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Service Dog Training / Placement ProgramThe Gift of Life is One You Can Make - By Making a Donation to the SPCA, You Know You Are Helping to Work For A Better Community
SERVICE DOG TRAINING FOR GENERAL PUBLIC ACCESS AND HOME SKILLS
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General Information
SPCA Service Dog Training / Placement Program Specifics
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Training Seizure Alert Dogs Specifically
3rd Party Service Dogs
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A group of Service Dogs
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  • How does the program work?
  • What are the legal liabilities of owning a service dog?
  • What is the Training curriculum
  • What types and ages of dogs can be trained to be Service Dogs?
  • Who can get a Service Dog from the SPCA?
  • How much does it cost to get a Service Dog from the SPCA?
  • How come some places advertise their dogs for free?
  • Does the SPCA assist with financing? How?
  • What are your qualifications to train Service Dogs?
  • How are your Service Dogs certified?

    • According to IRS Publication 17, "Guide dogs or other animals aiding the blind, deaf, and disabled" qualify as a medical expense.
    more info...

    Service Dog opening a door Our Service Dogs may be trained to retrieve things that drop, portable telephones, or items from shelves and other hard-to-reach places; open refrigerator and other doors; push elevator buttons; pull items such as an empty wheelchair to the owner or socks off of a disabled person's feet, turn light switches on and off; carry items in their mouths or backpacks; pull wheelchairs up ramps or short distances; go get help should their partner need human assistance.

    The only type of dog we are not qualified to train are seeing-eye/guide dogs.

    WANT TO KNOW IF YOU QUALIFY OR IF WE CAN HELP YOU WITH A DOG OF YOUR OWN? CLICK HERE.

    If you'd like to watch a Service Dog being trained, Visit Lucy's Diary.

    IMPORTANT NOTE: All Service Dogs trained by the SPCA staff will receive free AVID Microchip ID & Chip Registration with PetTrac, a free "Service Dog" vest or backpack, vehicle decal, ID Card & Tags, and a Certification of Public Access from the SPCA.

    To Donate Now to the SPCA Service Dog Training / Placement Program, CLICK HERE.
    What would my donation to this program buy?
    - New Kids On The Block -

    || Dogs in Training: ||
    These dogs are receiving Basic Obedience along with Public Access Skills training
    and will be ready to be matched with a disabled person for Advanced Tasks training
    in whatever areas the person may need their dog to do.
    Photos coming Soon
    Pearl - Female Black Lab Puppy, Chip - Chocolate Lab Puppy,
    Nugget - Yellow Lab Puppy, Colton - Black Lab Puppy
    Note: Colton was donated with the reservation that he go to a Disabled Veteran.
    Expected "Ready" Date:
    August 1st, 2010.

    We are not qualified to train Seeing Eye (Guide) Dogs

    || Shelter Dogs Now Available for Advanced Training ||
    These are dogs that are Basic Trained & waiting to be placed with a disabled individual now.
    None at this time
    Next expected date: August 1st, 2010

    || Recently Placed Dogs: ||
    Fundraisers for Service Dogs are special events held by our organization to assist local disabled individuals
    to be able to pay for their Service Dog.
    Please check the Upcoming Events to know when we will be your area and make it a point to stop by!
    Reggie
    REGGIE
    West Plains, Missouri
    Odie
    ODIE
    Huntsville, Arkansas

    || Dogs currently needing a foster home: ||
    None at this time.

    LOOKING FOR SPECIAL PEOPLE FOR SPECIAL DOGS!
    Foster Homes are needed for Service Dogs in Training immediately
    to give them a temporary home and continue with their training until they are matched with a disabled person who needs them.
    Please call the shelter if you would be interested in fostering a dog.
    (870)453-7249

    Carrie / J.D. & Beth / Reggie in training
    Carrie / J.D. & Beth / Reggie during a training session.
    Many times one dog can help to teach another.
    THIS PROGRAM CAN ALSO, MOST TIMES, WORK WITH A DOG YOU ALREADY OWN!
    Click Here for more information.

    For more info or to ask any questions you may have, contact Jenny at (870) 453-7249, or e-mail

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    The North Arkansas Central SPCA is a non-profit organization chartered in April of 2004
    by the Arkansas Secretary of State for the prevention of animal cruelty purposes
    and approved as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
    Gifts to the Organization are 100% tax-deductible.

    A North Arkansas / Southern Missouri assistance project.

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