While many disabled people receive service dogs from professional training programs, getting a “program dog” often requires time and resources that many disabled people just cannot afford. Many ...

How and where to get a service dog can be a life-changing decision for those with disabilities. Service dogs are trained to perform tasks that aid their handlers with physical or psychiatric ...

People are often shocked when they learn that a fully trained service dog can cost as much as a new car, and a nice one at that. To the average person, these numbers seem unbelievable and a process ...

Saturday marks 35 years since the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The ADA paved the way for service dogs to help people. Canine Companions service dogs help people live a more ...

Rosie has been progressing in her training and she went to the library for the first time yesterday. My PSD trainer, Jane Miller from Healing Companions, and I were working on public access training ...

More people with disabilities, from hard-of-hearing to autism spectrum disorder, are uniting with service dogs to help them ...

As two new residents trot into MCI-Framingham, they won’t be focused on serving time — they’ll learn to sit, stay and how to change lives. The two service dogs in training, named Hawkeye and Helia, ...

Mackenzie Jacobs gets up early every morning to feed her puppy, Korlette. The pair practice commands like "sit" and "lie down," The 10-year-old loves being an official puppy raiser and working with ...

JEFFERSON CITY — An organization that trains dogs to be service animals for farmers in need recently picked up a dog from an unlikely home: the Jefferson City Correctional Center. PHARM Dog USA trains ...

The founder and president of Paws for Purple Hearts is celebrating 50 years of the modern-day service dog concept she began by training dogs to serve people. Dr. Bonnie Bergin's nonprofit trains dogs ...

Carmen selected Pochita to train as her service dog in late 2023 from a responsible breeder because of his exceptionally friendly and stable temperament and a willingness to work. Carmen says the ...