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Inspired by Dogs & Nature
As a professional dog trainer for over 30 years, I offer advice, experience and know-how on dogs – their management, training, and care. Here, I will also share information about Service Dogs.
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 additional possible devices that can be employed when training… Continue Reading “Devices for 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… Continue Reading “Service Dog Training Task: “Get Help!””
As we train Riff for his future partnership as a Service Dog, we are teaching him a number of different skills. One such task is to alert to a specific scent. This may be blood glucose highs and lows, or perhaps allergen alert. A… Continue Reading “Scent Discrimination Training – Riff”
Rock is a puppy from our April 2024 litter that we’ve retained for Service Dog training. He is Riff’s brother (I posted about Riff’s training in the previous post.) We breed this specific cross (St. Poodle x Old English Sheepdog) because we’ve found them… Continue Reading “Service Dog in Training “Rock””
Riff is a puppy from our April 2024 litter that we’ve retained for Service Dog training. We breed this specific cross (St. Poodle x Old English Sheepdog) because we’ve found them to be exceptional Service Dogs for both child handlers and adults with a… Continue Reading “Riff Service Dog In Training”
I have two puppies from our last litter here in my office. Riff is a pup that I held back from about the day he was born to train for Service Dog work. Rock, his brother, has always been a bit of a “wild… Continue Reading ““Rock” Practices Service Dog Task”
Here’s a short video of Riff on 11-4-24 at 6 months old. I’m training Riff to perform a variety of Service Dog tasks including scent discrimination. I plan to place him into Service Dog work when the appropriate person with a disability is identified.… Continue Reading “Scent Discrimination “Riff””
In my opinion, there are two basic strategies that we use when teaching / training a dog.The first method puts the trainer in the position of encouraging the puppy to perform behaviors by rewarding the desired behavior or an approximation of that behavior. This… Continue Reading “Loose Lead Walking – training a puppy”
