Service Dogs Medical Alert Dogs
Our volunteers are the heartbeat of our service dog program. We are family, brought together by our love for dogs, our willingness to give 100% to help these puppies grow into solid dogs that will help improve the quality of life for both children and adults.
This is a lifelong commitment. We care about our recipients as much as we care about our dogs.
Our puppy training program is designed to raise puppies who can handle any obstacle without stress or fear. Mental cognition is vital, so we want to ‘send the puppies to school’ as early as possible. Your participation is what matters. It makes all the difference. Not only are you helping raise some of the best puppies, you are reducing the number of puppies that wash out, and increasing the number of dogs we can raise each year.
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PTSD service dogs are a challenge to raise. Their primary purpose is not to give comfort to the handler. They go above and beyond:
interrupting nightmares, phoning for help, turning lights on, waking up their handlers, picking up dropped items at home and in public, grounding the handler until they feel better, possibly alerting that an episode is approaching, making space in public, lead handler to an exit, find a car in a parking lot, interrupt self harming or OCD behavior, Deep Pressure Therapy, waking up handler from a nightmare, block a crowd, room/house sweep when handler arrives home,
All with, and without cues. These dogs are truly the stars of our program. They have a big task ahead of them. They are a lifeline that gives their handlers freedom.
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The first 3 levels of our class program are excellent preparation for dogs who will be doing Therapy dog work. It is important to note that many therapy dog organizations do their own training on a ‘sink or swim’ basis.
If you would like to set your dog up for success than the first 3 levels of our ‘how to train your own service dog’ program will benefit your dog. It will learn to remain calm in a variety of stressful situations, how to maneuver in public, and you and your dog will learn how to avoid confrontation.
At the end of this program your dog will not be a registered therapy dog. You are strongly not advised to go into public without first joining an organization, or club, which is insured. This is for liability issues.
We have trained Therapy dogs for a variety of situations. At the moment one of our dogs are working at a girl’s private school out west.
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