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Our Assistance
Dogs
PawPADs’ exciting
programs are designed with one final goal in mind:
to provide highly
trained assistance dogs to persons with disabilities.
Assistance Dogs provide specific services to their partners as
well as greatly enhancing the quality of their lives with a new
sense of freedom and independence!
Our dogs
can
know over 70 commands and can
be trained to:
 Open doors;
Turn lights on/off;
Retrieve dropped or needed objects;
Carry bags;
Rise to counters;
Pull wheelchairs.
Also,
equally important as the tasks performed,
the dog provides constant companionship and emotional support to the person it
is placed with.
Depression, loneliness and anxiety tend to diminish, and it is the dog’s
capacity for unconditional love that is often the greatest gift. Through
partnership with an assistance dog, people often experience a joy and confidence
previously unattainable through
other means.
Assistance Dogs
often act as
"social lubricants;" facilitating
increased social interaction for persons with disabilities.
Some
Assistance Dogs are trained as hearing dogs, for use with alerting
persons who are hearing impaired to sounds in their environments, such as babies crying, door bells ringing, and smoke alarms.
PawPADs trains and works with others to train, service dogs and hearing dogs. Additionally PawPADs trains dogs to be used in therapeutic
activities (social therapy dogs) such as visiting hospitals and care facilities.
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