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Service Dogs
The purpose of a Service Dog is to allow individuals to regain independence. Whether the handicap is physical or psychological, a Service Dog can serve as the vessel to give peace of mind and confidence to people who have difficulty negotiating the world. Dogs trained to assist people with diabetes, seizures, hearing loss, and PTSD give their owners the confidence that any situation can be handled quickly and effectively even when away from home. Dogs trained to assist people with physical handicaps provide their owners with the secure knowledge that they will not have to ask strangers to do things like pick up a dropped item, hold open a door, or push their wheelchair over a threshold. Having a Service Dog can open the world to individuals who have been relatively home-bound for years.
Working with a trainer to train your own Service Dog is very rewarding. Learning how to communicate effectively with your canine companion builds a special bond as you become a team. The process of training from start to finish is approximately two years, but your dog is generally “working” for you after just a few months. Along with advanced obedience skills and specific assistance skills, Service Dog training involves public access skills to make certain your dog is as unobtrusive as possible when accompanying you to doctor’s offices, retail stores, restaurants, etc. For all practical purposes, Service Dogs are trained to be “invisible.”
In many instances the training process itself provides great emotional benefits. The hours spent training builds confidence for you as well as your dog. Learning how your dog thinks and processes information allows you to understand which commands will elicit the responses you desire. Practice and more practice helps tune those commands and obedience skills for both of you. Giving the commands becomes second nature to you, and your dog will readily follow each cue and hand signal. Your relationship blossoms into a smoothly flowing stream of teamwork. The emotional benefit of this teamwork with your Service Dog is a sense of pride and accomplishment which carries forward in everyday life.
The physical benefits of training vary. For some individuals mobility is enhanced by the required movements of training. For others the mental aspects of remembering which commands and hand signals go together promote better recall and strengthen hand-eye coordination. For those students suffering from anxiety and PTSD the process of training actually ameliorates their stress levels. Physical reactions become less prominent because they encounter stressful circumstances during class in order to train their dog. With the trainer at their side they negotiate stores and situations which they would normally avoid.
