Dogs - Healing Hearts Comfort Dogs

Working Facility Dogs

A facility dog is a dog that, directed by qualified staff within a designated facility, utilizes its special skills and training in animal-assisted interventions to help providers achieve specific treatment or program goals.

Facility Dogs work in churches, assisted living/nursing facilities, hotels, educational institutions, rehabilitation centers, funeral homes, retirement homes, police and fire departments, court house and child advocacy centers and other public sector organizations in need of a facility dog.

Dogs selected to become facility dogs are highly motivated by contact with people, affectionate, gregarious, of moderate-to-low energy and drive, and calm and quiet indoors and are trained as service dogs. If you think you would like to bring a puppy into your home and foster and train this puppy to be a facility dog, please contact us at .

If you would like to request a facility dog for your organization, please please contact us at .

Facility Dogs in Training

These pups are currently in training to be a facility dog. A facility dog is a dog that, directed by qualified staff within a designated facility, utilizes its special skills and training in animal-assisted interventions to help providers achieve specific treatment or program goals. If you think you would like to bring a puppy into your home and foster and train this puppy to be a facility dog, please contact us at .

Comfort Dogs

Comfort Dogs offer non-judgemental companionship that can help during tough times. Comfort dogs can help boost a person’s mood and decrease stress. The animal’s presence can enable a reprieve from negative or sad thoughts a person may have and even sitting in silence near a dog is known to bring a sense of peace and calm. Our furry friends can’t help but bring smiles to the faces around them! If you think that you have the type of dog (over 2 years of age) that would make a great comfort/therapy dog, please reach out to .

If you would like to have one of our comfort dogs visit your facility, please reach out to .

East Aurora Paws Program

East Aurora School District 131 has launched a district-wide comfort dog program - EA Paws - to serve the students at all District 131 buildings. Healing Hearts Comfort Dogs is providing weekly training to prepare the dogs and handlers for the Canine Good Citizenship certificate and test the dog temperaments to work with children. If you want more information on the Aurora EA Paws Program, here is their website: https://www.d131.org/ea-paws-program/.