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2. Assistance dog - Wikipedia

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   Assistance dog. An assistance dog is a dog that receives specialized training to aid an individual with a disability in navigating everyday life. Many assistance dogs receive training from a handler (who is often aided by a professional trainer) or from an assistance dog organization. 'Assistance dog' is the internationally established term for ...

3. Service animal - Wikipedia

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   A service animal is an animal that has been trained to assist a disabled person. The animal needs to be individually trained to do tasks that directly relate to the handler's disability, which goes beyond the ordinary training that a pet receives [3] [4] and the non-individualized training that a therapy dog receives.

4. List of U.S. state dogs - Wikipedia

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   List of U.S. state dogs. Thirteen states of the United States have designated an official state dog breed. Maryland was the first state to name a dog breed as a state symbol, naming the Chesapeake Bay Retriever in 1964. [1] Pennsylvania followed the year after, naming the Great Dane as its official breed. [2]

5. Freedom Service Dogs - Wikipedia

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   Freedom Service Dogs. Freedom Service Dogs is a Denver, Colorado–based charitable organization devoted to training dogs as service dogs for people with disabilities that include multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, spinal-cord injury, PTSD, and more. The organization began a small-scale breeding program in ...

6. Life-changing companions: How to afford a service dog - AOL

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   About 1 in 4 U.S. adults ( 27%) have some type of disability. There are approximately 500,000 service dogs in the U.S. alone. The average cost of getting a trained service dog in the U.S. is ...

7. Service Dogs Are Beneficial for Veterans With PTSD, NIH ... - AOL

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   A recent National Institutes of Health-funded clinical trial studied the effects of having the companionship of service dogs for veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The ...