What this is
ServDog is a private registry. It is not a government agency, is not affiliated with any provincial program, the Canadian Transportation Agency, or the ADA, and registration does not create or confer any legal rights. Scout gives general information from verified pages, not legal advice.
The answer, for your province, when you need it.
Scout is an assistant that has read every page on this site and nothing else. Ask it what a business may ask you in Alberta, what a landlord in Ontario can do, whether an airline will take your dog — and it answers from the law, names the page, and tells you when it doesn’t know.
For account holders. Registering is free and takes five minutes. Scout is information, not legal advice.
How Scout is different
Most assistants answer everything. Scout answers what we can stand behind.
Only verified pages
Scout can only see pages we have checked against the statute or the commission that wrote it. A page still under review is invisible to it. So is the rest of the internet.
Names its source, every time
Every answer ends with the page it came from, and that page carries the government document it quotes. You can check it in one step.
Says when it doesn't know
Ask about a province we haven't verified, or a question our pages don't cover, and Scout says so — and points you at the nearest page — rather than guessing.
What people ask it
Real questions, in the words people use. Scout answers for the province you name.
It knows the difference between a tenant and an applicant.
The answer to “can my landlord make me get rid of my dog” in Ontario depends on whether you have already moved in. Scout knows that, because the Ontario page says it — with the section number.
Signed in, Scout knows what your dog is registered as, its province and what’s in its Taskbook, and answers for that dog — so “what should I show them” gets an answer about your dog, not a generic one.
What Scout knows about your dog, and what it never sees
Signed in, six things from your record reach Scout. Nothing else does.
What it is given
- Your dog’s call name
- The category you recorded it as
- The province on your profile
- Its registration number
- Its registration status
- The name and one-line description of each Taskbook task
If you have more than one dog, Scout is given all of them and asks which you mean.
What it never sees
- Your documents — every one of them
- Your emergency contact
- Photos of your dog
- Date of birth, microchip number, breed, colour, weight
- Your name, email, phone or address
- The disability-related need on a task, the trainer’s details, the dates and the hours
Scout is never told your diagnosis, and it will not guess at one or ask.
What Scout will not do
Because an assistant that would is the kind you should not trust.
Give legal advice.It gives you what the law says and where. What to do in your case is yours, or a lawyer's.
Tell you your dog is a service dog.Training does that, and your province's definition. Scout will tell you what the definition is.
Write you a letter.A letter that carries weight comes from a health care professional who knows you. Scout is not one.
Make something up.If our pages don't say it, Scout doesn't say it. That is the whole design.
Register free. Scout comes with it.
Five minutes: your dog’s name, a photo, and what it is trained to do. Then ask Scout anything on this site, from wherever you are standing.
Register your dog — free