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