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Facility Dogs For Sale

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Compass Key Facility Dogs

Compass Key is pleased to announce that we are expanding our dogs for sale program to include fully trained facility dogs.

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What is a facility dog? 

A facility dog is a highly and specially trained dog that partners with a professional to provide support to people in settings such as health care, education, first responder, and legal settings. These dogs are skilled in performing tasks that promote relaxation and emotional well-being, such as engaging in play, encouraging social interaction, and offering a calming presence during challenging times. Their unique ability to connect with people makes them invaluable companions in environments where support and healing are essential.

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Some settings our facility dogs may work at include: 

  • Courthouses, police stations, fire stations, and first responder settings

  • Schools to support mental health and wellness, and classrooms for children with special needs

  • Mental health settings with psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, guidance counselors, and other professionals

  • Occupational speech and physical therapy centers, hospitals, and health centers

  • Residential centers for the elderly or individual with disabilities

  • Child advocacy centers, at risk youth centers, and victim advocate centers

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Read more about the facility dog program in our blog.

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Facility Dog Training

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Learn more about facility dogs

Compass Key facility dogs receive the same standard of care and training that our service dogs do. They are selected as puppies from reputable breeders by our professional trainers specifically for temperament traits suitable for work as a facility dog. Puppies are then raised in a highly structured environment by a professional service dog trainer, and receive intensive socialization, house training, crate training, and house manners training.

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Facility dogs complete the same Phase 1: Basic Skills and Phase 2: Advanced Skills that our service dogs do, and then they also complete Phase 3: Setting Skills and Phase 4: Setting Access Training. Phase 3: Setting Skills and Phase 4: Setting Access Training are geared towards the specific setting that each facility dog is intended to work in. All facility dogs are screened for health and wellness by a veterinarian prior to sale.

Learn more about facility dog tasks

Facility dogs can be trained in a wide variety of tasks, and are dependent on the type of setting each dog will be working in.

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Phase 3: Setting Skills can include:

  • Emotional support based tasks

    • Responsive to signs of emotional stress

    • Deep pressure therapy

    • Visit: head on lap, or paws on lap

    • Passive grounding (turn and sit between patient’s legs in chair or on floor)

    • Active grounding (nudge patient’s hand)

  • Retrieval, targeting, and tricks to promote engagement

    • Play fetch

    • Spin, speak

    • Hand target

  • Medical procedure demonstrations

    • Calmly allow medical procedures such as blood draws or shots to be demonstrated on dog

  • Mobility support

    • Walk calmly with patients in heel, including up and down stairs

    • Provide mobility support to patient rising/sitting in chair

  • Fine motor rehabilitation tasks

    • Take kibble gently from patients developing fine motor skills

    • Stand or sit calmly while patient attaches/removes leash from collar, opens/closes clasps on dog’s vest, or zips/unzips pockets on dog’s vest

  • Large motor rehabilitation tasks

    • Play fetch with patients

    • Play gentle tug with patients

    • Allow patients to brush dog

    • Respond to various hand signals from patients

  • Speech/cognitive tasks

    • Respond to verbal cues from patients

    • Calmly stay by patient as they read to dog

    • Stand or sit calmly as patient names and points to parts of dog

What can a facility dog do?

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Interested in a Facility Dog?

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