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Inspired by Dogs & Nature
I’m opposed to taking a well-mannered, properly socialized dog to a dog park. To me, it’s akin to taking a kind and courteous child to a park full of naughty little, hoodlum bullies, whose parents are either not paying attention to their children’s ill-disciplined… Continue Reading “Should You Take Your Dog to the Dog Park?”
Dolly is a pup that we bred. She’s 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:… Continue Reading “Service Dog In Training: Dolly”
The activity of “teaching dogs to detect scent” is akin to the idea of “teaching a person to see colors.” Dogs don’t need to be taught to detect scent anymore than people need to be taught to see colors. However, if we want to… Continue Reading “More Scent Discrimination – Riff”
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””
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”
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”
