CrittersWork Service Dog Partners, Inc.

Become a Service Dog Mentor

2010-11-17T12:17:00.000-08:00

CrittersWork selects potential Service Dog training candidates from local area rescues.

A potential Service Dog In Training (SDIT), must be exposed to many different stimuli and environmental things. The SDIT Mentor accepts the responsibility for the socialization and basic training of the dog in their care. The Mentor supports the SDIT while in their care, except for medical treatments. This process may last from two to six months, until the dog is ready to be brought to the training center and enter advanced training.

The process of becoming a Service Dog In Training Mentor is pretty simple.

#1 You must love living, and working with dogs.
#2 You must be willing to attend classes at least once a month at our training center with your SDIT.
#3 The dog must live in the house with you.
#4 You must be willing to bring the dog to CrittersWork group outings.
#5 You must be willing to take the dog with you as many places as you can in your regular life.

Our Mentors are trained and have 24/7 telephone or in person support from CrittersWork during their mentoring process.

What the Mentor teaches the Service Dog In Training:

Perfect house manners.
An acceptance of all types of people and other animals.
No soliciting of attention or treats from humans.
No sniffing while working.
A tolerance of strange sights, sounds, odors, and other things in a wide variety of public settings.
To ignore food that has been dropped on the floor, anywhere.
Work quietly on leash, with no fooling around, barking or other behaviors.
When the dog can eliminate, and where, these dogs are trained to eliminate on cue.
Basic obedience commands.

To become a SDIT Mentor, please contact us at: volunteerinfo@CrittersWork.org

Helping the rescued dog become a life altering partner to a challenged individual can be one of the greatest things you will ever do. Handing that leash over to your dogs new life partner is the best feeling in the world.

NOTE: Expenses incurred while Mentoring a SDIT are tax deductible, when the receipts are turned in to CrittersWork Service Dog Partners, Inc.

Help Save working K-9's from Heat Stroke

2010-06-23T11:16:00.000-07:00

Pesticides

2010-05-05T15:15:00.000-07:00

Flea and Tick Product Ingredients: What You Should Know

Train, Tune-up, Love

2010-05-05T09:24:00.000-07:00

It is time at CrittersWork to start scheduling our Puppy Raiser training sessions.

Our Service Dog Selection Seminars will start in June.

Anyone wishing to volunteer with the selection process, please contact us.

Where's the Truth?

2010-05-05T09:15:00.000-07:00

We should always question the marketing!

Ghostbusting in Paxil Birth Defect Litigation

I have LONG had issues with the writing of prescriptions for "off label" use. These prescriptions are being dispensed for likenesses that the drugs were never tested for!

Paxil Birth Defect Litigation - First Trial A Bust For Glaxo

Medicating America's Children

2010-05-05T09:08:00.000-07:00

Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers in the US - Part I

Dan Olmsted - Autism's Dick Tracy

Environmental toxins and learning disorders

Vaccines

2010-05-05T08:30:00.001-07:00

Historic Data Shows Vaccines Not Key in Declines in Death from Disease

Study clearly demonstrates that aluminum found in vaccines can cause neurologic damage

The Vaccine War: A Forgotten History

Questioning the CDC 36,000 Deaths from Seasonal Flu Figure

I have followed this writer for years, and through many years of living with my own dogs and observing our boarders over their lifetimes, I am in complete agreement with Cathrine O'Driscoll's views on vaccination.
Science of Vaccine Damage

Thimerosal

2010-05-05T08:18:00.000-07:00

Thimerosal: A vaccine ingredient’s toxic legacy

Service Dog Selection Seminar

2010-02-18T09:51:00.001-08:00

There will be a seminar on March 27, 2010.

This will be our first, introduction seminar to explain about service dog candidate selection.

This introduction will be held to ten participants, and begins at 2pm.

Please contact us for an application form.

Thank you.

Volunteer Service Dog In Traning (SDIT) Mentor

2009-07-29T07:09:00.000-07:00

Where can you Volunteer and receive Double the Benefit for your Efforts?

Did you know you can Save a Dog and at the same time Empower a Person?

SDIT Mentoring for CrittersWork Service Dog Partners does just that!

The dog you mentor for CrittersWork will have the best opportunity of becoming a Service, Assistance, Hearing, Psychiatric Assistance or Therapy Dog for some person who desperately needs the skills this dog can provide.

Your efforts will not only give this dog a forever home that creates an extremely special relationship for the person and the dog, this dog becomes a life changing partner.

Recent statistics report that more than 19 percent of our population over age five suffer from a disability. Together we can benefit the daily lives of many people by partnering them with a Service Dog.

This all starts with YOU, Service Dog In Training Mentors are an essential part of our organization. The SDIT Mentor fosters a service dog candidate under the age of sixteen months from anywhere between four to fourteen months.

Be part of the solution!

Service Dogs are capable of retrieving items, opening and closing doors, turning lights off and on, pulling wheelchairs, stabilizing a person who needs assistance walking, alerting the hearing impaired to important sounds, and even searching for a person afflicted with Alzheimer's or Autism.

Help us Make changes in Two Lives!

You'll be glad you did.

423-552-1416

Email: volunteerinfo@critterswork.org

Help us break the cycle of destruction of adoptable dogs and at the same time empower the life of a disabled person.

Zeke

2009-01-20T11:28:00.000-08:00

Chocolate Lab, donated to the cause because he was allowed to grow to the ripe old age of 18 months with no training.

We are currently in possession of a totally disconnected overweight goofball who is strong enough to pull a vehicle when attached to a leash.

Basic training started on January 18. I am currently embroiled in taxes so this week will be very sporadic with training.

Starting a Nonprofit Today

2009-01-20T11:24:00.000-08:00

If you want to experience a meltdown, start swimming upstream toward developing a nonprofit organization.

You have the heart, resources, experience, and anything else that is needed to make it go, then you start wading through the State and Federal regulations and forms.

Today I am awaiting the CP-575 from the IRS. After an hour on the phone on hold waiting for a human to assist me, I found that the form is (in the mail).

I have been working part time since last May trying to get all of this stuff behind me.

One day at a time....

New Service Dog Training Center

2008-12-31T19:19:00.000-08:00

We are starting a nonprofit Service Dog Training center in East Tennessee. We need volunteers!

Volunteers Needed

2008-12-31T19:10:00.000-08:00

Service Dog Training is accomplished mostly by volunteers. We need individuals who can be dedicated to a training project long term to help us.

Service Dog Training is very satisfying work. Just think about helping to bring a good dog along to create an assistance partnership with someone in need.

Service Dogs bring more than just assistance to their partnerships. They open up their Team Partners world, enabling them to become more self sufficient, and open to social experiences.