service dogs

Why “Perfect” Service Dog Puppies Can Be A Red Flag

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People who are training their own service dogs are under an extraordinary amount of pressure from day one. In addition to the baseline difficulties caused by our disabilities, we have also taken responsibility for the two-year process of painstakingly transforming a tiny infant mammal of another species (who doesn’t understand English and thinks cat poop […]

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Improvisation in Dog Training: Lucas’s Service Dog Tuck

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One of the most undervalued must-haves in a dog trainer is the ability to improvise effectively. Almost anyone can follow a recipe to get a basic behavior.  If it’s a good recipe, even a novice dog trainer will be successful a reasonable amount of the time. But what really separates the wheat from the chaff is what

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