Sacred Paws Service Dogs
Veterans Impacting Veterans Lives! Training the Trainer and Healing the Healer.
12/20/2019
PTSD and service dogs: Beneath the surface | Shannon Walker | TEDxMtHood Fox News radio stations seem to think Shannon Walker is the go-to expert voice representing the power of a service-dog in the life of combat veterans. No won...
12/20/2019
How IEDs may be physically causing PTSD Scar tissue found in the brains of combat veterans who suffered from PTSD could mean that many cases of the disorder are caused by physical trauma
12/13/2019
Happy Holidays from Sacred Paws! While you're on Amazon, think (puppies). ;-)
12/11/2019
Service Animals and Emotional Support Animals
II. Service Animal Defined by Title II and Title III of the ADA
A service animal means any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability. Tasks performed can include, among other things, pulling a wheelchair, retrieving dropped items, alerting a person to a sound, reminding a person to take medication, or pressing an elevator button.
Emotional support animals, comfort animals, and therapy dogs are not service animals under Title II and Title III of the ADA. Other species of animals, whether wild or domestic, trained or untrained, are not considered service animals either. The work or tasks performed by a service animal must be directly related to the individual’s disability. It does not matter if a person has a note from a doctor that states that the person has a disability and needs to have the animal for emotional support. A doctor’s letter does not turn an animal into a service animal
Happy Sunday,
We are still working on the website. It should be ready soon. Thank you for your patience. I am learning a lot as this isn't my skill set.
12/07/2019
12/06/2019
Press Release...This Just In:
Introducing Sacred Paws newest Board member. Please give a warm welcome to Ava Lyons
Copy of Ava Lyons Press-Release FOR RELEASE ON 12/6/2019 AT 2:00pm Contact: Jeff Bizzaro Phone: 860.299.5698 Email: [email protected] Sacred Paws Service Dogs Brings on Youngest Member 11 year old Ava Lyons is a game changer for SPSD and here’s why... Chaplin, Connecticut, December, 6t...
A deposit has been made and It has been confirmed. As of today, Emanuel Homestead Goldens in Woodstock CT is holding one male pup to become part of the Service Dog Training Program at Sacred Paws Service Dogs...I am working on number two. Looking for sponsors that would like to name the puppy after a fallen warrior or family service member. It will be the pups forever name. This all has been made possible by our committed and generous supporters. God Bless each and every one of you. 2020 is going to Awesome!
12/05/2019
Click here to claim your Sponsored Listing.
Healing Paws
Sacred Paws Service Dogs is a registered 501 c-3 non profit charitable organization. EIN# 84-2476280. We exists to train service dogs and place them at no cost, in order to assist military veterans that have been diagnosed with trauma related mental and physical disabilities as a result of their military service. Our motto is Heal The Healer.
Our clinical approach is primarily holistic cognitive based mindfulness therapy, utilizing canine assisted desensitization and intervention techniques that are evidence based and medically proven to mitigate negative symptoms of post traumatic stress, military sexual trauma, major depression and anxiety disorders. We also have the ability to train our dogs to assist those veterans with mobility impairments in order to help them live a more productive lifestyle.
Paws Not Pills!
We adhere to and promote Assistance Dog International (ADI) training standards. It typically takes 2 1/2 to 3 years to properly train a service dog from birth to placement. Depending on what type of service, and tasks the individual dog is being trained for and the needs of the veteran. There are a number of considerations and qualifying factors prior to starting your path towards a service dog:
Category
Contact the organization
Telephone
Website
Address
95 Lincoln Street
Middletown, CT
Opening Hours
| Monday | 9am - 5pm |
| Tuesday | 9am - 5pm |
| Wednesday | 9am - 5pm |
| Thursday | 9am - 5pm |
| Friday | 9am - 5pm |