🐾 Exceptional Canines™ Service Dog Training

Unlock Independence. Build Confidence. Live Freely — Together. At Exceptional Canines™ In-Home Dog Training, we specialize in transforming extraordinary dogs into life-changing service partners.
Our customized programs are tailored to meet the unique needs of individuals living with physical, psychiatric, and medical challenges — from mobility and cardiac conditions to PTSD, autism, and seizure disorders.

Whether you need your dog to retrieve medication, alert to heart-rate changes, or guide you safely through a crowd, we design each program to fit you, your lifestyle, and your dog’s potential.

  How It Works

Training begins with a comprehensive evaluation of your dog’s temperament, learning style, and handler goals. From there, we build a custom service-dog roadmap that progresses through:

1. Foundation Training – obedience, public access, and handler focus

2. Task Development – one or more trained, ADA-qualified tasks

3. Public Access Certification & Maintenance – confidence in any environment

Training duration: 6 to 24 months (depending on the number of tasks, the dog’s temperament, and the handler’s consistency)
Investment range: $2,500 – $25,000 over time (includes all stages + handler coaching options)

Service Dog Categories

 Medical & Dysautonomia Support (POTS, EDS & Similar)

Dogs trained for individuals with autonomic disorders can:

• Detect heart-rate or blood-pressure changes and alert the handler
• Retrieve medication, water, or essential items
• Apply Deep Pressure Therapy (DPT) to aid circulation and reduce anxiety
• Provide stability during position changes or fainting episodes
• Wake or alert handler after a syncope event
• Offer counter-balance and momentum assistance
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 Psychiatric & Emotional Support Tasks

Helping individuals with PTSD, anxiety, depression, OCD, and panic disorders:

• Interrupt crying, dissociation, or freezing behaviors
• Provide grounding and DPT during panic episodes
• Guide to a safe exit or quiet space
• Create a protective barrier (“watch my back,” crowd control)
• Respond to routine reminders and medication alerts

Hearing & Auditory Assistance

For those with partial or total hearing loss, our dogs can:

• Alert to alarms, doorbells, phone rings, and sirens
• Notify the handler when someone approaches or calls their name
• Provide environmental awareness and confidence in public

   Mobility & Stability Support

Built for handlers needing balance or mobility assistance:

• Counter-balance and brace for stability
• Assist with position changes and transfers
• Provide forward momentum up inclines or stairs
• Retrieve canes, walkers, and mobility aids
• Pull wheelchairs or open doors on command

 Medical Alert & Response

For individuals managing conditions like diabetes, epilepsy, or heart conditions:

• Detect seizure onset, high/low blood sugar, or cardiac changes
• Retrieve emergency medication or phone
• Alert others for help or activate a dog-friendly phone
• Provide safety and comfort after a medical episode
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Environmental & Everyday Tasks

Our service dogs can also perform practical daily tasks that restore independence:

• Open/close doors, cabinets, and drawers
• Retrieve named items (phone, wallet, water, etc.)
• Turn lights on and off
• Carry groceries or laundry
• Clear rooms and block hazards
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❤️ Customized Task Training

Every disability is unique. We build task plans specific to your needs 

from alerting to cortisol spikes to guiding around obstacles or retrieving life-saving medication. If you can dream it and it improves your quality of life, we can train it.