WELCOME TO NEW HORIZONS SERVICE DOGS

New Horizons Service Dogs is a non-profit 501(c)(3)organization that partners trained dogs with the disabled, mostly in the area of wheelchair and mobility assistance. We are headquartered in central Florida and provide service dogs to disabled clients primarily throughout the state of Florida.

Please explore our website. You'll find out more about our organization, what a service dog is and how to treat one, how to become a puppy raiser, how to apply for a dog, and how you can help us. We also have pictures of pups-in-training, graduate dogs, and informative links.

A service dog is similar to a guide dog that assists a vision-impaired person. Service dogs are trained to do a wide variety of tasks that range from retrieving objects to opening doors, turning off lights, pulling a wheelchair -- any task that can make the disabled handler's life easier by taking the place of a human caretaker. By federal law, any service dog, no matter its function, is allowed full access to all public facilities. In Florida, we are fortunate enough to be one of the states who give legal access to trainers with pups-in-training as well.