Many people believe that a certified emotional support animal is the same as a service dog. The confusion around these two ...
If you scroll the service dog sides of TikTok and Instagram, you’ll see lots of incredible dogs showing the many ways they help their disabled owners. Maybe you’ve seen guide dogs guiding their blind ...
Service dogs are highly trained animals that assist individuals with specific disabilities, like blindness, hearing loss, ...
Medical service dogs assist patients with physiologic alerts for conditions like POTS, though evidence for cardiac benefits is still emerging.
Follow the two-year service dog training process and hear from their handlers. Thousands of people with disabilities rely on assistance of service dogs. From training as puppies, living in prison, and ...
One of the questions people ask the most when Tazuna and I are out and about is about the process to become a service dog and what the service dog qualifications are. She has her vest, is obedient to ...
From the time the first friendly wolves lingered near human campfires tens of thousands of years ago, dogs and people have shared a truly unique connection. Over the centuries, that bond has only ...
In my last column, I wrote about the high-level canine training at Assistance Dogs of the West, the nationally recognized service dog training agency based in Santa Fe. Before those elite students ...
Follow the two-year service dog training process and hear from their handlers. Thousands of people with disabilities rely on the assistance of service dogs. Follow the two-year service dog training ...
Dear Savvy Senior: What can you tell me about service dogs for seniors with disabilities? My 67-year-old father has chronic arthritis and Parkinson’s disease, and I’m wondering if an assistance dog ...
The Washoe County Board of Commissioners has approved a new dogs in the workplace policy.