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Inspired by Dogs & Nature
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”
I’ve been working with a handful of four month old puppies on some very basic service dog training tasks. A couple of the puppies are very keen and I have decided to teach them scent discrimination. This task can be used to alert to… Continue Reading “Early Scent Discrimination Training”
