CANINE CARE ASSISTANCE DOGS

CANINE CARE ASSISTANCE DOGS

“CARING about tomorrow’s miracles by providing highly trained assistance dogs today”.

Well-trained service dogs make a huge improvement in the quality of the lives of those they serve.

Canine Care Assistance Dogs believes that by training a dog to perform special skills to assist a human partner it will provide not just freedom but also give therapeutic care and enrich the life of the human partner.

We specialize not only in Medical Response trained Service dogs, but also in placements with people who have been turned away by many other agencies.

We accept children of any age and have various programs for the service dog-child partnership.

WHAT ARE ASSISTANCE DOGS?

Assistance dogs are trained to perform tasks that assist a life-functioning need.

Guiding, signaling, performing physical tasks, and providing therapeutic companionship, are typically some of those tasks.

An individual need not have a visible or discernible disability in order to be partnered and benefit from the use of an Assistance Dog.

Assistance Dog definition will vary from state to state. Assistance Dogs are defined as Service Dogs in the Federal American’s with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Otter, a medical Alert dog.

TYPES OF ASSISTANCE DOGS

Guide Dog Category -              a dog, that has been or is being specially trained to lead in harness and serves as aide to the mobility of a particular blind or visually impaired person. A guide dog will usually lead in harness.

Hearing Dog Category -           a dog, which has been or is being specially trained to alert a particular deaf or hard of hearing person to certain sounds.

Service Dog Category -          a dog, which has been or is being specially trained to the individual requirements of a physically disabled person.

Alert/Response Dog Category Sometimes referred to as "seizure response dogs", or "seizure alert dogs", involves the training of dogs to work with individuals who have epilepsy or any of a variety of other seizure disorders. Alert/Response Dogs are also trained to work with individuals who have psychological/psychiatric disabilities.

Therapeutic Companion Dog Category - a dog that will provide companionship to therapeutically benefit the life of a person with a disability. These dogs usually have a basic skill level and are not utilized in public.

Anna and Layla, an amazing team in training!

“CARING about tomorrow’s miracles by providing highly trained assistance dogs today”.

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