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Posted on January 5, 2026
by Tammie Rogers
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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?”
Category: All things dog, Common Sense Dog Advice, CommonSenseDogAdvice, TrainingTags: aggressive dogs, confidence, dog, dog ownership, dog parks, Dog training, dogs, fiction, pets, pitbulls, respect, trust
Posted on November 18, 2025
by Tammie Rogers
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Sometimes when I am responding to a potential client in email, I find that I have written words which are worth sharing. Rather than just allowing these thoughts to drop to the bottom of the SENT folder, I’ve chosen to share them here. This… Continue Reading “About Service Dogs”
Category: All things dog, Care & Management - Dog, Common Sense Dog Advice, CommonSenseDogAdvice, Service Dogs, TrainingTags: dog, dog socialization, Dog training, dogs, pets, Service Dog, Writing
Posted on June 24, 2025
by Tammie Rogers
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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”
Category: All things dog, Care & Management - Dog, Service Dogs, Training, Videos - DogTags: dog, Dog training, dogs, pets, public access test, public access videos, puppy, Service Dog, service dog training, sheepadoodle service dog
Posted on January 23, 2025
by Tammie Rogers
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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”
Posted on January 12, 2025
by Tammie Rogers
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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”
Posted on January 6, 2025
by Tammie Rogers
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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””
Posted on December 24, 2024
by Tammie Rogers
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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”
Category: All things dog, puppies, Service Dogs, TrainingTags: Blog, border collie, dog, dogs, pets, Service Dog, service dog training, sheepadoodle
Posted on October 8, 2024
by Tammie Rogers
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As a professional dog trainer, I often hear clients say that they actively “socialized” their puppy, and yet the pup is still highly reactive to a variety of stimuli in the environment. When I inquire about the “socialization” process these folks employed, the problem… Continue Reading “Puppy Socialization”