Sentences with phrase «become service dog candidates»

TLCAD obtains both purpose - bred puppies and carefully assessed shelter dogs that become service dog candidates in our Rescue Acquisition Program.

Not exact matches

If the service dog candidate meets the criteria for service work, it enters training in our Prisoners Overcoming Obstacles and Creating Hope (POOCH) program, to be trained by inmates to become a service dog.

Paws and Stripes is a local nonprofit that evaluates our shelter pets to determine if they are possible candidates to become service dogs for veterans, often working with mobility issues or disorders like post-traumatic stress syndrome.

While service dogs are selected for certain qualities as puppies, it can safely be said less than 50 % of the puppies that start out as candidates, actually ever become one.

But Kermit's calm demeanor and «knack of knowing who to go to,» made him a perfect candidate for training to become a certified therapy dog for funeral services, reported the Austin Chronicle.