an end to end the maladies of our own dogs. Because CŌ currently has no overhead, and has been funded entirely with out-of-pocket funds, the maximum contribution can be made to the initial Hearing Campaign in collaboration with THE FETCHLAB at the University of Cincinnati.
The resulting hearing device will be called the Molly Ear in loving memory of the amazing dog who lead to the creation of CŌ.
Future campaigns on the horizon
- Blindness
- Kidney Disease
- INCONTINENCE
- ARTHRITIS
- Dementia
- GUM DISEASE
- DIABETES
- Epilepsy
- HEART DISEASE
