Category: Dogs In Training
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Pepper – Service Dog in Training
Pepper is a Labrador Retriever that is in for Custom Training. Here are some videos of her training.
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Creating a Task List
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) specifies that for a dog to be considered a legal Service Dog, it must be individually tasked trained to mitigate a disability of a person with a disability. What behaviors do you want your dog to perform that will help mitigate your disability? Examples…
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Dolly -Mobility Support Dog
Dolly is one of our home-bred pups that is back for Custom Training. One of her most important tasks will be to provide mobility support for her owner who presents with intermittent episodes of dizziness when she becomes unstable. Here are a few videos of Dolly during training using a…
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Dolly – Task Training
“Press” “Call Help” & “Paws Up” This is Dolly, Service Dog in Training. Here she’s learning a few basic tasks. Opening the “Press Door” button: This can be valuable to enter buildings which offer this feature, even if you are simply tied up holding objects. “Call Help” We employ a…
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Custom Training Client – Dolly
Dolly is a sister to Rock and Riff. She was raised by her owner, and is back with us for Custom Training. Here are some videos of a recent trip to Menard’s for Public Access training. Several Skills: Negotiating Challenging Stairs: Physical Aptitude, Confidence and Trust in the Handler Teaching…
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Service Dog Task: Scent Discrimination
Riff is a Service Dog In Training. We’re taking the time to teach him the basics of scent discrimination to add to his potential to partner with a person who requires Diabetic Alert or Allergen detection. The activity of “teaching dogs to detect scent” is akin to the idea of…
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“Rock”
Rock has been in training with us (his breeders and professional trainers) for Service Dog work since he was just a wee pup. His new partner has been identified. He is no longer available. We created this video to share with his future handler. VIDEOS of Rock’s Early Training LOOSE…
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“Riff” In Training
MOUNTING CHALLENGING SURFACES REFRAIN FROM TRIGGERING ON THE HANDLER’S MOVEMENTS RIDING A MOVING CART Asking future Service Dogs to perform behaviors that may initially be challenging, fear-inducing or question the dog’s trust in his handler are all very critical for the dog’s development.Here, Riff is asked to load onto and…
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Task: “Call For Help” Devices
In my last post I showed Service-Dogs-In-Training, Riff and Rock, pressing a Recordable Dog Button which was programmed to speak to an Alexa device, to call for help. In this short video, you’ll see two other possible options that can be employed when training a Service Dog to “Call for…
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Service Dog Task: “Call for Help!”
In this video you see Riff and Rock learning to press a button which “speaks to an Alexa device. The Recordable Dog Buttons are becoming quite common for folks who choose to teach their dogs to “talk” to them. I employed the button to as the dogs to initiate a…
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