Our mission is to provide assistance dogs with the highest success of placement ratio, by providing close supervision and training to puppy raisers; eliminating the stress of the kennel environment training period.
Through the use of operant conditioning (clicker training), dedicated puppy raisers and staff can begin our puppy's training career at a very early age. We feel puppies trained using operant conditioning will begin their career sooner providing their handler with more years of service.

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How Is PPAD Different Than Other Service Dog Organizations?

1. Positive Partners seeks to provide custom trained dogs to service the need of each person with disabilities. Other organizations train standardized dogs and people who receive their dogs must have a disability that fits the dog's capabilities.
    

2. PPAD trains their dogs utilizing operant conditioning with a training protocol developed by Clicker Training Pioneer, Morgan Spector (author of Clicker Training for Obedience).
    

3. Partners will not kennel dogs for an intensive training program after a year of home life with a puppy raiser. Positive Partners will utilize the puppy raiser as part of the training program that begins in puppy hood.
    

4. And, we help people train their own service appropriate dogs for personal assistance work.