Preparing Your Dog for Real-World Support

What most people don’t realise about assistance dogs

You don’t train a dog to “behave nicely in public” — you train them to stay calm, responsive, and safe in chaotic, distracting, often stressful environments.

That’s what public access training is.

At Trusted Paws UK, we work with dogs and their handlers to build the kind of behaviour that holds up not just in theory, but in supermarkets, buses, GP surgeries, airports, and cafés.

What Public Access Training Actually Looks Like:

• Learning to ignore food, noise, other dogs, and strangers

• Settling quietly under tables or in queues

• Navigating shops, stairs, lifts, and busy pavements

• Staying focused under pressure — even when the handler isn’t

Our training is task-based, exposure-driven, and always built around your real-world routine. Whether your condition includes PTSD flashbacks or autistic sensory overload, your dog’s behaviour needs to stay consistent — even when yours can’t

Who We Work With:

• Adults 18+ with a primary diagnosis of autism, PTSD, ADHD, or related conditions

• Based within 2 hours of London

• Committed to regular training and documentation

  
  

Our programme runs in five practical stages, including both online coaching and in-person public access sessions. We follow Assistance Dogs International (ADI) benchmarks and stay grounded in the Equality Act 2010.

Public access isn’t a checkbox. It’s the backbone of a working assistance dog.

And we train for it like it matters — because it does.