How to Train Your Service Dog in Deep Pressure Therapy (DPT)
Deep pressure therapy (DPT) is a highly useful task for people who are training their own service dog — for themselves or their child. DPT is useful for multiple types of disabilities, including PTSD, depression, panic and anxiety disorders, autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, arthritis and other pain syndromes, seizure disorders, and more. Your dog may … How to Train Your Service Dog in Deep Pressure Therapy (DPT) Read More »
How to Keep Your Service Dog Occupied When You’re Under the Weather
Or, “How I Kept My Dogs From Murdering Me in My Sleep While I had Covid” That subtitle is a joke, obviously. My dogs are total sweetie-pies (and they sleep in their crates, most nights!). But if you’ve ever been unable to exercise your service dog for a few days due to illness, weather, or … How to Keep Your Service Dog Occupied When You’re Under the Weather Read More »
4 Frigid Weather Training Tips for Your Service Dog
How to Train Your Service Dog in Training (SDiT) When It’s Too Cold Outside If you’re struggling with your service-dog-in-training’s education when the temperatures are below freezing, you’re not alone! Here are four tips to get through the cold times with your dog’s behavior intact. As we dive into this topic, we want to extend … 4 Frigid Weather Training Tips for Your Service Dog Read More »
How Can I Exercise My Service Dog in Winter?
Keeping your service dog exercised and enriched can be a challenge! Three factors that can complicate the picture are… A further complication for many of you is having a disability that causes fatigue, pain, immobility, or otherwise makes it hard for you to consistently exercise your dog. We will have a future blog addressing that … How Can I Exercise My Service Dog in Winter? Read More »
8 Reasons to Train Your Service Dog with Shaping
What is Shaping? Shaping is a form of service dog training using successive approximation. When shaping, we reinforce tiny steps towards a goal behavior. We mark and reward (e.g., click, then treat) for minuscule increments along the path, rewarding many times for any step toward the larger goal. Once your dog has mastered offering the … 8 Reasons to Train Your Service Dog with Shaping Read More »