What are Service Dogs Trained To Do?

This is what they are trained to do for you

1. Seizure Assistance Dogs

Dogs that assist patients who suffer epilepsy or seizures. They can alert others when their companion is having a seizure, lick their muscles and face and even serve as a barrier between the owner and the floor if they were to fall.

Seizure Assistance Dogs

2. Autism Assistance Dogs

These dogs provide emotional support and companionship as a way to “ease sensory overload” common in patients with autism. In most cases service dogs also perform physical tasks for their humans.

3. Mobility Assistance Dogs

This is a great physical task dogs with a special ability to open doors, push buttons, retrieve fallen items, move and carry objects with their mouth as a way of helping people with limited mobility to interact with other humans.

Mobility Assistance Dogs

4. Medical Service Dogs

This Service Dog is trained as a mobility Assistance Dog and is capable of signaling shifting insulin levels, sensing oncoming seizures and onset mood attacks, allowing their owners to take appropriate action. 

Medical Service Dogs

A special scent is released when a human’s insulin levels drop and these dogs are trained to pick up on it with their keen sense of smell.

 See 4 More Service Dogs plus a Seizure Assistance Dog in action. Watch the video below. Click “Next”