Types Of Service Dogs

Frank, a Diabetic Alert Dog In Training learning to recognize the low blood sugar scent.

The Service Dog Academy can help you train or provide you with a trained service dog for:

• Diabetes / Diabetic Alert Dog / Hypo Alert Dog (see The Service Dog Academy’s Diabetic Alert Dog Story on TV)
• Seizure alert dog*
• Seizure Response Dog
• Psychiatric Service Dog
• PTSD Service Dog
• Migraine Alert Dog
• Mobility Aid Dog
• Hearing Alert Dog
• Narcolepsy Alert Dog
• Narcolepsy Response Dog

Marduk is the WORLD’S FIRST owner trained Narcolepsy Alert Dog!

Types of Dogs We Do Not Train For

• Guide Dogs – they require a certain skill set that none of our trainers have.
• Allergy alert dogs – training an alert dog requires thousands of repeated exposures of the dog to the allergen during the initial training process as well as continuous training for the rest of the dogs life with that allergen. This is counter productive for the person with the allergy and can cause the exact problem you are trying to prevent.
• Autism – none of our staff members have children and have a hard time putting themselves into the shoes of an autistic child. You are of course welcome to enroll in our classes which will give you a great foundation for service work, its just that autism is not a condition we are 100% comfortable saying we are “experts” in. We do not know of any agency in the entire puget sound area that does this type of training.

* Because seizures are sporadic in nature and each seizure is biochemically unique to the individual it may take up to a year to reliably train a seizure alert dog.

About

The Service Dog Academy is a PET and service dog training school located in the West Seattle neighborhood of Seattle, WA. We train your dog using a combination of both private in home training sessions as well as obedience classes for both adult and puppy dogs. We use humane and positive training methods to quickly address your dogs behavioral problems (including anxiety, aggression, potty training, biting, jumping, stealing, separation anxiety and barking). When you train your pet dog with us 100% of the profits go towards supporting the low cost service dog training program. Training with the Service Dog Academy is a great way to "pay it forward" while getting something in return. We are pleased to announce that in July we will start serving the Beacon Hill area with adult obedience dog training classes.