At Canine Partners, we train dogs to help transform the lives of people with physical disabilities, most of whom are wheelchair users. Our Partners live with a variety of different disabling conditions, some of which are from birth and others have been acquired during their lifetime. Each Partner has different levels of ability and as such different needs.
We train our dogs to respond to a wide range of commands, enabling them to carry out a vast number of tasks for their Partner and all applicants individual needs are taken into consideration when the 'matching' process takes place.
Our dogs are mostly from the retriever breeds such as Labradors, Golden Retrievers and crosses of these breeds. We choose dogs for their ability and desire to help and train our dogs using the most up to date reward based methods.
Some of the applicants who have applied to Canine Partners have lived for many months and even years without leaving their home and for them a Canine Partner is truly a life enhancing experience - literally opening doors enabling them to enjoy a greater independence. Others have an active life but need some additional help in order to enable them to continue living life the way they want to.
Please click on the links on the left, to learn more about how we train our dogs and read some case studies of existing Partnerships. We hope that this site contains all the information you need, but if you would like to talk to someone further in confidence, please do not hesitate to contact our Partnership Office on 08456-580-480 or email them direct by clicking here.
