PAWSibilities
Service Dogs For
OUR HEROS
OUR WORK
At PAWSibilities, we are passionate about providing top-notch, well-trained service dogs to those in need. Our dogs undergo rigorous training to ensure that they are capable of providing a range of services. We are committed to providing personalized service and matching each individual with the perfect service dog for their unique needs.
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PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE DOGS
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PTSD
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Anxiety Disorder
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Depression
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Panic Attacks
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Mood Disorder
At PAWSibilities, we provide highly trained psychiatric service dogs.
Psychiatric service dogs are trained to carry out a wide range of tasks. Not only can they be trained to tune in to their handler’s state of mind, but they can learn specific commands that are vital in emergency situations.
Psychiatric service dogs cover a wide range of conditions such as PTSD, anxiety, depression, emotional support, assistance with daily tasks, a sense of companionship and safety. They can assist with tasks like calming their handler, fetching an item, or alerting them to danger, alerting to anxiety, interrupting panic attacks, and providing tactile stimulation as well.
While each handler’s needs are different, the primary role of a psychiatric dog is to provide comfort, protection, and assistance. Psychiatric service dogs can help their handler perform everyday tasks that might otherwise be challenging due to their mental health condition.
PTSD dogs are also trained to handle crowded public environments, such as buses or trains, and to deal with emergency situations.
Our service dogs are trained to perform these specific tasks that mitigate the symptoms of these disabilities.
Amidst daily challenges of individuals who are struggling with mental health issues, we rekindle hope, foster resilience, and ensure that our Nations Heroes, alongside their faithful PAWSibilitiy K9 Service Dogs, strides confidently into a brighter future.
Our dogs are carefully selected and trained to provide for those who provided for US!
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EMOTIONAL SUPPORT DOGS
Our emotional support dogs provide comfort and companionship to individuals with disabilities. They are trained to provide a sense of calm and security during times of distress.
Every dog owner knows there are many benefits to having a dog. From getting themselves out for exercise to receiving loyal companionship or just touching or hugging your dog can give instant stress relieve. However, for some people with mental or emotional conditions, the presence of a dog is critical to their ability to function normally on a daily basis. The pet provides emotional support and comfort that helps them deal with challenges that might otherwise compromise their quality of life. These pets are known as emotional support animals (ESAs).
ESAs must know
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Emotional support dogs are pets, not service dogs.
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Mental health professionals prescribe emotional support animals under the law.
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Airlines are no longer required to accommodate emotional support animals.
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ESA dogs do not receive the same accommodations as service dogs.
Emotional support dogs can perform an important role in the life of a person with mental or emotional conditions. When people who do not have a disability abuse the system by misrepresenting a pet as an ESA to obtain special accommodation, they undermine important accommodations for individuals with a legitimate need for this assistance.
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PHYSICAL ASSISTANCE DOG
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Wheelchair Assistance
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Mobility / Brace Assistance
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Stabilization Assistance
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Physical Assistance
A physical mobility assistance dog is a type of service dog that is trained to assist people with mobility issues. Such can include poor balance issues of individuals, amputees, a non-ambulatory wheelchair user, or someone who has to use braces to get around during daily activities. These dogs are trained to perform various tasks for their human partners who have this disability. A physical assistance dog can help with such. Opening automatic doors, retrieving out-of-reach objects, and bringing up dropped articles to your hands (to name a few) will make day-to-day life much easier. They can even assist you on all forms of public transportation like buses and airplanes as well.
Our dogs are trained to serve as a brace for their partner by wearing a harness for those who suffer from strength and balance issues. Instead of struggling on their own to finish daily movements, our mobility service dog can act as a support system with everything you do.
A physical / mobility assistance dog serves as an invaluable helper in public and a home environment.
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THERAPY DOGS
Therapy dogs are dogs who go with their owners to volunteer and provide emotional support to individuals in a variety of settings, such as schools, hospitals, retirement homes, nursing homes, hospices, disaster areas, and people with learning difficulties. Our therapy dogs provide emotional support to all individuals. They are trained to interact with people of all ages and provide a sense of comfort and joy.
The moment a volunteer with a therapy dog walks into a room, you can instantly feel a change in mood. All eyes focus on them, as smiles spread across everyone’s faces. A trained therapy dog can provide a valuable sense of reassurance, joy, or calmness to people experiencing stress, loneliness, or depression. Therapy dogs and their owners work together as a team to improve the lives of other people.
Although therapy animals provide a very important therapeutic service to all kinds of people in need, they are NOT considered “service animals” and they and their handlers have no protections under federal law (ADA, the Fair Housing Act, Air Carrier Access Act, etc.).
Emotional Support Dog
Therapy Dog
PTSD Service Dog
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MEDICAL
ASSISTANCE DOG
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Autism Assistance
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Seizure / Response Alert
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Severe Allergy Alert
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Medical Alert
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Diabetic Alert
Medical assistance dogs are a type of service dogs that are trained to help people with disabilities or medical conditions. They can perform tasks such as pulling a wheelchair, retrieving, alerting to a medical crisis, and providing assistance in a medical crisis. Medical assistance dogs are different from guide dogs or hearing dogs. Guide dogs help people with blindness and hearing dogs help people with deafness.
Medical alert dogs signal the onset of a medical issue such as a seizure or low blood sugar, alert the user to the presence of allergens, and can serve many other functions.
Service Dog
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SERVICE DOGS
Dogs are extremely important parts of our daily lives. They follow our commands, work with us in various capacities, and act as faithful companions. Studies have shown that dogs provide many health benefits. Spending time with dogs does wonders for your well-being. Recent research shows that owning a dog is good for you physically and emotionally. Dogs make us happier and healthier. They can help us cope with a crisis and give unconditional love.
Here are a few science-backed benefits of having a dog.
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Dogs make us feel less Alone.
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Dogs are good for your heart: Studies suggest that dog owners have lower blood pressure levels and improved responses to stress. Research has concluded that the bond between humans and dogs reduces stress, which is a major cause of cardiovascular problems.
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Dogs Can Help Us Cope in Times of Crisis: Dogs can help us recover psychologically from a crisis. Purdue University’s College of Veterinary Medicine discovered that military veterans with PTSD can do better both physiologically and psychologically when they have a service dog. Veterans with a service dog had significantly fewer symptoms of PTSD and showed improved coping skills.
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Dogs Encourage You to Move: Those long treks along sidewalks, trails, and paths add up. A 2019 British study discovered that dog owners are nearly four times more likely than non-dog owners to meet daily physical activity guidelines.
Service dogs provide these abilities and more. Combined with training Service dogs perform specific tasks for individuals with disabilities. A service dog helps a person with a disability to lead a more independent life. According to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a service dog is “a dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for a person with a disability.”
“Disability” is defined by the ADA as a physical or mental impairment. It substantially limits one or more major life activities, including people with history of such an impairment, and people perceived by others as having such an impairment. A service dog is trained to take a specific action that helps an individual with a disability participate in daily life more fully. The task the dog performs is directly related to the person’s disability.
During the last decade, the use of service dogs has rapidly expanded.
However, more problems have arisen, and these may be caused by a lack of understanding of service dog training, working functions, and access to public facilities. That is why our Mission here at PAWSibilities K9 Service dogs is to increase the number of service dogs available to those who served others by applying our 75 years of combined experience to the most qualified dogs!
The ADA considers service dogs to be primarily working animals that are not considered pets.