The Good Shepherd Service Dogs

10/17/2025

🐾 Update from The Good Shepherd Service Dog Team 🐾

This update should have gone along with our video we just posted, but Facebook had other ideas. 😕

We wanted to take a moment to apologize for our lengthy quiet spell — it’s been a busy time for all of us!

Everyone here is doing fine, and we’re excited to share that we’ve welcomed a new addition to our family: Little Bit, an undersized Skye Terrier who, in just one short year of life, has survived distemper, broken bones and being abandoned on the streets of Mexico! 🐶❤️ The video is ofLittle Bit.

Right now, we’re staying in a hotel with the for dogs, (three of whom are the size of small pieces of furniture), while we search for a new place to call home. We had to move on September 10th because our previous home was sold, but we’re staying positive and focused on the next chapter ahead.

Speaking of new chapters — we’ll be renaming this page soon! Our work has expanded beyond service dogs, and we now offer training for all types of dogs — from beloved pets to professional working dogs, including police K9s and everything in between.

Thank you for sticking with us through all the changes and growth. We can’t wait to share more updates (and plenty of Little Bit photos!) soon. 🐾

⚡ Thank-You Special — Limited Time Only! ⚡
As a big thank you to everyone who’s supported us, we’re offering 5% off all in-person and virtual lessons booked before the end of this month! 🗓️
Want to save even more? You’ll get higher discounts when you purchase a lesson package — but hurry, this offer ends soon!

Let’s make this month the start of something great for you and your dog. 🐕💙

Please call or text the number on our page to book a lesson or consultation.

— The Good Shepherd Team

10/17/2025

01/18/2025

It's coyotes mating season. Pets, especially in urban areas, are at risk from coyotes attacks. There are two reasons the attacks are worse in urban areas. 2. There are a higher concentration of pets in urban areas. 2. There are a higher concentration of coyotes in urban areas. Yes. There are more coyotes living in urban areas, than in either rural or wilderness areas.

10/26/2024

This is a widespread problem with guide and service dog teams everywhere.

10/25/2024

There was a problem with the go fund me site and we've and Gilles is canceling it and going to use another platform.

Sorry for any trouble this may have caused.

10/22/2024

I was looking over some old training videos. Here is one of me doing blindfold training at the transit center in SierraVista AZ. This youngster is named Ranger. I was training him as a guide dog. The video starts with Ranger guiding me along the line of bus bays. He brought me to the correct bus. The driver had extended a ramp, and Ranger brought me to the end of the ramp and stopped. I felt for the edge, then gave the "forward" and we went up the ramp inside the bus. The ramp is scary.

I later explained to the driver that using the ramp is harder for someone blind, or wearing a blindfold, to get on the bus, than it is to going to the bus door and up the steps with a railing to hold to. The ramp is open on the sides and has no railing. If you don't walk straight, you can fall off the side of the ramp. It does have a low lip which works to keep a wheelchair from falling off. But it won't stop someone walking from falling. But Ranger saw to keeping me straight.

Sorry for the blurriness of the video. This was taken on a flip phone with a mediocre camera.

10/21/2024

This video was taken in 2020. It shows me in Blindfold being guided by Ranger towards a bus. Ranger stops at the bottom of the bus ramp. I feel for the ramp with my foot. Feeling that I am in the right spot, I praise Ranger and go forward onto the bus.