Assistance Dog Selection The following information will be of benefit for those of you who are trying to determine if an assistance dog candidate has the right “stuff”: Finding “Mr. Right” Training Please check IAADP’s resources on the assistance dog training:K-9 Rescue Phone for 9-1-1Tug for TreatsEmergency Phone
Like a number of people who set out to train a service dog for themselves or others, I’ve had to reinvent the wheel on certain tasks, figuring out for myself how to persuade a dog to cooperatively carry out a desired objective. It is only recently that I have learned that the methodology I developed …
Five years ago, I wrote an article about what I’ve learned the hard way about limitations on a service dog’s ability to “save the day” by bringing a disabled person a portable phone in an emergency. The article provided insight on how dogs think and it suggested strategies for overcoming the inherent problems that exist. …
Teaching Dogs to Fetch the Phone in a Crisis Continue to Read
Original article by Joan Froling; Edited by IAADP Board of Directors, 2022 Part 1: FINDING A SUITABLE CANINE CANDIDATE FOR ASSISTANCE DOG WORK WHAT KIND OF DOG IS NEEDED? Assistance dogs face special challenges that pets and even some other working dogs never encounter. Public access work creates extraordinary demands on a dog’s emotional and …
