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Our dogs are trained to live and work confidently with recipients in their home and help them with their own particular tasks or needs whether it be shopping, taking trips in buses, trains or taxis, going to work and social events.
ASDOG is a member of Assistance Dogs International (ADI) and follows their internationally accepted code of ethics in relation to all areas of operation and accreditation of dogs and recipient.
Who can ASDOG help?
ASDOG specially trains dogs to help people who have physical disabilities and enables them to live with greater independence and improved quality of life. There are many situations where a dog can help as well as be a great asset.
How does ASDOG work?
The puppies chosen to be future Assistance Dogs are raised by volunteer puppy raisers. These wonderful people receive guidance from ASDOG trainers and are shown how to teach their pups, using positive reinforcement methods, to be calm and brave and to love working. While young the pups are taken out to places where they will work as adults. They are taken out and about and great care is taken to ensure all of their experiences are positive and happy.
When the pups are between 12 and 14 months of age they go to live with an ASDOG trainer and receive 6-9 months of intensive obedience, task and public contact training, after which they are then matched with a suitable recipient.
Once matching has taken place, the dog and recipient receive two weeks' training together. This occurs in their home and home environment. After the team is confidently working together at tasks in their home, they go with the instructors to the shops, on buses, trains and taxis, to their work and to their social destinations. ASDOG’s aim is to provide a dog that is confident and trained to live and work in an individual person's world.
ASDOG provides continual contact with the recipient always providing follow up with periodic ongoing training as required.
When the team is ready (no specific time is given) they go for the Public Accreditation Test. Whilst in public, the dog is required to wear a distinctive orange cape which contains ASDOG’s logo and identifies the dog as a trained assistance dog.
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