What We Do
- Public Interaction and Education
- Learn about Hearing and Service Dogs and how to greet them in a public place.
- Our Training Program
- We use operant condtioning and rewards to positivley train our dogs.
- Our Speaker Series
- Our experts are involved in public eduaction and training internationally. Find out more about having a speaker come to your next event.
- Laws
- We are an active voice for promoting the laws about Assistance Animals.
- Why we need you!
- THSD invests $17,500 in training each Service Dog team and each Hearing Dog team. We rely on your donations to pay for the cost of training. Please donate today!
- What We Do
- THSD is a non-profit organization that trains Service Dogs and Hearing Dogs to assist people with disabilities.
- Hearing Dogs are trained to alert their deaf owners by touch and lead them to everyday sounds, such as a door knock, smoke alarm or telephone.
- Service Dogs assist individuals with physical disabilities by opening doors, fetching wheelchairs, retrieving dropped items, operating light switches, moving paralyzed limbs and getting help.
- THSD adopts all of our dogs from animal shelters and rescue leagues. Utilizing positive reinforcement, we train the dogs, pair them with their new partners and then train them as teams - all free of charge to the recipients.
