Career as an Assistance Dog Trainer

There are six types of assistance dogs:

Diabetes Hypo-alert Dogs
are trained to identify and alert
when their owners's blood sugar drops to a level that results in a hypoglycaemic epsisode.
Cancer Detection Dogs are trained to identify cancer and disease.
Guide Dogs for the Blind and visually impaired – help owners to use stairs, cross roads, avoid obstacles on busy streets etc.
Hearing Dogs alert severely and profoundly deaf people to sounds such as smoke alarms, crying babies, telephones and alarm clocks.
Disability dogs carry out tasks such as pressing emergency buttons on phones and opening and closing doors
Seizure alert dogs recognise signs that their owner is about to have a seizure.

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Career as an assistance dog trainer