a helping hand should not cost your dignity

Simple tasks like picking up a dropped phone, or walking across the room to turn off the light switch are not simple for everyone. Physical disability or long-term illness can make the things we take for granted difficult or impossible. People with severe physical limitations can find access to new degrees of independence and dignity with the use of a properly trained dog.

Dogs can be taught to provide support  at home and in public, providing help 24 hours a day without schedule limitations. Having dogs perform simple tasks also allows trained health-care workers to perform more skilled tasks and spend less time on simple things that could be asked of a dog 24 hours per day. 

Some disabilities or diseases can create special challenges for otherwise independent people in their everyday lives. For some people having a service dog allows them to live a full and productive life without any further need for support. A large portion of these people can even pay for their own needs to be met. By providing them with appropriate support and training we can give someone who would otherwise require assistance the ability to exist and live with their desired level of independence.

We don't have to have an illness or a disability to need help. Our elders can be just as much in need of a combination physical assistance/ companion animal as anyone else.

Service animals are growing, changing things and need continued support and maintenance. We treat service dogs as a lifetime commitment and many of our service dog owners are working with their second or third dog.