Service Dogs come in all shapes and sizes.
Qualify your canine assistant
to be a Service Dog.
Service Dog Identification & Registration
Service Dogs Australia provides the latest in Service Dog equipment, which includes a vest with service dog patches embroidered on each side, wallet card, a collar tag and certificate identifying your dog as a service dog.
Your disability qualifies your dog to be a service dog. We supply a service dog identification package, making it easier for you to be in public with your service dog.
The term Service Dog encompasses a broad range of assistance animals that have been trained to assist their owners with their disabilities. Australian Laws requires public and privately owned establishments such as restaurants, hotels, retail stores, taxicabs, airplanes, theaters, concert halls, and sports facilities, to allow people with disabilities to bring their service animals onto business premises in whatever areas customers are generally allowed.
SDA recognizes that most persons in Australia may have some form of disability.
People with disabilities rely on their dogs to assist them in many different ways. Ensure your dog will be allowed to accompany you wherever you need to go by properly identifying him/her as a service dog with an Identification Package provided by Service Dogs Australia.
Having identification on your dog is not mandatory.
Our Service Dog package includes quality equipment, vests with embroidered Service Dog patches, documentation, certificates, plastic wallet cards (photo optional), metal collar tags and a booklet of articles with rules and definitions explaining the Laws in simple terms.
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Service Dog Identification Kit
Our Service Dog package includes quality equipment, vests with embroidered Service Dog patches, documentation, certificates, plastic wallet cards (photo optional), metal collar tags, Department of Justice wallet cards and a booklet of articles with rules and definitions explaining the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 in simple terms.
There is no such thing as a Governmental Authority or Agency "certifying" Service Dogs in Australia
Can My Dog Be a Service Dog?
There is no restriction of size, breed or age for a service dog.
Once the following two requirements are met (the owner has a disability and dog is trained to assist the person) the owner and the service dog may not be denied access to any public facility. With your dog wearing a service dog vest you will always be welcomed.
Many individuals rely on their canines to help them in a variety of ways. To ensure that your canine can accompany you wherever you go, it is imperative to properly identify them as a service dog. The dog must behave in public. Service Dogs Australia offers identification packages to ensure your pooch goes wherever you go.
At Service Dogs Australia, we want to provide you and your canine everything you need to be accepted in society. Even though it may not be required, we recommend procuring a letter from a physician acknowledging that you are under his or her care for a disability requiring a service dog (we do not need to have a copy of this letter). Under the Human Rights codes of Canada you do not have to disclose your disability to anyone.
What does it take for a Dog to Become a Service Dog?
There is NO legal requirement for a Service Dog to be trained by a Professional Trainer in order to have "public access" rights. For some reason, Service Dog organizations profess that ONLY dogs professionally trained have public access rights.
A person with a disability has the right to train his or her own Service Dog, either with the help of a trainer or without. Once the following two requirements are met (owner has a disability and dog is trained to assist the person) The owner and the service dog may not be denied access to any public facility. With your dog wearing a service dog vest you will always be welcomed.
At Service Dogs Australia, we want to provide you and your canine everything you will ever need to be accepted in society. You will not have any difficulty as long as your dog is trained and behaves.
Service Dogs Australia can assist you in your
desire to have your dog identified as a service dog.
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Meet Wrinkle, an owner trained service dog. Complete with vest patches, collar, leash, collar tag, certificate wallet card.
Testimonial
First of all Paul & Service Dogs Australia provided excellence service , helpful & kind and always there for us. I have had Maya my husky mix as my service dog with Service Dogs Australia for 4 years. I took Maya to Brazil 2014-2015 for 6 months and we just returned to the USA. We had an easy flight on American Airlines. We had our own seats, & an easy entrance through customs into Brazil. Then I brought Maya & my border collie puppy back to the USA & another easy entrance with her service dog card & vest. My new puppy Francisco received training under Maya and now he is also a service dog. We are so grateful. Thank you so much Service Dogs Australia.
Pamela Sophia Rays & Maya
Australian Human Rights
SBN: 978-1-4606-8602-7 (Print) 978-1-4606-8607-2 (HTML) 978-1-4606-8612-6 (PDF)
Excerpts from the Australian Human Rights Documents
191: People with disabilities who use service animals to assist them with disability-related needs (such as anxiety) are also protected under the definition of “disability” in section 10 of the Code. Service animals do not have to be trained or certified by a recognized disability-related organization.
191: People with disabilities who use service animals to assist them with disability-related needs (such as anxiety) are also protected under the definition of “disability” in section 10 of the Code. Service animals do not have to be trained or certified by a recognized disability-related organization. Service providers and others who receive such documentation should not use their own assumptions and observations to second-guess this verification.