About
ModDog was started to address the loneliness crisis.
The loneliness epidemic is one of the most consequential public health crises of our time — driving absenteeism, accelerating disease, and shortening lives.
Service dogs and therapy animals are a proven intervention. The evidence is substantial: statistically significant reductions in PTSD symptom severity, improvements for seizure disorders, Parkinson's disease, and a range of neurological and psychiatric conditions. Animals work.
And yet less than 1% of service dog demand is being met. Clinicians who want to prescribe animal-assisted interventions face a system with no standards, no verification, and no accountability.
So the default answer — from hospitals to hotels, landlords to airlines, offices to insurers — is no. It doesn't have to be.
The problem isn't that people don't want well-trained dogs. It's that there's no way to prove a dog is well-trained.
You don't need a service dog. You need a dog no one can say no to.
94M
pet-owning households in the US
10M
puppies born each year
500K
service dogs in the US
Harvard Medical School cohort
"Your project is both dear to my heart as well as providing a service which will invariably reduce human suffering."
"As a CEO of a large psychiatric group working in hospitals and outpatient — we brought pet therapy into locked mental health units and not only the patients but staff find it essential and look forward to the pet visits so much."
"I absolutely agree on the position of the impact of pets with several loneliness and trauma driven health challenges."
"I clearly see the value of an AI tool that offers structured, personalized training support."
"You're hitting on one of the critical aspects regarding training a dog — more than half the battle is training humans on how to train dogs and keeping the humans on task."