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Disability. Assistance dogs. Therapy dogs. Indie dogs. How HeartDogs trains.
From the basics to the research - everything in one place.
What they do, who they help, and how they're trained to help individuals in need.
From understanding what an assistance dog is to getting one in India - everything about assistance dogs in one place.
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How trained dogs support people in care, schools, hospitals and beyond.
Therapy dogs visit. Facility dogs are embedded. Both change lives. Here's how they work and where they're needed in India.
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Understanding disability, support needs, and what trained dogs can do.
Disability in India - its scale, its types, its legal framework, and the practical gap that HeartDogs exists to address.
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India's original dog - hardy, intelligent, and underestimated land race.
Why HeartDogs chose to work with rescued Indies - and what makes them suited to assistance and therapy work.
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How dogs learn, and how HeartDogs builds its programme.
From force-free training principles to foster-trainer model - how a rescued dog becomes a working dog.
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Paid skilled work and the women foster-trainers at the heart of HeartDogs.
Women in rural Karnataka who live with and train the dogs - and why this model changes lives on both ends of the lead.
Explore Foster-Trainers →Questions we get asked. Answered honestly.
From how to get an assistance dog to how HeartDogs selects and trains - everything you might want to know.
Read the FAQ → FootNotes BlogInsights and explainers. One post at a time.
Our growing library of articles on assistance dogs, therapy dogs, disability, training, Indie dogs and the HeartDogs approach.
Read FootNotes Blog →Conversations from the ecosystem.
Video conversations with people building the disability support ecosystem in India and outside - trainers, researchers, practitioners.
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