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2. Autism assistance dog - Wikipedia

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   Autism assistance dogs are trained to perform specific tasks to help their owners live independently and navigate the world. Autism assistant dogs often perform tasks like DPT (Deep Pressure Therapy), back/front block, crowd control, alerting to sounds such as timers or a fire alarm, medication reminders, self-injury interruption, retrieving dropped items and other tasks to help calm anxiety ...

3. Therapy dog - Wikipedia

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   Golden Retrievers are often used as therapy dogs due to their calm demeanor, gentle disposition, and friendliness to strangers.. A therapy dog is a dog that is trained to provide affection, comfort and support to people, often in settings such as hospitals, retirement homes, nursing homes, schools, libraries, hospices, or disaster areas.

4. Assistance dog - Wikipedia

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   An assistance dog pressing a button to open an automatic door Hearing-assistance dog being patted on its head. An assistance dog is a dog that receives specialized training to aid an individual with a disability in navigating everyday life. Assistance dogs can be trained by an organization, or by their handler.

5. 13 best therapy dog breeds - AOL

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   Any dog can train as a therapy dog, but some breeds are naturally calm, intelligent and up to the task of lending a helping paw. Great with small children, Cavaliers love people, and don’t keep ...

6. Animal training - Wikipedia

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   A trained dog competing in dog agility. Basic obedience training tasks for dogs, include walking on a leash, attention, housebreaking, nonaggression, and socialization with humans or other pets. Dogs are also trained for many other activities, such as dog sports, service dogs, and working dog tasks.

7. Central Ohio police on forefront of using, training therapy ...

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   Mike Paulins, a Columbus police officer who helps train the therapy dogs, said they have various uses both internally helping officers in the department and externally with people in the community ...