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
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What does it take to train a service dog?
by Zan Raynor, certified dog training and CEO of ELLAS Animals INC The temperament of the trainer, rather than the dog The temperament to train a service dog may not lie completely where you expect. We see plenty of statistics about how high a percentage of dogs that begin service dog training are then “washed”… Continue reading What does it take to train a service dog?