An assistance dog is primarily a practical helper for a person with a disability, a great support in ensuring self-care, self-sufficiency and independence, and is also a partner in times of discomfort. It can partially replace the help of a personal assistant or family member.

An assistance dog is prepared for a specific applicant, exactly according to their needs, possibilities, abilities and requirements.

The necessary actions that the dog learns for the benefit of the person with a disability are often developed in cooperation with specialist doctors and physiotherapists so that the person with a disability uses the learned actions of the dog and at the same time, according to their possibilities and abilities, develops their fine and gross motor skills and verbal and non-verbal communication. It has been proven not only in child clients that a canine assistant can satisfy the emotional needs of people with disabilities, influence the socio-emotional area, and help develop social relationships and adaptive and social behavior. Most of the assistance dogs provided are also therapy dogs – they help with warming up spastic muscles, as mentioned above, with the development of fine and gross motor skills, etc.

An assistance dog can help a person with a disability with common, but for some people with physical disabilities too demanding tasks, such as: help with opening and closing doors or drawers, help with undressing and dressing, turning lights on or off, helping with serving various objects that have fallen to the floor or bringing and serving various objects – e.g. prepared food or drinks from the refrigerator, medication from a drawer, etc., finding and bringing a ringing mobile phone, helping with handling a light mechanical wheelchair – pulling the wheelchair, straightening the head or returning a fallen hand to the joystick of an electric wheelchair,  covering or uncovering the blanket on the bed, helping with shopping – e.g. putting things from the shelves into a basket or trolley, carrying and delivering messages – e.g. taking and handing over a shopping list to the saleswoman, taking and handing over a wallet to the cashier, taking a notebook to a teacher at school, calling for help, etc., etc. – in short, each dog is trained exactly according to the needs of a specific client – ​​it is a so-called tailor-made dog.

The dog is able to learn to recognize various everyday objects and, for example, on the command “Find, bring the keys”, it can find and hand over the keys. It can also find and bring back a lost item outside. A light, laser pointer is used to identify objects that a person with a disability does not need to give and the dog often searches for, or is unable to pronounce the name of the object (speech disorder). The person with a disability points to the desired object with a laser “dot” and the laser helps the dog to orient itself as to what object his master needs to give.

If the person with a disability and his family have limited options in terms of housing size, it is possible to choose a small breed for training (e.g. a miniature schnauzer, a medium poodle, etc.), however, it is necessary to respect the abilities and possibilities of a small breed dog and it is not possible to demand actions from it that do not correspond to its physical proportions, such as pulling an inv. a stroller or carrying a shopping bag or school bag, giving objects from heights that the dog cannot reach or jumping out of could be dangerous for him (slippery surface), opening and closing heavy doors, etc.

In case of allergies, it is possible to choose a dog with a so-called anti-allergic coat for the applicant (e.g. poodle, labradoodle, etc.).