Fi-Do’s Training Program
It takes two years and approximately $25,000-30,000 to successfully train a service dog.
Our quality breeder provides healthy and sound pups who start their training at just three days old. A young dog in training needs to pass high standards of health, behavior, obedience, and skill-training in order to become a working service dog. Ongoing data and testing are documented in each dog’s file as required by Assistance Dogs International (ADI).
Once a dog is ready to graduate, we match it with a waiting applicant who has passed a screening process that meets ADI standards.
Clients are given a service dog for a six-month trial to continue training and bonding.
After this period, if the team has bonded and works well together, the training continues throughout their partnership.
Raise a graduate.
Volunteer puppy raisers offer their homes, time, and love to service dogs in training. Using positive reinforcement, each dog learns specific tasks along with basic obedience and social skills.
If you can’t take on full time puppy raising, maybe you can help in other ways. We are always on the look out for dog lovers who want to contribute their time.
Train a facility dog.
If periodic wellness visits are not enough. Perhaps you would benefit from hosting a “facility dog” longterm. Facility Dogs are usually paired with rehabilitation professionals, caregivers or educators and utilize a Canine Companion to improve the mental, physical or emotional health of those in their care.
Perhaps the greatest value of a Facility Dog is the unconditional love and attention the dog gives to the clients and patients who they encounter.
While we are very cautious and screen facilities and handlers very carefully, if you qualify, you become part of an extended family of facilities, trainers, handlers and dog lovers who share the healing power of dogs with your clients for a lifetime. Call us to find out more.
Meet a graduate.
We train our puppies in public to prepare them to work as healing dogs in community facilities and as service dogs with public access rights.
Thanks to their strong focus, Hawaii Fi-Do’s healing and service dog graduates can meet you where you are.
