Service Dogs

Service dogs, ESAs, therapy dogs

eighteen month writeup on owner training a psychiatric service dog for combat related PTSD, the public access training gap nobody talks about, what twenty one hundred hours of structured training time actually looked like, and the things i would tell a veteran at month zero of the same journey

Granite is our 26 month old standard poodle, 52lb black male, sourced as a puppy from a breeder with a multigenerational track record of placing dogs into service work, with the intentional plan from...

Posted by two_seniors_at_home_currently

Our dog passed his therapy dog evaluation!

After a year of training, our golden just passed his therapy dog evaluation! We start visiting the children's hospital next week. The whole process was actually really fun. He had to pass a bunch of...

Posted by golden_retriever_dad

Owner training vs program - experiences?

Looking into a psychiatric service dog and trying to decide between owner training and going through a program. Programs have year+ waitlists and cost tens of thousands. Anyone successfully owner...

Posted by clueless_trainer_123