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Dog AID (Assistance in Disability) - http://www.dogaid.org.uk/
UK nonprofit organization that helps people with disabilities to train their own pet dogs as Assistance Dogs. |
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International Association of Assistance Dog Partners - http://www.iaadp.org/info.htm
A non-profit organisation presents several specific exercises. |
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Assistance Animals Training Resources - http://www.vachss.com/help_text/animal_training.html
Contains a range of articles, organizations and related websites offering information and resources for training and development of therapy and assistance animals. |
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http://www.topdogusa.org/ - http://www.topdogusa.org/
A non-profit organization teaching those with physical disabilities to train their own dogs as certified service dogs. Program overview, newsletter, and online ordering of training manuals and videos. Tucson, Arizona. |
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Canix, European Canine Institute - http://canix.org/
Offers custom training of service dogs for physically disabled adults, guardian dogs for disabled children, hearing dogs for the hearing impaired and therapy dogs that visit chronically ill adults and children in hospitals and institutions. The dogs can be trained in Danish, English, German and Spanish. |
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Disability Aid Dogs - http://www.aiddogs.com.au/
Australian not for profit group that trains dogs for the disabled, from service dogs to therapy and companion dogs, also dogs for the emotionally and mentally handicapped. |
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Service Dogs: Training Your Own - http://sdog.danawheels.net/ot-adog.shtml
Providing detailed information, suggested reading and first-person advice. |
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Search and Rescue Dog Training - http://www.islandnet.com/sarbc/sarbc/dtrn.html
Describes the requirements in obedience, agility, tracking and retrieving. |
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Assistance Dogs of America, Inc. - http://www.assistancedogsofamerica.org/
A non-profit organization that trains dogs ( often from rescue shelters ) for placement with disabled handlers. Contains PDF files of requirements. |
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Worldwide Welcome Waggin' - http://www.beaconbay.cc/dogs/adogs/ipr/
International puppy raisers group. Includes directories of organizations that use puppy raisers and assistance dog mailing lists. |
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Disabled Americans Have Rights Too: Links - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dahrt/links/Service_Animals_000983680297/Training_000987027163/
Directory of sites about training service dogs. |
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Guide and Service Dog Training - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gdsdtrainingonly/
Forum for puppy raisers, owner trainers, handlers, and school trainers to discuss issues, methods and problems. |
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OC-Assist-Dogs Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OC-Assist-Dogs/
An unmoderated list discussing clicker training for assistance dogs. |
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Assistance Dog Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-Dog/
Mailing list for trainers, including puppy raisers, service dog users, self raisers, instructors and training school staff. |
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Berkeley DogEars: Do It Yourself - http://www.xenosoft.com/dogears/diy.html
Instructions for teaching a dog to respond to sounds such as an alarm clock and smoke detector. |