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Memberships
Six-year-old Susanna Smith is one of 35
applicants currently waiting for a Summit assistance
dog. The average waiting time for an applicant is 2-5 years,
a wait we hope to reduce over time as we are able to
train more dogs. Your financial support can help us meet
the needs of Susanna and other applicants. Read
the rest of Susanne's bio.
Welcome! Summit Assistance Dogs is a nonprofit organization, located in Anacortes, Washington, that provides highly-skilled mobility, hearing and therapy dogs for people with disabilities.
Summit was founded in 2000 in response to the overwhelming need for more trained service dogs. There are more than 55 million Americans living with various disabilities, and the national average waiting time to receive a service dog is 2-5 years.
Assistance dogs empower people with disabilities to lead lives of greater independence by performing tasks that would otherwise require reliance on a human caregiver. These tasks might include retrieving dropped objects, opening/closing doors, retrieving an emergency telephone, alerting a person who is hard of hearing to sounds, etc. Perhaps more important than the tasks performed, however, is the relationship itself. Depression, loneliness and anxiety tend to diminish, and it is the dog’s capacity for unconditional love that is often the greatest gift. Through partnership with an assistance dog, people often experience a joy and confidence previously unattainable through other means. Summit currently trains mobility, hearing, and therapy dogs.
We hope you enjoy browsing through our site. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you might have at (360) 293-5609 or info@summitdogs.org.
We would like to say Thank You to all the people who help support the organization in carrying out our mission. Our donors, volunteers, puppy raisers, trainers, staff, board members, the wonderful clients and applicants. We could not do what we do without the generosity of all the people who help make this organization what it is today.
Open House
People are invited to visit our training facility at 12549 Christianson Road in Anacortes on Wednesday, Feb. 3, any time between 4 and 6 p.m. to learn about our organization, meet our puppies and see service dog training demonstrations.
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