Welcome To
Disability Aid Dogs

Our Home Page - Site Updated 10 October 2009 - "We Care".

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The essence of an Assistance Dog is how they actually 'Assist".  Here, 2 of our best accredited trainers, Judith and her husband Garven, are giving Judith freedom she could never have even dreamed of some years back.  Not only does Snuffy - (The St Bernard Pulling The Cart), or her son Jayde (Pictured beside the cart), give her freedom, but actually enable mobility and even swimming as is pictured below.

These two highly professional trainers have become a legend all over the eastern parts of Australia, with their 3 highly trained dogs, Jayde - (Now 4 Years) - assists her with wheelchair access in high pressure public environments, where Snuffy - (Now Near 8 Years) - is trained for the cart from a young dog.  The more recent addition (Not Pictured Here), is Gemma - (Now 18 Months), is being groomed for both the cart and public environments, as aging Snuffy will need to retire, Gemma slowly taking over this most vital of jobs, Judith's Freedom and Mobility!

An Assistance Dog is not only a dog that is in public assisting the blind or obviously disabled, but frequently will be with someone who seems to be perfectly normal, yet has a dog that has a cape on that clearly defines it as an Assistance Dog.  Maybe that person could be deaf, suffers from high anxiety that the dog alleviates by purely being with them (remember the therapeutic effect of a pet), yet these animals are frequently trained by professionals who know their business, some of whom have spent their lives with dogs (Like Judith), others may have started later, taking on years of training and experience before they are truly a qualified International Dog Trainer.  This year, definitive and strict laws have finally been passed, both Federal (Disability Discrimination Act 1992, revised August 5 2009), are now in place (See "The Law And Assistance Dogs" On Links Bar).

Also See - www.trainingdogs.com.au - For Training Information

This "Home Page" is to inform everyone who visits this site, that Assistance Dogs are not always what the perception may be by the general public, this site is an Informational Site that tells it as it actually is in the real world and in real terms. 

The information on this site, and that of
www.trainingdogs.com.au
is designed to inform and put right the many misconceptions that the public have been fed over many years by the media, trainers and organisations that just did not have the facts.  The information here is from one of the pioneers of the industry, many know him as "Wolfman", those who are close to him also know that he is 'driven' to really understand 'the wild', also ceaselessly helping the needy and disabled of our modern society.

This man also founded Disability Aid Dogs back in February 1994.