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Service Dog Organizations
Assistance Dog Club of Northern Virginia Vienna, VA 22180 email: assistdogs@gmail.com tel: 646-250-9250 Goal is to provide a supportive community where Assistance Dog handlers can learn, help and socialise with other Assistance Dog teams. Meetings and Social Gatherings are held on a monthly basis at various locations throughout Northern Virginia. Blue Ridge Assistance Dogs 8620 Smith Lane Manassas, Virginia 20112 tel: (703)369-5878, (703)591-1185 Provides service dogs for people with disabilities and social therapy dogs. Dog Ears and Paws P.O. Box 334 Sykesville, MD 21117 tel: (410)655-2858 Trains assistance and therapy dogs for people with special needs using positive reinforcement training approach. Will train owner's dog if it passes evaluation. Dogs With a Mission P.O. Box 40266 Washington, DC 20016-0266 tel: (202)363-1190 cell: (202)669-8316 fax: (202)363-6595 info@DOGmission.com Trains service dogs and hearing dogs for people with disabilities. Fidos for Freedom, Inc. P.O. Box 5508 Laurel, MD 20726 tel: (410) 880-4178, TTY: (301)570-7570 Email: office@fidosforfreedom.org Contact person: Office Manager or Executive Director Hearing dogs, service dogs, and therapy dogs K-9 Support Inc 8528-F Tyco Road Vienna, VA 22182 email: info@k9support.org tel: 703-821-1779 K9 Support Inc supports working dogs of all kinds, but specialized in supporting military working dogs overseas via care packages and specialized equipment purchases. Military Working Dog Foundation A non profit organization that assists the Department of Defense Military Working Dog Center in finding suitable placement for military working dogs. Service Dogs of Virginia, Inc. 4783 Turkey Sag Road Keswick, VA 22947 tel: (434) 975-3770 plaw@cstone.net Provides assistance dogs to people who use wheelchairs. Service Dogs Invisible Disabilities 1911 Key Blvd. #568, Arlington, VA email: joan.esnayra@comcast.net We do not train service dogs for individuals. We are an educational, advocational, research and training facilitation group. Shore Service Dogs, Inc. PO Box 2251 Salisbury, MD tel: 410-742-1775 Email: info@shoreservicedogs.com Trains mobility Service Dogs and social Therapy dogs. All dogs certified with a minimum of CGC and TDI.
Search and Rescue Organizations
Dogs EAST tel: (540)361-1900 Wilderness search and rescue organization for Mid-Atlantic Region. Volunteer training is provided in the Northern Virginia area. Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue Team 4600 West Ox Road Fairfax, VA 22030 tel: (703)815-5523 FEMA qualified task force provides emergency disaster response services. Mid Atlantic DOGS PO Box 841 Rockville, MD 20851 tel: (301)948-2840 Provides search and rescue dog and handler teams upon request by official agencies. Also provides education and training for the teams. National Association for Search and Rescue 4500 Southgate Place, Suite 100 Chantilly, VA 20151-1714 tel: (703)222-6277 fax: (703)222-6283 nasar@nasar.org
Therapy Organizations
Blue Ridge Assistance Dogs 8620 Smith Lane Manassas, Virginia 20112 tel: (703)369-5878, (703)591-1185 Provides service dogs for people with disabilities and social therapy dogs. Fairfax County Pets on Wheels Fairfax Area Agency on Aging 12011 Government Center Pkwy, Suite 720 Fairfax, VA 22035-1104 tel: (703)324-5406, TTY: (703) 803-7914 Provides companionship to people in nursing homes and hospitals in Fairfax County. Always looking for volunteers. Fidos for Freedom, Inc. Debbie Gavelek P.O. Box 5508 Laurel, MD 20726 tel: (410)880-4178, TTY: (301)570-7570 fidos@erols.com Hearing dogs, service dogs, and therapy dogs National Capital Therapy Dogs, Inc PO Box 1103 Mt. Airy, MD 21771 Volunteer organization that provides Animal Assisted Therapy and Animal Assisted Activities to healthcare facilities in the DC Metro Area. National Center for Therapeutic Riding Burtonsville, MD Specialized therapeutic horseback riding for people with disabilities. People Animals Love (PAL) 3201 New Mexico Avenue, NW, Suite 350 Washington, DC 20016 tel: (202) 895-1395 Fax: 202-274-1995 Email: Mize@peopleanimalslove.com Provides companionship to people in nursing homes and hospitals. Pets-DC tel: (202) 234-PETS Assists people with AIDS to care for their pets. Pets on Wheels - Charles & St Mary's County Director: Michael Capps tel: (301) 392-0155 Email: CCPetsOnWheels@aol.com Pets on Wheels of Montgomery County tel: (301) 424-0656 x 104 Provides companionship to elderly and disabled in Montgomery County Pets on Wheels of Prince George's County Heartland Health Care Center 6500 Riggs Road, Hyattsville, MD 20783 tel: (301)853-3330 Provides friendly pet visitation for residents and senior citizens of nursing care facilities. Waggin' Hearts Therapy Dogs Sperryville, VA tel: 540-987-9632 email: wagginhearts@yahoo.com Therapy dog group visiting in Rappahannock, Madison, Warren, Page & Fauquier counties. Also have Books & Barks Reading Partners Program visiting several schools & libraries in these areas.
Mailing Lists
Canine Times Breaking research, behavior topics, human-animal interaction subjects (service dogs, programs and so forth), books, health, web news, general interest. Published two times each month. Very limited commercial content is allowed. To subscribe, send email to majordomo@ListService.net and in the body of the message, put subscribe caninetimes. GUIDE-DOG-POL Guide Dog Policy discussion list. An unmoderated and open forum for persons who use guide dogs and service animals and for those interested in learning more about the issues involved in the use of Guide Dogs or service animals. To subscribe, email GUIDE-DOG-POL-request@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU and in the body of the message put Subscribe guide-dog-pol Firstname, Lastname MetroPets comment: Very good. Low traffic, but very pertinent subjects discussed. Internet Service Dog Mail List To join, email with the following info: majordomo@acpub.duke.edu Body of text: subscribe service-dogs OC-Assist-Dogs Operant Conditioning Training with a focus on positive reinforcement for Assistance Dogs. Members provide guidance and training tips for anyone interested in using positive reinforcement methods for service dog training. Owner-Trained Assistance Dogs (OT-Adogs) Dana Marshall 13409 Cedar Circle E. Sumner, WA 98390 tel: (360) 897-9015 ot-adogs@danawheels.net service-dogs This e-mail list, service-dogs, is meant to talk about any topics concerning any assistance/service dogs who aid individual people in some direct way. Most work for a person who is disabled. Therefore signal or hearing dogs, dogs trained to help the physically disabled, therapy dogs, seizure dogs, and guide dogs are included. In fact, the only dogs not In fact, the only dogs not specifically included are herding dogs, protection or guard dogs, confirmation or show dogs, obedience competition and purely pet dogs. Topics about training or using such dogs, access issues, legislative or other 'control' issues are all welcome. To subscribe, send email to majordomo@duke.edu with subscribe service-dogs in the body MetroPets comment: High traffic. Very interesting discussions of issues associated with service dogs.
Links
American Dog Trainers Network - Service and Assistance Dogs Assistance Dogs International ,Inc. Delta Society National Service Dog Trainers List International Association of Assistance Dog Partners United States Department of Justice ADA Business Brief: Service Animal
Dog Trainers
The Animals' House 20789 Great Falls Plaza Unit 170 Algonkian Parkway Sterling, VA 20165 Phone: (703) 433-1300 Will train therapy dogs and mobility assistance dogs. This facility is wheelchair accessible. The Cultured Canine (703) 481-2561 Email: lisaflynn@culturedcanine.com Lisa Flynn will train mobility and hearing assistance dogs. Phi Beta K-9 School for Dogs tel: (202) 986-1147 Penelope Brown - private, one-on-one instruction (Pen is also MetroPets Dog Advisor for Ask Sage) Will train some assistance dog skills. Uses positive reinforcement. The Clicker Training Center email: clickertrain@erols.com Corally Burmaster will help train assistance dog tasks.

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