How to Keep Your Dog Safe & Healthy During the Holidays
(plus CPR/First Aid Class Offering!) The holiday season brings a bevvy of joy, fun, and training opportunities with our dogs! It also brings some potential hazards. Prepare now to make the holiday season joyful and merry and keep your dog safe and healthy. Want to know MORE about keeping your dog safe and healthy? We … How to Keep Your Dog Safe & Healthy During the Holidays Read More »
Keep Your Service Dog Safe, Healthy & Well-Behaved During the Holidays
(plus CPR/First Aid Class Offering!) The holiday season brings a bevvy of joy, fun, and training opportunities with our dogs! It also brings some potential hazards. Prepare now to make the holiday season joyful and merry and keep your service dog safe and healthy. Want to know MORE about keeping your dog safe and healthy? … Keep Your Service Dog Safe, Healthy & Well-Behaved During the Holidays Read More »
Maintaining Your Service Dog’s Ideal Weight
Training a service dog means using a lot of treats! If we’re not careful, this can lead to overfeeding and weight gain. If your service dog in training is overweight, there are multiple health and behavior consequences: How to avoid overfeeding your dog Base how much you feed your dog on the appropriate feeding instructions … Maintaining Your Service Dog’s Ideal Weight Read More »
Joy and Kisses — Remembering Frankie Mazzei
As a service dog trainer, I have the privilege of working with a lot of wonderful people and dogs. I grow very fond of all the service dog teams I train with, but sometimes there is a team with whom I forge a special connection. That was true with Frankie Mazzei, a disabled veteran, and … Joy and Kisses — Remembering Frankie Mazzei Read More »
3 Surprising Results of Positive Reinforcement Training For Service Dogs.
Should you only use positive reinforcement to train your service dog? Or will combining rewards and corrections provide greater reliability? By Sharon Wachsler CPDT-KA KPA-CTP If you are training your own service dog, or thinking of taking this journey, you should know how using exclusively positive reinforcement training can affect you and your dog. As … 3 Surprising Results of Positive Reinforcement Training For Service Dogs. Read More »