- Whelping box with litter mates
- First semi-solid food (yumm)
- Intro to a kneeling bus
- Interacting and being patient with a small child
- Greeting older dog
- Wearing strange items like jingle bell collars and antlers
- 101 things to do with a box (clicker game)
- Parachute tunnel
- Novel surface gauntlet-look at that puppy's tail waggin' with excitement
- Visit-with head gently in lap
- Down-stay while being stepped over
- Down-stay at a distance-look that happy engaged face
- Wait until released to eat watch the drool string!
- Tug open a door
- Distance recall
- Leash retrieval
- Heeling next to a power chair (note bungee leash to make sure does not get caught in the drive wheels)
- Heeling next to a manual chair
- Providing light forward momentum using a handle and body harness
- Stopping on stairs
- going under something
The title says it all. Working, living with, and loving service dogs is a way of life.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Video: Susquehanna Service Dogs: Enjoy the Journey
This great video from Susquehanna Service Dogs out of Pennsylvania shows the life of a service dog candidate from puppyhood to team training. For it was kind like a Where's Waldo of identifying the different stages and training exercises.Here I caught:
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