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Service dog training + maintenance geared towards empowering owner trainers!

10/27/2025

grown up Goose turned one a couple days ago!

like a typical shepherd, she’s been slow to mature. and yet she still knows so much! let’s do a little yearly recap ⤵️

Goose knows:
- dynamic heel foundations (not 100% proofed, but she’s getting there!)
- settling for long periods of time (~1 hour)
- people = food (auto engagement when people walk nearby or interact with her, even when I’m distracted)
- household manners (no counter surfing, auto settling around the other dogs, etc)
- grooming manners (polite for nail filing, brushing, and baths)
- positions + implied stays
- coping skills for stressful situations (looks to me for guidance + understands a plethora of pattern games)
- foundations for dropped item retrieve

very proud of her growth overall, she is Miss Squeaky (the shepherd whine, iykyk) but she is also Miss Takes Everything In Stride. she bounces back from stress so quickly and learns new things beautifully!

next week she goes home to her handler for a few weeks, then we’re going to hit the ground running around the holidays! prepping for busy shopping areas, festivities with my family, etc etc!

let’s go Goose 🫡

Interested in working together? DM me or reach out at the following places:
📞 +16152819364
💻 [email protected]

Currently booking both virtual & in-person clients!
📌 Task training
📌 Public access skills
📌 Scent based alerts
📌 Mobility tasks (leading, forward momentum, & counterbalance)
📌 Response & interruptions

10/19/2025

This is a form of one way engagement, teaching your dog a start button behavior (eye contact) that unlocks the reward (movement + treats) in order to fully “start” the training session!

I do this with all of my in house training dogs to give them the option to explore their environment and choosing when to engage with me, then showing that it’s really fun when they choose to do so!

Our session opening cue is “ready?” so Goose has an understanding that when she’s ready to engage, I’ll be waiting for her!

Interested in working together? DM over at or reach out at the following places:
📞 +16152819364
💻 [email protected]

Currently booking both virtual & in-person clients!
📌 Task training
📌 Public access skills
📌 Scent based alerts
📌 Mobility tasks (leading, forward momentum, & counterbalance)
📌 Response & interruptions

07/07/2025

Goose popping in to remind you how valuable a coffee shop trip with your SDiT can be!

It’s good for practicing:

• waiting in lines
• check out behaviors
• settling
• ignoring dropped foods
• people watching & reinforcing neutrality
• exposure to novel sounds (the espresso machine can be scary at first!)
• & more!!

I love taking B&T clients to my local coffee shop for all of the above reasons +PLUS I get to have a sweet treat 🥰

Interested in working together? DM me today at or reach out at the following places:
📞 +16152819364
💻 [email protected]

Currently booking both virtual & in-person clients!
📌 Task training
📌 Public access skills
📌 Scent based alerts
📌 Mobility tasks (leading, forward momentum, & counterbalance)
📌 Response & interruptions

06/23/2025

This cutie is Willow - the newest dog to pass our program’s service dog evaluation and join the Cosmic Crew!

Willow is a mixed breed who was adopted by her handler a few months ago and is a natural for service work! I’m so impressed by her neutrality, motivation, and overall demeanor.

This team will be doing a mix of virtual and in-person lessons to tackle task training and further their public access skills! I’m so excited to see how far they go together 🥰

(PS - check out how cute her How To Train Your Dragon patch is 😭)

Interested in working together? DM us today or reach out at the following places:
📞 +16152819364
💻 [email protected]

Currently booking both virtual & in-person clients!
📌 Task training
📌 Public access skills
📌 Scent based alerts
📌 Mobility tasks (leading, forward momentum, & counterbalance)
📌 Response & interruptions

06/08/2025

Wanted to make an introduction for Goose, CSD’s first hybrid program dog!

Goose was selected by her owner/handler via their previous trainers guidance, looking specifically for a dog with the aptitude for service work. She was pulled from the shelter at 5 1/2 months old and brought to me!

Goose has been with me for almost two months now, learning the in’s and out’s of being a well balanced puppy, as well as light public access foundations. She’s been a variety of places and currently her favorite thing to do is accompany me to get coffee! Her favorite toy is the chuck it bumper, she will carry it around the whole time she frolics around the yard.

What is the hybrid program?

This means Goose will be with me long term, on and off, throughout her journey training as a service dog. She already has a handler and will be going back to them mid fall. While at home with her handler, she’ll follow up with me doing weekly virtual lessons. Then she’ll come back for another longer period of time to continue training!

I’m very excited for Goose to be Cosmic’s first program dog. She’s a very well rounded puppy, with higher food drive and the innate desire to please her handler. She genuinely enjoys working but has a beautiful off switch at home. She’s such a sweet little girl!

Spots for the hybrid program will eventually open up in the future, but for now I’m fully focused on Goose’s development!

06/07/2025

Handler Mercury & Service Dog in Training Cricket have officially graduated from our program ❤️

Cricket is dropping the in training title entirely - he is a full fledged Service Dog now.

How did he get to this point?

Cricket has passed all three CGC’s, his Public Access Test, and demonstrated that he knows all of his needed task work in a variety of environments that his handler needs him to work in. He also has completed OFA testing, ensuring that structurally he is capable of doing the job of a service dog.

Mercury and Cricket have been in our program for nearly two years now, starting when he was just 8 months old, and Cricket has come so far.

This won’t be the last of seeing this team, though, since Mercury is currently working with us as an Apprentice Trainer, learning the in’s and out’s of service dog training! We’re helping them get their hands on a variety of dogs and refining their skills.

It’s always a bittersweet moment when a team graduates, but I’m so proud of these two and cannot wait for the adventures that are to come for them!

05/19/2025

We’re so excited to bring Mercury on to the Cosmic Service Dogs team. They will be learning underneath our Head Trainer, Claire, all about the ins and outs of service dog training, puppy raising, and client communication! Stay tuned to see more from Mercury’s journey as an apprentice trainer with us.

05/02/2025

Cricket passed his Public Access Test (PAT) which is a requirement for all dogs who graduate my program!

This means that Cricket possesses all of the skills required to be a service dog that has full time public access rights. It also means he’s officially dropping the “In Training” title since he’s completed the majority of his task work.

We’re just waiting on X-rays to finish out his mobility work - he’s completed all foundations, just waiting for the final clearance to start adding pressure into his harness!

This means that his time within my program will be ending shortly and while I’m SO excited.. I’m also very emotional. Cricket has been working with me for two years now and while I’ve graduated other service dog teams, Cricket is the first to work with me from start to finish. I remember meeting him as a puppy at Bark Week 2023 and being in awe of how cool of a puppy he was back then. Little did I know, he’d turn into a phenomenal working dog.

It surely won’t be the last of seeing Cricket, we have big plans for the end of the year! And exciting developments with his handler, Mercury.

I’m so endlessly proud of this team and all of the hard work they’ve put in over the past few years 💜

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Gordonsville, TN
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http://www.cosmicservicedogs.com/

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