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Welcome to Summit Assistance Dogs, where we are changing lives four paws at a time. We provide highly skilled mobility, hearing and professional therapy dogs for people living with disabilities.
Summit Assistance Dogs is thrilled to announce our newest project providing Service Dogs for Veterans!
We are looking forward to receiving applications from men and women who have served in our Military and are in need of a service dog or therapeutic home companion to provide support for mobility and hearing disabilities, and/or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
If you have friends or relatives whose lives could be enriched by a canine helpmate, please share our email with them to begin their application process. As always, these dogs will come to applicants at no charge.
We look forward to our amazing dogs Serving Those Who Served!
Margaret Spicer lives in Puyallup, WA and has been an applicant since 2009. She is waiting for a dog to help with her mobility by providing balance. Margaret does fine when holding someone’s arm, but a dog would give her more independence. She feels that having a service dog would provide emotional support, too. “With my disability I do feel cut off from people… With a service dog I’d feel more confident and less isolated.
Special note about service dogs for wheelchair users
Summit currently has very few applications for service dogs for clients who use wheelchairs and need assistance with tasks such as retrieving items, opening/closing doors, tugging clothing off, etc. We have several dogs in training who are going to be ideally suited for this type of placement. This means that the wait time to be matched with a dog may be much shorter than the usual 2-5 years. If you are a wheelchair user looking for a service dog, we encourage you to begin the application process by contacting info@summitdogs.org.
Summit Assistance Dogs is a non-profit organization founded in 2000 in response to the overwhelming need for more trained service dogs. More than 55 million Americans live with various disabilities, and the national average waiting time to receive a service dog is two to five years.
Since our founding, we have changed 52 lives by matching highly skilled service dogs to people with various disabilities and training the dog and the person to work together as a team. We are proud of our 52 graduate pairs and are anxious to help many more. We are located in Anacortes, Washington, but we offer this life-changing companionship to applicants throughout the Northwest.
Assistance dogs empower people with disabilities to lead lives of greater independence by performing tasks that otherwise would require a human caregiver. Among the many tasks these dogs can perform are opening and closing doors, picking up dropped items, retrieving an emergency telephone, helping take clothes off and alerting a person who is hard of hearing to important sounds like a smoke alarm, a phone ringing or a child crying.
Perhaps more important than the tasks performed is the relationship itself. Our graduates tell us that their dogs open doors for them in so many ways. A dog’s capacity for unconditional love is a wonderful gift that helps reduce depression, loneliness and anxiety. Through partnership with an assistance dog, people often experience a joy and confidence that can change their lives.
We are so grateful for and extend a huge thank you to all the people who help support us in carrying out our mission – our donors, volunteers, puppy raisers, trainers, staff, board members, clients and applicants. We could not do what we do without the generosity of all the people who help make this organization successful.
Please get in touch with us if you have any questions or want to learn more about how you can support Summit Assistance Dogs or apply for a service dog. Call (360) 293-5609 or e-mail info@summitdogs.org.
Where to Find Us
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 699
Anacortes, WA 98221
Facility Address:
12549 Christianson Rd.
Anacortes, WA 98221
News
Released Dogs
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Newsletter
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Open House
Stop by our facility during one of our open houses. Meet the staff, some dogs in training and learn more about Summit and our mission.
Monday, May 21st, 3-5 p.m.
Thursday, August 16th, 3-5 p.m.
Tuesday, November 6th, 3-5 p.m.
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