Service Dog Skills

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I’ll start out by saying, “I am vehemently opposed to fake service dogs!”  That being said, I’ve been asked by a member who will be undergoing spinal surgery to help teach some basic skills that an assistance dog should have.

Service dogs are specifically trained to perform a service.  Oftentimes this will be retrieving something for someone in a wheelchair.  In this lesson I show the basics of teaching a dog to hold various textures, retrieving an object, picking it up if it gets dropped, directed retrieve – I point at something and you get exactly that and opening a heavy refrigerator door.  I hope this skills will prove helpful to anyone helping train an assistance / service type dog, but remember, don’t try to pass your dog off as a service dog and bring them to public places and especially on airplanes.  I too wish the laws were different, but people with real service dogs need to respect and attention they get because of their situation.  Nothing I hate more than people who pass their dogs off as fake service dogs![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1609801143070{margin-bottom: 20px !important;border-top-width: 3px !important;border-right-width: 3px !important;border-bottom-width: 3px !important;border-left-width: 3px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #ffd400 !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #000000 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”The very fewest of dogs have the ability to function as service dogs!” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:20|text_align:center|line_height:1.4″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1610042275015{margin-bottom: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #efefef !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Keywords for this Lesson” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|line_height:1.4″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]bring, dog training, hold, service dog training, tug[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1609801111081{background-color: #efefef !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Recommended Products for this Lesson” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|line_height:1.4″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”]