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Assistance Dog Group
- Mailing list for trainers, including puppy raisers, service dog users, self raisers, instructors and training school staff. |
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Assistance Dogs of America, Inc.
- 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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Assistance Dog Training
- Advice is given on whether to use an established program or to undertake owner-training. |
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Berkeley DogEars: Do It Yourself
- Instructions for teaching a dog to respond to sounds such as an alarm clock and smoke detector. |
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Disabled Americans Have Rights Too: Links
- Directory of sites about training service dogs. |
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Guide and Service Dog Training
- Forum for puppy raisers, owner trainers, handlers, and school trainers to discuss issues, methods and problems. |
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International Association of Assistance Dog Partners
- A non-profit organisation presents several specific exercises. |
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OC-Assist-Dogs Group
- An unmoderated list discussing clicker training for assistance dogs. |
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OTADogs4U Group
- Mailing list for people with disabilities wishing to train their own dogs to become service dogs. Also for anyone interested in helping to train such dogs. |
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Owner-Trained Assistance Dogs
- Discussion forum for disabled people training an assistance dog. Handlers working with program dogs are also welcome to participate. |
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Search and Rescue Dog Training
- Describes the requirements in obedience, agility, tracking and retrieving. |
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Service Dogs: Training Your Own
- Providing detailed information, suggested reading and first-person advice. |
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Top Dog
- 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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Training and Use of Canines in Medical Rehabilitation
- Proposed standards for minimum training requirements and desirable characteristics of the dog. |
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Training Tips in Animal Facilitated Treatment
- Suggestions for adapting standard techniques, as well as games that can be played by dog and patient. |
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Walking Cane-9s Group
- Forum for owners of service dogs to discuss training methods and problems as well as exercise and fitness for dog and owner. |
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Worldwide Welcome Waggin'
- International puppy raisers group. Includes directories of organizations that use puppy raisers and assistance dog mailing lists. |
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