Benefits of an Assistance Dog
- As a motivator for communication
- Help build independence.
- Having a four legged friend to talk too
- Helps build confidence
- As an ice breaker – people tend to want to talk to the dog which provides an opportunity for interaction.
- Helps with exercise
Some tasks an Assistance Dog can do…
- Can go everywhere with the child – including school, shopping centres etc
- Pick up dropped items
- Fetch required items – phone, drink bottle, bag etc
- Alert you to door bells, phones etc
- Open fridges, dryers
- Be a friend
- Makes you feel happy
- Listens
- Therapeutic
The Assistance dog program is also open to children who through circumstance (accident etc) are now working through rehabilitation. They are a great motivator. Aussie Pooch Mobile has now been involved with Variety Qld for the past eight years and we are on the lookout again for a special child to provide an Assistance Dog to.
An assistance Dog will take approximately 6 – 12 months to train and the cost to train a dog like this is approximately $25,000. Variety Queensland provides appeals for special children
throughout Queensland and Aussie Pooch Mobile Dog Wash helps fundraise for these appeals. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank the supporters of the Assistance Dog Program.
Without these supporters, and the kind donations of the public it would be impossible for us to achieve the result of placing these dogs with their deserving recipients and changing their lives.
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