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By Bob Taylor, President & Founder of Dog Wish, 
According to the ADA, effective on March 15, 2011
New ADA Service Animal Regulations were issued that were specific for people with developmental disabilities.
1. Those new regulations include: § 36.104 Definitions. “Service animal means any dog that is individually trained to…provide non-violent protection or rescue work.”
A BRIEF HISTORY
Besides being the founder and creator of The Dog Wish, Incorporated I also am:
• A Multi (18 time) National Dog Sports (Police Dog) Champion,
• A 12 time member of the German Shepherd Dog Club Working Dog Association World Team, who competed, representing America, at the World Championships, and produced some of the highest scoring dogs there.
• A 35 year California Superior Court K9 Expert, who assisted in writing the current “Dangerous Dog” laws and regulations, and trained over 1,000 “dangerous” dogs.
As such, in the past 35 years of work, I created a higher standard for working Police typed dogs, known as “Passive Protection” dogs. These dogs were trained to do Police work without being violent towards anyone. For years we did demonstrations for the Southern California Police Officers Association at County Fairs, etc., where we could literally:
• turn our dogs loose in crowds of thousands of people,
• and let them do searches,
• find criminals, and stop them,
• and transport them back to us,
• in the midst of thousands of people,
• without any fear of one of the dogs hurting anyone.
Of course we were used by the community to promote positive image for Police K9s, and to show insurance companies that working Police dogs could be safe and non-vicious.
In the early 2000s, I had a client who suffered from deafness. She had 13 serious ear surgeries, and because of her disorder, also lived “in home” with very few friends. In a heartwarming experience, I trained a dog for her that changed her life. Some months later that dog was stolen from her by a gang of thugs that saw her walking the dog, beat her up, and took the beautiful animal. She never saw the dog again, and it broke my heart. I decided that, that incident was never going to happen to one of “my” kids, again. I started providing non-violent, Passive Protection dogs for Dog Wish Recipients.
EXPANDING OUR PASSIVE PROTECTIVE WORK
At the same time our work with the disabled community has grown greatly, and 
this year we have already been honored as “America’s Leading Charity” by two National Organizations. In evaluating our present program for our Service Dogs, we have realized in a new way that one of the primary considerations, which separates Dog Wish Service Dogs from other dogs, is that our dogs are NOT trained after the fundamental type used by other organizations. We do not produce a “Guide Dog” mentality or behavior in our dogs. Our Service Dogs are actually more like “Police K9” dogs in that they operate out of a passive protective concern for their handlers.
• We specifically look for a Police type K9 in every dog we select.
• We choose dogs for training that possess an empowering vigilance in watching over their handlers.
• The primary concern for each dog is to passively protect their handler:
1. From them selves
2. From their environment
3. From hurtful actions and behaviors
4. From brain and body disorders
5. From harmful habits
6. From others
What was once a single focus, has evolved to become the primary focus of our dogs “work”. We now realize that the superior style, separating our dogs from other Service typed dogs is that our dogs are chosen, trained, and work to be:
• more focused,
• tuned-in,
• vigilant,
• and diligent,
Because they see themselves as there to provide the protection their handlers need and deserve.
DISABLED PEOPLE NEED FAR MORE PROTECTION THAN OTHERS:
• They are targeted and attacked many times as often as those without disabilities by criminals, sexual predators, bullies, and dangerous animals.
• They are prone to behaviors that are critical and possibly dangerous like eloping, running into traffic, getting lost, mis-using home appliances improperly, falling, etc.
• Because of their disabilities and disorders they are vulnerable and prone to behaviors that demand detection and protection such as seizures, melt downs, blood sugar and pressure problems, etc.
These problems demand the passive protection from others that can be exhaustive
and cause critical problems for their care-takers. A dog trained to be focused, vigilant, and diligent, who is genetically instinctive, and given advanced special conditioning, to provide a passive protection, that only they could provide, can be an invaluable asset for any handler.
In Conclusion
This type of work needs to be done by experts, people who have been training hundreds of dogs for this type of work for years. This is NOT the kind of work that should be attempted by someone with good intentions, and lack of experience. This is what we do, what we’ve done for 35 years, and what we have proven our superiority in National and International competition against over 10,000,000 professional competitors from around the world, and for top Corporations in their efforts to protect the top VIP Clients in the world.
At Dog Wish, since we train our dogs for people with disabilities, we also train them to compensate for their handler’s inability to handle them properly. Our dogs perform as they have been trained, NOT according to their handler’s abilities to make them work.
If you desire more information contact Bob Taylor at 760-662-3767, http://www.dogwish.org, or bob@dogwish.org.
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