Service Dog Quest: Teaching Comfortable Check-Ins

A voluntary check-in can help you communicate in distracting places.

Kea Grace
Published January 29, 2014

Service Dog Quest: Understanding Distractions

This exercise revisits the learning focus of Week Three in AP's 2014 Service Dog Challenge.

Kea Grace
Published January 20, 2014

Service Dog Quest: Measuring Current Training

This exercise revisits Week Two of AP's 2014 challenge. Its purpose is to identify what the dog can comfortably do now and what needs more teaching.

Kea Grace
Published January 14, 2014

Service Dog Quest: Choosing Useful Goals

AP's Service Dog Quest began as a 2014 challenge series. Its goal-setting exercise can still help you choose manageable work for your team; it is not a current…

Kea Grace
Published January 6, 2014

Service-Dog Public Access: A Quick Guide

For ADA public access, a service dog must be individually trained for disability-related work or tasks. Comfort alone does not meet that definition.

Kea Grace
Published September 5, 2013

Train a Service Dog to Retrieve: Picking Up and Introducing Objects

Teach a service dog to pick up safe objects, deliver them to an accessible location and gradually work with new items. Part Three of AP’s retrieve series.

Kea Grace
Published August 20, 2013

Train a Service Dog to Retrieve: A Comfortable Hold and Release

Build a comfortable hold and release with rewards, short steps and a delivery point that suits you. Part Two of AP’s service dog retrieve series.

Kea Grace
Published August 9, 2013