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Client and Dog intake

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  • Contact us online: select Contact at the top of the page.

  • Contact us by phone or email and we'll help you complete the form.

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Initial Assessment 

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Schedule a dogs' Initial Assessment virtual or on-site for us to observe and evaluate:

  • Temperament testing-Calmness, confidence, social tendencies.

  • Behavior Evaluation- observing reactions to stimuli, obedience, impulse control, and consistency.

  • Task Potential- observing confidence, and ability to perform.

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Summary and Recommendations

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  • Demonstration of the dogs necessary traits.

  • Provide suitable recommendations for new skills.

  • Discuss program costs, registration, and tools.

  • Check your email for confirmation and information.

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Start Training​

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  • In or around your home.

  • Use a secure online meeting platform, Live caption translation is available in Español or other language.

  • Spoken Language: English, so that everyone can participate.

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Psychiatric Service Dog Owner Training Program

Canine Assistance Puerto Rico helps individuals to alleviate the impacts of cognitive or psychiatric disabilities on their life.  

 

Dogs meet behavior and hygiene standards that are essential to their health and wellbeing, and allow access to public spaces.
 

The choices your dog makes as a pet, matter as much as what tasks we train the dog.  

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  • Training is practical

  • Tasks are clinically proven to alleviate difficulties, give a new and positive perspective on some daily activities that are fun and rewarding helping individuals live more resilient and independent lives with a trained & certified service dog. 

  • Dogs are trained to give timely warnings to the handler which can greatly reduce and even prevent a medical crisis altogether.

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The bond between a Psychiatric Service Dog "PSD" and their handler must be mutually beneficial to impact the training, instead of blindly training obedience, cues, or commands. â€‹â€‹

P1 

Foolproof Pet Training 

For all dogs at any stage    

 **Not a Service Dog course

Prerequisite: None 

Stop wasting time focusing on obedience training, that don't get your dog where they need to be emotionally. Instead keep your dogs safe, motivated, and learning in their home environment. Create a mutually beneficial relationship between  human and canine resulting in a dog that listens to you a majority of the time.  Learn and master:

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Benefits:

 

  • Observation skills of canine communication through body language, behavior, and sounds to lessen their stress

  • Walking confidently on a loose leash with an impeccable recall instead of getting pulled from place to place 

  • How to make nutritional changes for optimal health and learning​​​

  • Behavior training to stop the chaos, jumping, nuisance barking, and more to lessen the dog's stress or perceived stress

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*No certificate at this level.​

P2

Foolproof Pet Training 

For all dogs at any stage      

**Not a Service Dog course

Prerequisite:  Part 1 

Based on the mutual bond and communication style created in Part 1 training, we can now start building social connections to influence and teach in such a way your dog chooses to cooperate over 95% of the time without treats, or harsh tools. 

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Benefits:​​

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  • Change the behavior of fearful, reactive, or over-excited dog(s), to be able to listen under low to medium distractions

  • Train a dog capable of walking on or off leash in various situations or distractions

  • Resolve excessive panting, jumping, restlessness, pacing, biting, destructive, or over-excitement behaviors

  • Properly socialize your dogs to greet and pass those they know, other animals, and strangers politely​​

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​* AKC certificate is earned at this level - not a service dog course.

P3

Service Dog Owner Training

Qualified Applicants only     

**Prerequisite Part 1 & Part 2

(over-excitement issues must be resolved to qualify)

After receiving the Gold Standard for canine behavior award, pets can qualify to learn to read their handlers micro movements and respond accordingly as a trained Service Animal.  We only accept dogs that have successfully completed Foolproof pet Training Part 1 and Part 2 due to intensiveness and consistency of training.  The results are life changing!

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Benefits:​

 

Dogs Learn and Master:​

  • Detection and intervention on early symptoms of anxiety and emotional distress.

  • Keeping people from surprising the handler from behind.

  • Alleviating symptoms that include: difficulty sleeping, increased irritability, fear, hyper-vigilance, flashbacks, panic attacks, anxiety, unwanted thoughts or obsessions, excessive movements or sounds, that occur at home or in public for an individual.

  • Excellent impulse control under the highest of distractions. 

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*Service Dog Training Certificate is earned at this level.​ Certification is Not required, however documentation is vital to your future successes as a Team.

Meet some of our
Service Dog Graduates!

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"So I started with T. at Canine Assistance after having the worst training experience elsewhere, and I promised myself that the next course I took had to be with someone who would allow me to be part of the training and experience the entire process.  So even though my dog already had the basic training she continued to be hyper-active not knowing the commands or following the commands and behaving rebelliously.
 
So my dog and I started at Canine Assistance at phase 1 when she was about 7 or 8 months old and we continued working on her behavior until now that she was able to pass her service dog exam. so Props to me, Props to T, and Props to my dog,  because she's now a well behaved dog and I am very grateful for that because the change has been tremendously satisfying and successful.  My dog is now calmer more attentive, able to analyze the purpose of what is happening, to continue with her work, and be able to complete a task for me.  
 
So Canine Assistance has allowed me to be apart of a free detrimental training environment by really motivating that dog to be to have self control, understand and express itself towards it's owner so I can guarantee 100% that I would recommend this program to anyone.  It would even be very beneficial for your living and not just because of interest  of having your dog go to an advanced regular training and see them work on commands but not working on the mental health of your dog  and knowing your dog more deep than what it should be."

Team Kiiva

© 2025 by CANINE ASSISTANCE PUERTO RICO, LLC. (CAPR) Reserves All Rights to change or discontinue at anytime any aspect or feature containing our information.  CAPR is run by a team of highly qualified professional canine behavior consultants, covering Puerto Rico and the United States. We have been helping owners train their dogs to become the perfect pets or qualified service animals, since 2020. CAPR uses nutritional principles from The Forever Dog (TFD) resource written by Rodney Habib & Dr. Karen Becker. TFD reveals new science to navigate the pet food industry and delay aging in our dogs to provide long, happy, and healthy lives for any budget or feeding style. Behavior training principles from The Calming Signals Approach certified by Nordic Education Centre for Ethical Dog Training. Service dog tasks clinically proven to reduce or eliminate psychiatric symptoms.

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