Service animals are defined as dogs that are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities. Examples of such work or tasks include guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding a person with mental illness to take prescribed medications, calming a person with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) during an anxiety attack, or performing other duties.
Service animals are working animals, not pets. The work or task a dog has been trained to provide must be directly related to the person’s disability. Dogs whose sole function is to provide comfort or emotional support do not qualify as service animals under the ADA.
There are many types of service animals, such as psychiatric service animals, Hearing impaired, Seizure alert & Response dogs, Visually Impaired, Mobility assistance dogs, Autism Service Animals, Diabetic Alert dogs, and Allergy Detection Dogs.
Psychiatric Service Animals (PSA) are dogs trained to work or perform tasks for people with mental illness or learning disabilities.
Your mental illness must prevent you from living your life independently to qualify for PSA. If it doesn’t pose limitations on your daily life, you probably won’t be able to get a PSA.
The more common psychiatric service animals are those for PTSD. As you may know, many military service men and women have PTSD. A service animal can be highly trained for these individuals based on their needs and the severity of their illness.
At WooF Dogs, we train and test dogs for PTSD. Either we can help provide the dog and prepare it for the person with the disability, or we can test your dog and train it to become a service animal for you.
DOCTOR’S LETTER
A Doctor’s letter prescribes a service animal to help you with your disability
EVALUATE YOUR DOG
Consultation with our experienced trainers to discuss your options and qualifications to get or train a service animal
OBEDIENCE TRAINING
Basic & Advanced Obedience training, focusing on your disability
PUBLIC ACCESS TRAINING
So the dog can perform and behave in a public setting, including slippery floors, Elevators, and escalators, as well as high traffic and distracting environments.
SPECIFIC TASK TRAINING
Matching your disabilities
PASSING C.G.C
Canine good citizen
PASSING CGCA
Advance Canine Good Citizen
PASSING WDSAT
WooF Dogs Service Animal Test usually includes all the training the dog had as a service dog
ID Card
We will provide proof of training as an ID card that will expire every year, and the dog and his owner will need to pass WDSAT to renew their ID card.
SUCCESS
Those requirements might be higher than the ADA requirements and created by WooF Dogs experts to provide sufficient training for the service animal
On this Collar of Duty episode you will see how can a service animal change the life of his owner. Atlas is a service animal trained by us to provide his owner mobility and confidence on his daily life. Skip to minute 13:00 to watch us.
