Canine Partners is a charity devoted to training assistance dogs for disabled people. http://www.caninepartners.co.uk/ Most assistance dogs are trained from puppies and so it seemed unlikely that eight year old Sparky would be a suitable candidate to be trained as an assistance dog to help his owner when she became ill. Fortunately, clever Sparky made it through the trainning http://www.getbracknell.co.uk/news/s/2095033_dog_that_loads_the_washing_machine
