We provide solutions
for people with disabilities
to change their life one
service dog at a time.
Our Top 3 Programs
Our family has been training service dogs for over 23 years for a variety of disabilities. We have created & compiled the best training information into several unique and effective programs to help those with disabilities gain more independence.
Primary Program Benefits
Fully Trained Service Dog Program
We fully train, place, & certify service dogs that are custom trained to your specific disability.
Our Specialties include:
*Autism Service Dogs
*Epilepsy Service Dogs
*Medical Alert Service Dogs
*Hearing Dogs
*Guide Dogs
*PTSD Service Dogs
Quick Placement Timeframe
With our industry leading training programs and early investment of time and work, we are able to custom train a service dog quickly.
Typically we can custom train a service dog for any major disability in approximately 4 to 6 months.
Dual-Trained Service Dogs may take longer depending on the complexity of tasks.
We travel to you...
For the best client experience our Service Dog Trainers will travel to you to do the initial home interview as well the final boot camp training in your own home, school, work, and community environments.
This solves many of the transition issues that plague other organizations and allows us to keep costs lower to you.
Types of Service Dogs
We training a variety of service dog for common disabilities and disability categories. If your disability is not listed, then contact one of our Service Dog Specialists to see how we can help you.
Autism Service Dogs
These dogs are training to assist with challenges many face on the Autism Spectrum or other similar neurological or developmental disabilities such as
* Aspergers Syndrome
* Fragile X,
* Rett Syndrome,
* Downs Syndrome.
Medical Alert Service Dogs
These dogs are specially trained to assist recognizing and responding to a medical event. Conditions that a Medical Alert Dog can be trained include:
* Epilepsy / Seizures
* P.O.T.S. / Syncope
* Diabetic Alert
* Food / Latex Allergies
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
This program prepares dogs to assist clients overcoming the daily challenges of PTSD. We work with clients that are both military and non-military.
Mobility Assistance
Mobility Assistance dogs can be trained to a variety of tasks that can help clients from those who have balance issues to clients who are quadriplegic.
Guide Dogs
These dogs are specially trained to assist those with vision impairments navigate their environment. we work with partial or complete vision loss.
Hearing Dogs
Our hearing dogs are trained to assist clients with little or no hearing to sounds in their environment or to conversations.
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Secondary Benefits
There are tons of secondary benefits of getting a fully trained service dog.
Our service dog training programs is not limited on age. We have helped children as young as 18 months old to adult clients that are 80+ years old.
We find that getting a service dog as soon as possible will help with the child's development and ability to overcome the challenges of their disability easier. Any clients who are under 5 years of age or over 75 years of age will have to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis and largely dependent on their disability as well as their family support structure.
Since we travel to our clients, and place on a 1-on-1 basis we can place dogs throughout most of the world.
We have service dogs working in the US, Canada, UK, Europe, South America, and Australia at the moment.
Depending on the country, there are certain time frame and procedures that have to be completed prior to the home interview or boot camp process. Please consult one of our Service Dog Specialists to get more information for International Placements.
We work with each of our Clients on a 1-on-1 basis throughout the Home Interview and Boot Camp Placement process. This allows us to focus directly on your needs and assisting you through this complex process.
Getting a service dog is a process that is costly in time, effort, and money. You should feel confident the dog you are receiving from us is healthy to do the work required.
The overview of the medical testing we do includes:
- Structural Evaluation- which includes X-Rays of the
- Hips
- Spine (most of it)
- Knees
- Elbows
- Shoulders
- Wrists
- Chest
- Heart
- Kinesthetic Checks-Evaluating the movement, gait, and range of motion of the dog.
- Vision Checks- Evaluations of the lens & structure of the eyes.
- Skin Checks- Looking for any signs of skin issues such as mange, dry skin, hot spots, or skin allergies.
- Blood Analysis- CBC Chem 11 blood panel evaluating over 30 factors of internal organ function and health.
- Fecal Checks- Checking for internal parasites such as worms or coccidia.
- Heartworm Check- Blood test specifically looking for signs of deadly heartworm disease.
- Canine Dental Exam & Cleaning - (If necessary)
- Spay / Neuter- Prior to placement all service dogs are either spayed or neutered.
Although we have an extensive online training library, and a ton of in person training, there are times after the 10 day boot camp that you may come across a problem with your service dog. More than likely something will happen that you will need help with overcoming, they are a living being and not a robot.
With each placement, we include 2 months of support from our training staff to help guide you to overcome the challenge. We check in with you on a regular basis as well as providing a Private Facebook group for placements so you can get help quickly.
We want you to be a successful team, so we include the support that you'll need to get there with.
We can assist you in the integration process of the service dog in school or work environments during or after the placement process.
Our program was one of the first Service Dog programs to assist clients going into the school environment.
This is an optional service usually paid for by the school or company. Please consult our Service Dog Specialist for your particular situation.
We believe knowing how your service dog learns and is training is critical for our clients to be able to adapt their service dog for new challenges or situations.
To make this process easy for our clients is that they have access to an extensive online training course and library of videos. These videos go over:
- How their service dog has been trained
- How to adapt that training if their disability changes.
- Common Healthcare & grooming information.
- Command Demonstrations
- And disability specific task information.
