One of our clients has written about her experience training a service dog to retrieve, a deceptively simple looking behavior that is actually a very complex task to train. Katie Calahan is owner-training her service dog through our program using our online lessons. Katie and Daisy are very advanced, having completed all of the coursework… Continue reading Training a Service Dog to Retrieve
Category: Tasks and Work
These are posts about Tasks and Work training for your Service Dog in Training.
Teaching a Dog to Use Buttons to Talk
Service dog teams often reach out, during or after their formal training is over, because the handler and the dog both crave learning new skills and training together as a team. ELLAS Animals INC recommends many different types of further training like agility, search and rescue, dock diving, detection, and additional task/work training. One of… Continue reading Teaching a Dog to Use Buttons to Talk
Autism Service Dog Tasks, Work, and Benefits
by Zan Raynor, certified dog trainer and CEO of ELLAS Animals INC Autism is a spectrum and manifests differently in each person, so it’s difficult to generalize about the needs of autistic people. Autism is also a lifelong condition so the lifestyle, daily routines, and needs of an autistic person necessarily change as they age… Continue reading Autism Service Dog Tasks, Work, and Benefits