Fully Trained Service Dog Program
Summit Service Dogs offers professionally trained & certified service dogs in the province of Alberta. We train service dogs to provide support for Autism, Medical Response, Mobility, PTSD & Facility Dogs.
- Our dogs are handled positively by professionals from the time they are born to the time they have completed training. We know every single experience our dogs have had & how they have processed it. We only train our dogs using positive reinforcement & do not use adverse equipment or training techniques. In this way we can create happy, confident, engaged learners that later go on to become valued partners.
- We are able to know our dogs well & treat them as individuals. Instead of providing them with blanket coverage training we are able to tailor their training with what they need to be successful. If at any time we find our dogs not enjoying their training & the path their lives are headed, we will place them in loving pet homes. That may mean that we will place dogs as pets anywhere from 6 months – 24 months old if we feel they wont enjoy or excel at their job.
- Our dogs are raised in the environment they will serve. We consider our “JR Trainers” (our children) to be an advantage to our service pups in training. We aren’t just “training” them to perform; our dogs literally grow up sharing their lives with our children.
- We are very selective with the dogs we choose to work with. From our litters we will select the very best prospects to move forward with. Not every dog is meant to be a service dog and we take that notion very seriously. Our dogs are selected not only for temperament but also for health. This means before being placed with a client our dogs have had their hip OFA certifications, eyes examined by an ophthalmologist & their hearts cleared by a cardiologist.