A facility dog is trained to work at a designated location with a variety of people. Typically, this type of dog is placed in a hospital or with a community service provider. Like our other dogs, Facility Dogs are task-trained, but the tasks they perform are done for someone other than their handler. Those tasks may include:
- Modeling hospital procedures for a child
- Motivating hospital patients for physical activity
- De-escalating emotions to allow productive communication
- Lying across or near a person to provide deep pressure therapy or a sense of pressure
- Providing comfort in stressful situations
- Serving as a communication tool at public demonstrations
Click on the image below to see a news feature about one of our Facility Dog Teams.
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