Service Dogs

Find all of our service dog information below!

Types of Service Dogs We Train

  • A psychiatric service dog can be used to assist someone with a mental disability such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and more. They may retrieve medications, interrupt repetitive behaviors, provide deep pressure therapy or a variety of other needed tasks.

  • An autism support dog does many similar tasks to a psychiatric service dog but is specifically trained to help a person with autism on a daily basis.

  • Medical alert dogs help people with conditions such as diabetes, epilepsy, or cardiac conditions to alert to an oncoming episode. Similarly medical response dogs provide tasks that help their human during an episode or after. Both medical alert and medical response tasks are commonly all performed by one dog.

  • A hearing alert dog can make all the difference to a person who is deaf or hard of hearing. These dogs alert to and direct their humans towards sounds they may be unable to hear such as smoke detectors, timers, knocking on doors, oncoming traffic, and more!

  • A mobility support dog is a very versatile type of service animal. Depending on their owners abilities, they may be training to retrieve items, open doors, turn on/off lights, provide physical support for their human, or be a counter balance in order to help a person walk.

Becoming a Service Dog

  • Obedience Training and In-Home Exam

    You can schedule for our advanced obedience sessions or buy a package that includes advanced obedience sessions to complete this step. Once your dog is performing well with obedience, we will perform an in-home obedience exam to assess their skills.

  • Public Access Training and PAT Exam

    Once you’ve completed your obedience portion, we will begin working on your dogs public behavior and perform a Public Access Test to ensure they are ready to move forward with their training!

  • Task Training

    The last portion of the journey to being a service dog is task training. This is where we develop the individual things your dog will do to assist a disability (these are called tasks). These might include medical alert, item retrieval, guiding and more!

Obedience and Public Access Packages

Note: All packages can be adjusted at any time to add more in-home obedience, group classes, or public access sessions. An obedience exam is required to move onto public access training even if that means adding sessions.

Beginner

For dogs who have had little to no training. We’ll spend a good deal of time working on obedience then move to public access training, ensuring your dog is ready to work!

Includes: 8 Advanced Obedience Sessions

7 Group Classes

6 Public Access Sessions

Intermediate

For dogs with a little bit of training who need a bit of obedience work. There will be fewer obedience sessions with this package before we move into public access!

Includes: 5 Advanced Obedience Sessions

5 Group Classes

5 Public Access Sessions

Almost Ready to Work

For dogs who are obedience experts, we’ll do one review session and then perform an obedience exam. We’ll spend most of our sessions together working on public access!

Includes: 2 Advanced Obedience Sessions

3 Group Classes

4 Public Access Sessions