Service Animals

Toothless animals are called edentates. These animals have evolved unique adaptations to compensate for the lack of teeth, such as specialized diets or unique feeding strategies. Examples of edentates include anteaters, sloths, and baleen whales.

A therapy animal is one that is trained, tested, certified, and insured to visit people in hospitals and nursing homes. A person with a therapy animal has no particular right under the ADA to take their animal anywhere pets are not permitted. If the owner wishes to visit a facility like a hospital or nursing home, they must first seek out and receive the permission of administrators at the facility they wish to visit.

A psychiatric service animal is individually trained to perform tasks that the owner cannot perform because of a disability as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Psychiatric service animals, like all other service animals, assist their disabled handlers by performing these tasks.

An emotional support animal is not required to have any training beyond the ordinary manners expected of pet dogs. Emotional support animals assist their owners by providing emotional support, comfort, companionship, and unconditional love.

Unlike a person with a service animal, a person with an emotional support animal does not have a right under the ADA to take them to any place where pets are not permitted. Under the Fair Housing Amendments Act, a qualified person with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation in the form of a modification of rules against the keeping of pets in order to keep an emotional support animal.

The U.S. Department of Justice, which enforces the Americans with Disabilities Act, has issued this explanation of the differences between service animals and emotional support animals:

"The Department is proposing new regulatory text in § 35.104 to formalize its position on emotional support or comfort animals, which is that ''[a]nimals whose sole function is to provide emotional support, comfort, therapy, companionship, therapeutic benefits, or promote emotional wellbeing are not service animals.'' The Department wishes to underscore that the exclusion of emotional support animals from ADA coverage does not mean that persons with psychiatric, cognitive, or mental disabilities cannot use service animals. The Department proposes specific regulatory text in § 35.104 to make this clear: ''[t]he term service animal includes individually trained animals that do work or perform tasks for the benefit of individuals with disabilities, including psychiatric, cognitive, and mental disabilities.'' This language simply clarifies the Department's longstanding position."

A therapy animal basically brings joy into people's lives. A therapy animal is very gentle, and its main job is to just love everyone. Therapy animals visit old folks homes and patient wards to try and get them to be happier during the hard times ahead.

The top three therapy dog programs in the U.S. are: the Delta Society, Therapy Dogs International, and Therapy Dogs, Inc.

In the UK the top program is Pets as Therapy.

Find a local therapy dog club, training class or evaluator by consulting local resources, such as your veterinarian, local dog clubs, pet stores, and any facility you may be interested in visiting. Remember that even once a pet is registered as a therapy animal the owner must still have permission from the facility before they can visit. Some facilities only permit pets with specific qualifications such as registration with specific organizations. If you know there is a particular place you wish to visit, save time by asking them first what they require.

Service animals should be permitted in the waiting areas of emergency rooms.

However, it is at the discretion of treating physicians whether a service animal should be permitted in a treatment area. This determination must be made on a case-by-case basis based solely on whether the presence of that particular animal, in that particular place, at that particular time poses a direct threat to a person. It cannot be a perceived threat ("sometimes dogs bite") or based on past experience ("another service dog acted up") but must be a cognizable real threat ("I have a patient with serious open wounds and the presence of any loose dog hair or dander may cause dangerous infection of the wounds").

A service animal may also be excluded if its presence fundamentally alters the ability of the hospital to provide emergency services, for example if there isn't room to safely work around the dog without tripping or slowing treatment.

Birds and humans..otherwise, all other animals walk on all fours or have to hop on two feet, not walk. Kangaroos and wallabies walk on all fours and hop on two, so there's a big difference there.

That depends on the country of departure's laws and the country of arrival's laws. Some countries require all dogs, including guide and service dogs, to enter the country as cargo. Check Consular Information Sheets for the individual countries involved to find where to check the regulations for dog import/export. See the link below for Consular Information Sheets.
Yes, on flights originating and arriving at points in the U.S. or U.S. territories. The Air Carrier Access Act requires air carriers to permit service animals to travel in the cabin with their disabled handlers unless an animal physically does not fit in the space allotted to the traveler and there is no other space on board to accommodate them. If the animal will not fit in the cabin, the air carrier must offer to transport the animal as cargo free of charge.

Seeing eye dogs, as puppies, should be placed with a foster family to receive lots of love and care. This trains the dog to be patient and friendly around others, which are useful seeing eye dog qualities.

Certifying your service animal is 100% unnecessary. ada.gov will tell you everything you need to know about service animals. google it and find a place near you that will "test" your dog, charge you a bunch of money and then give you a piece of paper that you bear NO legal obligation to have.
There is no real Service Dog registration. To have a Service Dog you must be disabled and the dog must have trained tasks to mitigate that disability. IE Comforting someone is not a task, but a trained alert to medical conditions is. Faking a Service Dog can be up to a year in jail.

Dogs with the temperament to be service dogs are sent through 18-24 months of training. They learn basic and advanced obedience, public access skills and are task trained to assist their future disabled handler.

Various training methods are employed, it depends on the trainer. Some rely on classical conditioning while others use operant conditioning (clicker training). The dogs are taught slowly and thoroughly.

no, but they do have blind spots directly in front and behind them which means they cant see you there

They were used a messengers. A collor around their neck held a small cylinder which held a message. They had the task of delivering the message to the recipient. the dogs were trained to run faster than man. But there was always the problem that the dog would not reach the recipient. either from getting lost to being killed by the enemy.

There are too many programs and independent trainers to accurately count how many guide dogs are in place in the United States.

However, the Seeing Eye, the most recognized program in the world that trains guide dogs has reported in their 2007 annual report that they had 1,760 graduate teams in the field. Note that not all guide dogs are trained by the Seeing Eye. There are many programs that train guide dogs, but only those trained at the Seeing Eye are properly called "Seeing Eye dogs."

It is estimated there are about 20,000 Service Dog users in the US.

The Seeing Eye graduated 60 new dogs in 2009.

Roughly 1,500-2,000 Service dogs graduate each year,

about 150-200 of those for the blind.

The simple answer would be yes. There are assistant monkeys - monkeys trained to help the disabled. They are however intended more for the paraplegic - people who are paralyzed to some extent and need help doing things that require some skill: answering the phone, dialing the phone, turning on/off water facets. Blind people usually can do most things for themselves and can get by with the help of seeing eye dogs and monkeys help at writing books because the train them to and if they try to run away they've been cained up

In most countries, Assistance Animals are broken down into three sub-categories: Guide Dogs, Hearing Dogs, and Service Animals (everything other than guide or hearing dogs). In the U.S., the term Service Animal is used generically to mean any kind of assistance animal, including both guide and hearing dogs.

The Codes of Federal Regulation for the Americans with Disabilities Act defines "service animal" as "any guide dog, signal dog, or other animal individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including, but not limited to, guiding individuals with impaired vision, alerting individuals with impaired hearing to intruders or sounds, providing minimal protection or rescue work, pulling a wheelchair, or fetching dropped items." The U.S. Department of Justice goes further in their technical assistance papers to explain that "[a]nimals whose sole function is to provide emotional support, comfort, therapy, companionship, therapeutic benefits, or promote emotional well-being are not service animals.''

The Department further believes "that it is necessary to eliminate from coverage all wild animals, whether born or bred in captivity or the wild. Some animals, such as nonhuman primates, pose a direct threat to safety based on behavior that can be aggressive and violent without notice or provocation."

In an upcoming re-issuance of the Codes of Federal Regulation pertaining to service animals, the Department intends to add to the existing definition of service animal that "service animal'' does not include wild animals (including nonhuman primates born in captivity), reptiles, rabbits, farm animals (including any breed of horse, pony, miniature horse, pig, and goat), ferrets, amphibians, and rodents." Service animals are trained to perform tasks for their disabled owners. Guide dogs lead the blind around obstacles they cannot see and hearing dogs signal the deaf about sounds they cannot hear. Some service dogs pick up dropped items, open or close doors, or operate buttons or switches for owners in wheelchairs or with limited use of their hands.

I think you are talking about assistance dogs. Most assistance dogs are large, intelligent breeds such as retrievers (the Labrador and Golden are most common) and German Shepherds. However, some assistance dogs are tiny. I know a boy with cerebral palsy who cannot speak, stand or walk - his assistance dog is a tiny spaniel/longhaired chihuahua cross. Assistance dogs have many names. They are also called service dogs for one. All assistance dogs must undergo a rigorous temperament test and then a lot of training to ensure they are intelligent, friendly and up to the job. Many assistance dogs are trained to help disabled people lead normal lives. Others perform duties such as sniffing out banned material being smuggled through Customs, finding drugs and explosives, clearing minefields, tracking criminals, killing snakes and finding lost people. Some dogs are also therapy dogs. Most therapy dogs visit people who are in hospital or institutions to cheer them up. Therapy dogs do the rounds of local hospitals, hospices, mental institutions, nursing homes etc. and visit the residents. Just having an animal lying beside the bed can make a remarkable difference to some of these people. Dogs that help blind people are called guide dogs for the blind or simply guide dogs. They act as the eyes of a person with little or no eyesight, guiding them around obstacles, making sure they have a clear path and alerting them to visual signals they might have missed. Dogs that help deaf people are called assistance dogs for the deaf. They alert deaf people to sounds such as the doorbell, sirens or the telephone and perform many other everyday tasks. Some assistance dogs do not specialise in a particular condition. They are teamed with disabled people and learn to help them in the unique ways that will make their lives easier. Some of these ways include pulling a disabled person's wheelchair when they are tired, or detecting when an epileptic person is about to have a fit. Some dogs have been trained to press buttons that dial the emergency number and play a prerecorded message giving the name, address and condition of the person the dog is teamed with. Search And Rescue or SAR dogs are trained to sniff out trails to find people who are missing. There are remarkable stories of people being found by SAR dogs after days or weeks, alive. Police dogs are generally ferocious-looking but perfectly trained. They will sniff out and apprehend a criminal at great risk to themselves. Explosive detection dogs will sniff airport traffic to thwart terrorism attempts. They also clear minefields by sniffing out the mines so that they can be destroyed safely. Drug detection dogs have been responsible for some of the greatest drug busts in history, hauling in millions of dollars worth of illicit drugs. Customs dogs detect food and animals that have been illegally brought into a country, that may pose quarantine risks. All of these dogs are loyal, dedicated animals that make our lives easier. 'Assistance dog' usually refers to a dog that helps the disabled. 'Service dog' applies to all the dogs above. They also have particular names based on the duties they perform. These names are not dependant on gender. Most also have personal names given to them by their owners and trainers. I know three assistance dogs. Their names are Piper, Max and Bailey.

spare lead a mouth cover for the dog so that it doesn't bite you or someone else toys and buscuits (small) a dog whistle if you intend to let it off its lead easy tie fragranced poo bags watch harness coat (shorthaired) extendable lead a large thick towel to dry the dog off or put on the back seat of your car

Protection I believe. They have used dogs for some time now. My grandfather used a dog in WWII to protect himself from Japanese assassins who would kill soldiers while they slept. Dogs having more sensitive hearing would know that an enemy was about before anyone else would realize.

In my opinion Canines have been in the military for a very long time, I have heard other trainers talk about military canines back in Roman times, the uses have changed over the years, but the canine's nose is an invaluable tool.

You should take the most difficult math courses you can handle - Algebra II, Geometry, Pre-Calculus. Also, take the most difficult science classes you can handle, including Biology, Chemistry and Physics.

A psychiatric service animal is individually trained to perform tasks that the owner cannot perform because of a disability as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Psychiatric service animals, like all other service animals, assist their disabled handlers by performing these tasks. However, while the owner of an emotional support dog must also be disabled, the emotional support dog is not trained to perform tasks to mitigate the owner's disability.

Therapy animals are sometimes confused with psychiatric service animals or emotional support animals. However, therapy animals are something entirely different. A therapy animal is one that is trained, tested, registered, and insured to visit people in hospitals and nursing homes. A person with a therapy animal has no particular right under the ADA to take their animal anywhere pets are not permitted. If the owner wishes to visit a facility like a hospital or nursing home, they must first seek out and receive the permission of administrators at the facility they wish to visit.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, which regulates and enforces the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA):

"The Department is proposing new regulatory text in § 36.104 to formalize its position on emotional support or comfort animals, which is that ''[a]nimals whose sole function is to provide emotional support, comfort, therapy, companionship, therapeutic benefits, or promote emotional wellbeing are not service animals.'' The Department wishes to underscore that the exclusion of emotional support animals from ADA coverage does not mean that persons with psychiatric, cognitive, or mental disabilities cannot use service animals. The Department proposes specific regulatory text in § 35.104 to make this clear: ''[t]he term service animal includes individually trained animals that do work or perform tasks for the benefit of individuals with disabilities, including psychiatric, cognitive, and mental disabilities.'' This language simply clarifies the Department's longstanding position." The ADA gives the disabled owner of a service dog the right to be accompanied by his or her service dog to most places where the public are permitted, even if dogs are not generally allowed. However, the owner of an emotional support dog has no particular right to public access and must ask permission of the management to enter with an emotional support animal. Under the Fair Housing Amendments Act, a qualified person with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation in the form of a modification of rules against the keeping of pets in order to keep EITHER a service animal or an emotional support animal. Under the Air Carrier Access Act, a qualified person with a disability may be accompanied in the cabin of an air craft by either a psychiatric service dog or an emotional support animal if they have the proper documentation from their doctor.

They are trained to behave well, but like any dog they will bark, though not as often. This can be essential at times for warning their owners about things.

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), businesses and organizations that serve the public must allow people with disabilities to bring their service dogs into all areas of the facility where customers are normally allowed to go. This federal law applies to all businesses open to the public, including restaurants, hotels, taxis and shuttles, grocery and department stores, hospitals and medical offices, theaters, health clubs, parks, and zoos.

Private clubs (such as country clubs) and houses of worship (churches, mosques, etc.) may choose to exclude service dogs. They may of course choose to include them as well.

They work where they are needed. Search and rescue dogs are trained to handle many kinds of transportation and can even be transported by helicopter and raised and lowered in harnesses. In a disaster, SAR (Search And Rescue) dogs go where they are needed, anywhere in the world.

Some are specially trained to find and recover people buried in avalanches. Others do the same for people buried in the rubble of collapsed buildings. Some find missing people lost in deserts or wilderness. Some detect bodies of missing people, even when they are submerged under water.

Every disabled person in every state is allowed to have a service dog that is specially trained to mitigate their disability. There is not a limit on on many service dogs are allowed in a state.