Service animals must be trained to perform a specific task for the benefit of its disabled owner/handler. This training may be done by either a certified professional trainer, a non-certified professional trainer, a friend, a family member, or the person with the disability.
The tasks could include the following or similar tasks:
- Navigation for the blind
- Hearing assistance for the hearing impaired
- Rescue work for owners and handlers whose condition may cause emergency conditions which may require fetching help
- Pulling a wheelchair
- Assisting with mobility by giving physical support
- Fetching dropped items
- Preventing or interrupting impulsive or destructive behaviors
- Reminding the individual to take medicine
- Providing safety checks or room searches for persons with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Interrupting self-mutilation
- Removing disoriented individuals from dangerous situations
- Assisting during medical incapacitation, such as during a seizure
- Alerting the individual as to a medical issue, such as an oncoming seizure, blood
- sugar drop, or other medical condition onset
- Alerting individuals to the presence of allergens
- Other similar or related tasks
Are you an owner of an assistance animal?
The Service Animal Registry of California invites you to have your assistance animal registered in order to designate its status. We also encourage you to take our online classes so you can be fully aware of your rights and gain more knowledge about your support animal.
Finally, we present to you our book entitled, “ASSISTANCE ANIMAL LAWS: LEARN YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING SERVICE ANIMALS, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMALS, THERAPY PETS, AND OTHER DOGS, CATS, AND ASSISTANCE ANIMALS” to provide you with a complete education on assistance animals.
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