Assistance dog training

About us:

At Zenergy K9 Training Co, our head trainer Hailey requires an Assistance dog. His name is Remington and he is a German Shorthaired Pointer. Remy is a medical and psychiatric assistance dog, his takes include (but are not limited to): deep pressure therapy, early migraine alert, blocking, light guiding, item retrieval, constant contact.

We extend our training to help other Assistance dog teams achieve a high level of training and specific tasks for the owner.

Additional information

The DDA (1992)

Assistance dogs are trained to help their human manage the effects their disability/ies have on their lives. They work with their disabled handler to provide important medical support.

An Assistance Dog must be trained to mitigate the effects of their handler's disability, the disability must be confirmed by a medical professional and meet the criteria of the Australian Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA).

This Act also protects a handler's right to have their Assistance Dog with them in public places just like any other piece of medical equipment.

We operate under the federal law and under our own own set of behaviour and training standard which go above and beyond this law.

The Disability Discrimination Act (1992) defines an Assistance Dog as:

"Section 9(2) For the purposes of this Act, an assistance animal is a dog or other animal:

(a) accredited under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the accreditation of animals trained to assist a persons with a disability to alleviate the effect of the disability; or

(b) accredited by an animal training organisation prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph; or

(i) to assist a person with a disability to alleviate the effect of the disability; and

(ii) to meet standards of hygiene and behaviour that are appropriate for an animal in a public place."

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Is an assistance dog right for you?

Additional Information

Would having an assistance dog, benefit you?

Assistance dogs make a huge positive impact to the lives of their owners/handlers. Having and/or training an assistance dog is not for everyone.

'The definition of disability for the purposes of the Disability Discrimination Act is

total or partial loss of the person's bodily or mental functions
total or partial loss of a part of the body
the presence in the body of organisms causing disease or illness
the presence in the body of organisms capable of causing disease or illness
the malfunction, malformation or disfigurement of a part of the person's body
a disorder or malfunction that results in the person learning differently from a person without the disorder or malfunction
a disorder, illness or disease that affects a person's thought processes, perception of reality, emotions or judgment or that results in disturbed behaviour.'