Solace Service Dogs

10/08/2023

Service life can be tough on families - affecting them mentally, emotionally, socially, and spiritually.
And it's a topic ripe for discussion at September 2's CLINICAL MASTERCLASS Caring For Those Who Serve (get your tickets here: https://tinyurl.com/2p8zabz6), which has locked in some of the best minds in trauma-informed care across their respective specialties, as well as those with meaningful insights from their lived experience.
It's where Rehabilitation Counsellor Danielle Murphy, the co-founder of Incite Solutions Group, will give a talk on ‘Psychosocial Rehabilitation for the Family’.
While this event was designed with clinicians in mind, it is open to all current and ex-serving ADF, first-responders, prison officers and their families. In-person tickets are available from $210, but there are budget-friendly tickets for our community members who don't mind tuning in virtually from home, at just $75.
For a full program of speakers and timings, please visit host Dr Richard Magtengaard's website via: https://www.resolute.support/clinicalmasterclass
All funds raised will be donated to Soldiers & Sirens.
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09/08/2023

Still available - Please msg if you are interested in this dog.

Due to a significant change in our personal circumstances, we will be wrapping up Solace Service Dogs. This decision was not made easily, but it is the best thing for our family. Our goal was to provide highly trained service dogs to those who have served, however the toll it has taken on our family is too high. We will be looking at other ways to support Veterans and First Responders, but unsure what that will look like at the moment.

Envy is for sale to someone in need of an assistance dog who will continue with her training and certify her through another organisation. She is far too valuable as a psychiatric assistance dog to go to a pet home. She is incredibly smart, loves training and learns quickly. Envy is currently 10 months old 27kg, and fed a raw food diet and on monthly Nexgard Spectra. She is a German Shepherd X Standard Poodle.
Envy will be extremely loyal to whoever walks and trains her. She is NOT suited to someone who uses "corrections" in training, as she will just want to avoid you and definitely won't respond to you as an assistance dog. An assistance dog MUST be trained to WANT to work. She is extremely responsive to positive reinforcement training amd is an absolute breeze to work with. At 4 weeks of age she would walk down a public street on a perfect loose leash looking up at me, and would stop when I stopped. Envy has been extensively socialised since birth. She is an incredibly special dog.
Envy is not free, she is available to a suitable home for a fair price. This price doesn't even come close to what has been spent raising her since birth, and the thousands of hours of socialisation and training.
Envy is located in Brisbane, Australia.
Please no time wasters, I can't keep spending hours talking to people who can't actually afford a dog.

28/06/2023

ENVY practiced sit-stays at Bunnings. She is such a wonderful dog! She will make an incredible for a or in the near future ❤️💙🩵

16/06/2023

Today's first aid lesson brought to you by Fire Department Chronicles 🚒

15/06/2023

CURRENTLY ASSESSSING 3 HOMES FOR FANTA - NO MORE ENQUIRIES AT THIS STAGE

We have had to make a tough decision. Over the last 6 weeks we have been reassessing Fanta's suitability to become a Service Dog. Our intention with Solace Service Dogs is to raise and train dogs to the highest standard. We will never certify a dog that we arent 100% happy with. Our hearts and souls have gone into these pups, and an immense amount of time, money and hard work. We have decided to remove Fanta from the program, and secure a pet home for her.
The reason Fanta is being washed out - she isn't as calm and relaxed as we need. Whilst she may outgrow this, we don't feel she will have the "chilled out" nature required for a Service Dog. For a pet home, she is probably considered very calm! She is lovely to take out in public, sweet and affectionate, and very clean, very low shedding coat. When she lays on me at night, I never have fur on my clothes.
- German Shepherd X Standard Poodle
- 25kg
- 8 months old
- Will be desexed prior to rehoming
- Fully vaccinated
- Monthly Nexgard Spectra
- Easy to groom, easy to handle
- Raw fed
- Enjoys training
- Microchipped
- Walks nicely on lead

Fanta is not free, and will only go to an amazing home. If you can offer an inside home, with daily walking and want a dog you can easily take to cafes and markets, reach out.

Service Dogs in training for Veterans and First Responders

13/06/2023

Living with a Veteran be like...

11/06/2023

Stacky (8 months old) had an awesome week! He spent time with Matt servicing the suby with the hoist going up and down, and all other sorts of noise. He also went to AMX Superstores at Morayfield and continued to work on his skills in a shop. He did a magnificent down-stay beside the "crazy air blown waving man" outside the store before having a wander inside.
Stacky is having lots of fun learning to bring items to the hand, and is super focused on his human. Stacky also enjoyed meeting a lovely man in a wheelchair today and enjoyed the extra cuddles!

Do not underestimate the amount of socialisation a puppy needs to become a stable and reliable adult.

07/06/2023

For those in Victoria, it's Thank a First Responder Day 👏❤️💙🩵

We're grateful everyday, but today we're joining in to say a huge thank you to all of Victoria's first responders. Whether you're responding to calls for help in your own community, or have put your hand up to assist with the wildfire emergency in Canada, you are incredible humans who do so much to protect and care for our people. ❤️

07/06/2023

THE SOLDIER’S LOYAL MATE
Poem and artwork by Ian Coate

The bond between my working dog is somewhat hard to state.
My working dog is not a pet – he is my loyal mate.

I train, I play and work with him – he gives me all he’s got.
Without complaint he stands by me and shares the soldiers’ lot.

When on deployment overseas and things get really hard,
I soundly sleep because I know, he always stays on guard.

He has a sense if danger’s near – I am his main concern.
In battle he would die for me – for nothing in return.

No matter how I fail in life, he never judges me.
And when I need a friendly paw, it’s there upon my knee.

So if, by chance, I lose my mate – please grieve with me – feel blue.
For when he gives his life for me – he gives his life for you.

John 15:13. ‘Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.’– Lest We Forget

https://iancoate.com/

06/06/2023

Service Dogs in training for Veterans and First Responders

02/06/2023

01/06/2023

Fluff butt Envy working hard in a builders hire equipment shop. She has been exemplary not moving towards people who talk to her, no fear of equipment and loud sudden sounds, and has been focused on her person. She looks over weight in this photo, but under the fluff she is a lean bean!

30/05/2023

The same can be said for dog training 🐕‍🦺

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30/05/2023

28/05/2023

Oh Monday 😂

26/05/2023

Positive reinforcement training does NOT mean no discipline or no boundaries.

21/05/2023

Stacky practising his stand-stay while watching the puppy preschool pups at the new Caboolture - I get emotional thinking about how this pup will go on to change the life of a or and so excited for the future of Solace Service Dogs.

20/05/2023

✨️STACKY✨️ The pups are now 7 months old! Stacky had an incredible session today - he had strangers step over him without him having a care in the world, had some crazy dogs in close proximity without reacting, lots of people, kids running past and near him, used a travelator confidently and of course what's a weekend without a bunnings trip! Stacky practiced his sit-stay, stand-stay, and down-stay in various locations today.

01/04/2023

Sunday morning bush walk 🌞 it's not all about learning public access and task training. We are nearly 6 months old!

01/04/2023

Stacky & Envy having a fun and relaxing morning at the beach Bribie, Queensland, Australia

30/03/2023

Meet Fanta 🖤 5.5 month old German Shepherd X Standard Poodle in training to become a Service Dog for a Veteran or First Responder. Fanta has an incredible guardian home who is doing a great job of socialising Fanta and giving her positive experiences to further grow her confidence and keeping up with her positive reinforcement training to ensure she develops a strong desire to work 💙♥️🩵 next week we might introduce you to her guardian, Lucy 🖤

Service Dogs in training for Veterans and First Responders

26/03/2023

This is Squid, one of our pups who went to a pet home. We received some wonderful feedback on her calm temperament, her loose lead walking and her preference for human focus over dog focus. We are really proud of the work we did with these puppies, and couldn't be happier with the wonderful home Squid has found. Wolfhouse

26/03/2023

Stacky (5.5 months old) out and about today at Cafe63 Burpengary he is doing such a great job of learning deep pressure therapy and handler focus. Super proud of this young man.

12/03/2023

Do you have 1-6 months to foster a puppy in training to become a Service Dog for a Veteran or First Responder?
The pups are 5 months old, and sleep through the night in their crate.
Requirements:
- no other dogs in the home
- work no more than part time
- Able and willing to walk the pup daily
- Able to socialise puppy in various locations regularly
- Able to attend a group training session in Caboolture weekly (probably a Tuesday or Wednesday night) so ideally you will live on the North side of Brisbane
- willing to follow trainers advice
- have the puppy inside with you, spend time with you and cuddle up with you. As service dogs in training, these pups need to have positive experiences with physical contact

Food, vet care, all costs covered by us.
If you are interested, reach out 💙❤️🩵

12/03/2023

Envy out and about, learning to watch the world go by at Annie Lane This pup makes me emotional, she will be such an incredible service dog for a Veteran or First Responder. We expect to begin taking applications from Veterans and First Responders who need a service dog around January 2024 for these puppies.

Service Dogs in training for Veterans and First Responders

04/03/2023

Sunday sleep-ins and coffee in bed with Envy ☕️🖤

28/02/2023

4.5 month old Stacky will be a tremendous service dog for someone with PTSD one day. He is great at deep pressure therapy already, and just gets comfortable anywhere on you. Stacky is in training to become a Service Dog for a Veteran or First Responder. Some of the things he will learn will be to respond to anxiety/panic attacks/flash backs/nightmares, blocking to keep people at a distance, interupt self harm, as well as to assist with physical challenges such as picking up items, carrying items, retrieving items and many more tasks.

27/02/2023

Superstar Arlo who lives in Perth is learning to play dead! I expect this will become more dramatic as he gets older 🤣 his owner is a superstar!