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Service Dog School of America
“Where Lives Get Better & Miracles Happen”

Buying a fully-trained service dog is offten the least expensive option for adults and children with disabilities. Getting a real service dog costs you less in the long run.

How Service Dog School of America Compares to 30,000+ Dog Trainers Nationwide
  • There are over 30,000 dog trainers in the United States.
  • ● Less than 5 providers nationwide offer fully trained psychiatric service dogs for sale.
  •   ● Only 1 provider (approximately 0.0033%, or three-thousandths of one percent, of all U.S. dog trainers):
  •   ● Offers a 100% money-back guarantee
  •   ● Delivers dogs with off-leash public access obedience
  •   ● Trains only psychiatric and medical service dogs
  •   ● Provides photo and video documentation of every dog placed
  •   ● Customizes each dog to the client’s condition, routine, and needs
  • Three-thousandths of 1% of all dog trainers isn’t a statistic — it’s Service Dog School of America.

Service Dog School of America a provider of service dogsservice dog benefit Comprehensive Side-by-Side Comparison of Service Dog Providers

Feature / Provider Service Dog School of America Little Angels Errorless Canine Service Dogs Inc. Canine Companions
Business Type For-Profit Nonprofit For-Profit Nonprofit Nonprofit
Years in Business 27 years 19 years 10 years 37 years 50 years
Breed Specialization Golden Retrievers Labs & Goldens German Shepherds Rescue Dogs Lab/Golden Mix
Sells Service Dogs (Not Free) ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No ❌ No
Off-Leash Obedient Dogs ✅ Yes ❌ No ❌ No ❌ No ❌ No
Medical Alert Dogs ✅ Yes ⚠️ Limited ✅ Yes ⚠️ Some ❌ No
Psychiatric Service Dogs For Sale ✅ Yes ⚠️ Limited ✅ Yes ❌ No ❌ No
Photo Evidence of Past Dogs ✅ Yes ⚠️ Some ❌ No ❌ No ✅ Yes
Nationwide Availability ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ⚠️ Limited ✅ Yes
Known for Safety and Transparency ✅ Highest in Category ⚠️ Moderate ⚠️ Moderate ✅ Yes ✅ Yes
Client Effort / Responsibility ✅ Turnkey ⚠️ Some involvement ⚠️ Medium involvement ❌ High burden ❌ Long onboarding
Support After Placement ✅ Lifetime ⚠️ Limited follow-up ✅ Offered selectively ❌ Minimal contact ⚠️ Policy-dependent
Stress to Client ✅ Low ⚠️ Medium ⚠️ Medium ❌ High ❌ High
Daily Life Impact ✅ Major independence ⚠️ Some assistance ⚠️ Moderate utility ❌ Narrow function ⚠️ Emotional support
100% Money-Back Guarantee ✅ Yes ❌ No ❌ No ❌ No ❌ No
Approximate Investment $32,000–$65,000 $60,000 $45,000 Free (Waitlist) Free (Waitlist)
Overall Value Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐⭐☆☆☆ ⭐⭐⭐☆☆ ⭐☆☆☆☆ ⭐⭐☆☆☆
How to Get a Service Dog from Service Dog School of America
  1. Read this entire page to understand how we work and what to expect.
  2. Visit our Facebook page to see hundreds of dogs we’ve trained.
  3. Submit a Service Dog Application using the form provided.
  4. Call (916) 701-6458 to speak with us.

Service Dog School of America is the leader in reducing the cost for those with disabities needing an ADA-Compliant Medical or Psychiatric service dog.

Why a Service Dog Is the Best Investment You’ll Ever Make

For someone living with a disability, no investment brings more lasting impact than a service dog that provides constant support, confidence, and independence. For many, getting a service dog is the only thing that will work to relieve their suffering and allow them to live a normal life.

Getting a service dog is about making somebody more productive, relieving their suffering, or saving a life. Just like you would want the best medical doctor or other top experts helping you or your loved one, you also want the most qualified and experienced service dog trainer.

service dog benefit Why Discerning Buyers Choose Service Dog School of America. . . .

✅ Not A Charity You Or Your Child Don’t Qualify For Anyway Unlike nonprofits with years-long waitlists and inflexible bureaucracies that make it difficult, if not impossible, for most disabled children and adult to get an assistance dog even if you have all the money in the world, we are a lot easier to deal with and more reliable.

✅ Only provider selling fully-trained off-leash obedienct service dogs — Every dog is trained to be reliable, safe, and responsive on and off-leash so your service dog won’t run away from you and get hit by a car because it wasn’t really trained.

✅ AKC Golden Retrievers — The most intelligent, gentle, and emotionally intuitive breed, hand-selected and custom-trained for psychiatric and medical tasks.

✅ Transparent training history — No other provider shows decades of public documentation of every dog trained. Facebook.com/davethedogtrainer

✅ 100% Money-Back Guarantee — Service Dog School of America is the only service dog provider offering a full refund if the client is not completely satisfied. This is the safest deal in the industry.

✅ No one loves dogs and people more — Our training method is solely based on using love, affection, friendship, compassion, and kindness.

Low-cost and free service dogs for the disabled.

Why are service dogs so expensive?

Service dog training is the Olympics of Dog Training.  99.99% of professional dog trainers could not train a service dog for the life of them.There are very few excellent dog trainers with the credentials, education, training and experience to be able to provide a reliable, quality and consistent experience to disabled clients.

You tell us what your service dog should cost. 

It takes a year to train a service dog, sometimes longer.

A) 365 days training X 24 hours = 8,760 hours

B) There are 8,760 hours in the year it takes to train a dog

Meaning, If we charge $46,000, we make $5.13 per hour before expenses.

At $63,510, we make $7.25/hour (the Federal Minimum Wage) before expenses.

At $131,400, we make $15.00/hour before expenses.

If we charge $175,200, we would make $20.00 per hour (the minimum wage for fast food workers in California) per hour before expenses.

Service dog training is more about helping people than training dogs or getting rich. 

Service dog school of America makes sense of how much a service dog costs.

The Five Dollars or so per hour includes. . . .

The $5.00 or so per hour includes all expenses: the best puppy money can buy, veterinary care, food, rent, insurance, toys, dog beds, transportation, utilities, a 6.4 acre facility, a three-year health guarantee, a 100% Money-Back guarantee, two college degrees, 57 years experience training dogs, 27 years professionally.

Juniper the Miniature Australian Shepherd Service Dog

How much do service dogs cost?

service dog benefitsTrained Public Access Service Dogs For Sale

service dog benefitYou get a well-bred trained service dog where everything has been done right from the day your puppy left the breeder. 

service dog benefit 3-year Health Guarantee on all our AKC registered dogs.

service dog benefitThe most well-trained dogs available anywhere at any price.

Golden Retriever Service Dogs for psychologists

 

The day you get your service dog, you will be able to take your dog to work with you, to school, to the mall, to church, you can travel with your dog, anywhere you go you can take your dog. You get a trained dog to perform tasks that assist you with your disability. Training and support is provided for the life of your service dog.


How much service dogs cost

Is the cost of a service dog too high if you got one and you were a lot less depressed and anxious, or if you became a happier person?

How much do service dogs cost?

TRAINED SERVICE DOGS FOR SALE

LOCATIONS IN THE SACRAMENTO REGIONDog Training in the Greater Sacramento Area and Surrounding Cities and Counties Near Sacramento, California

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LOCATIONS IN THE SF BAY AREA and NORTHERN CALIFORNIA– Dog Training in the San Francisco Bay Area-San Jose, the Monterey Bay Peninsula and Northern California

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On February 28, 2026, it will be 28 years David Baron has been giving dog owners what they really want. . . .

 

CRAZY GOOD DOG TRAINING not offered by other dog trainers.