Assistance dogs welcome

Assistance dogs compensate for disabilities and make their people more independent, secure and happy. Besides guide dogs, there are many types of assistance dogs. In a human-dog team, they take on lifelong supportive functions for people with physical, neurological or sensory impairments. They are specially trained to act independently.

In addition to the guide dog for the blind, which is well known, assistance dogs also support people with limited mobility, seizure disorders such as epilepsy or narcolepsy, hearing impairment, autism and PTSD, allergies and diabetes, and delayed development. New fields of action are still being added on a regular basis, where assistance dogs enable their humans to make countless health and social improvements through their faithful assistance.

The district of Waldeck-Frankenberg sees itself as an assistance dog-friendly municipality - and would like to work hard in the future to raise awareness of this particular issue even more in order to also further increase the acceptance of assistance dogs in society.