Our mission at Paws and Effect is to promote
and develop canine assistance to individuals and organizations
in the community.
What Are Assistance Dogs?
Many people with physical disabilities live lives of very
limited mobility and personal isolation. They often feel very
dependant on family members or other caregivers. Loneliness adds emotional
pressure to the disempowerment of depending on others.
Assistance dogs help break these barriers by respond to as many as 90
commands to assist a person to open doors, retrieve items, pull a
wheelchair, board a public bus, and help with transactions in a retail
setting, etc.
Trained assistance dogs are being recognized worldwide as a vital resource
to people with disabilities. Assistance dogs are trained to do work or
perform tasks for the benefit of a person with a disability.
Service Dog Teams:
Provide mobility and physical assistance to individuals with
physical disabilities.
Trained in 90 commands, service dogs enhance their independence by
retrieving items that fall, opening doors, turning light switches on and
off, assisting with transactions at stores by placing items on the counter
and retrieving objects that have been purchased and more. Service dogs
also provide companionship and unconditional love to their handlers.
