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Cosmic Service Dogs Service dog training + maintenance geared towards empowering owner trainers!

02/13/2025

This is me giving every single one of you a smooch for supporting me over the years 💜

I love what I do so much, but I wouldn’t be here without everyone’s unwavering support of my growth and learning journey as a trainer.

I strive to learn and do better every day because I want to be the best I can be for my clients, past, present, and future.

Thank you for trusting me with your dogs. I love each and every one of you so much.

Go play with your dog today. Show them love in the way they want to be loved. Let them eat a bite of bacon or shred that cardboard box you’ve been saving. Take them for a hike or give them their most special toy. Tell them it’s from Auntie Claire 🫶🏻

01/31/2025

Cricket has been in training with me since December 2023. He came to me initially to work on dog excitement reactivity, and while it’s been a while since we stopped labeling him as reactive, tonight was the final test for him.

Winnie, my 8 month old puppy, came to his lesson essentially to terrorize him while he worked (not as bad as it sounds - it just involved a lot of her sniffing him and getting into his space like shown in the picture). He ignored her beautifully, even when she tried to steal his treats.

So we had the discussion & Cricket is officially no longer labeled as reactive 🥳 like I said, it’s been a while since I would have said he was, but he’s officially graduated from that phase of training today 🫶🏻

He’ll be turning two in a few months and once he receives his official health testing, we have one more task to train in addition to finalizing his alert. In the coming weeks we’ll be administering the Cosmic Service Dogs Public Access Test! Cricket is very close to fully completing his training and I’m very excited for them.

Everyone tell Cricket good job 🫶🏻👏🏻

01/30/2025

Things I’ve learned about Fenrys after living with him for two and a half weeks:

- he is a connoisseur of personal play. dare I say, it’s his highest value reward.
- in order of value: recall > playing in creek > playing frisbee. I am very grateful for that recall. no soggy shepherds in this house 🫡🤞🏻
- zoomies are INTENSE in the evening before he poops on his walk. he takes full advantage of the length of the flexi.
- if you put his slow feeder on top of his crate after he finishes eating, no you didn’t. it’s on the floor now. you’re welcome!
- he has big paws. he will smack you with them. no, there’s no loophole around this 🫶🏻

Overall, Fen has been fitting in to the household very well. We’re prioritizing behavioral downs at the moment and now that my car is fixed, he gets to go on more field trips this week!

01/22/2025

Cosmic Service Dogs is firmly pro-human rights. We stand with BLM, the LGBTQIA+ community, the disabled community, and many more.

The CSD team is made up of members of many marginalized communities. We are here to welcome and support you regardless of race, sexuality, gender expression, etc.

Hate has no home within the community we’ve spent so long building.

With love,
Claire Schulz - Head Trainer & Founder of Cosmic Service Dogs

01/04/2025

Hi all!

With the new year comes some changes to pricing here at Cosmic Service Dogs. As listed, all services (in-person lessons, virtual lessons, and board & trains) will be affected by this price increase. The notice shown here applies for current clients and new clients— VIRTUAL lesson packages of 3 or more will be discounted to $65 per lesson.

For current clients, any currently booked lessons are not included in this increase. However, going forward, any newly booked lessons will include the price increase. If anyone has questions or needs clarification, feel free to email or DM!

Thank you and happy New Year! 🌟

12/29/2024

I just realized I never introduced Grim!

Grim is a year old English Shepherd and a littermate to current SDiT client, Dottie, and past B&T client, Koivu!

he had his preliminary evaluation for service work a few weeks ago and this past Friday he had his first lesson with us!

right now we’re building some foundational skills such as his loose leash walk and finding the heel position, as well as encouraging environmental neutrality!

eventually he will be starting medical alerts and responses for his handler ✨

12/26/2024

Merry Christmas from all of us at Cosmic Service Dogs ✨

This time last year I had two consistent clients. This year, we’re in the double digits and growing every single day. I’m so proud of the business I’ve built this past year, but more importantly I’m so proud of all of the dogs and handlers I help serve.

Each and every one of you are so special to me. I hope you all have a very merry holiday season 🫶🏻

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12/16/2024

Happy holidays from Cosmic Service Dogs!

For this winter season, we’ve compiled a short list of possible gift ideas. Since our demographic is service dog handlers, the list is oriented towards things that could be useful for any folks who have dogs in training or fully trained dogs. Of course, this also applies to people who have pets!

In this chilly winter season, we hope that these gifts keep you and your pups warm! And as always, the best gift of all is being cozy inside with dogs.

04/03/2024

✨CLIENT HIGHLIGHT✨

Caroline & Kai have been working with us for almost a year now! Kai started our program with low confidence and his handler didn’t know how to properly handle it. Over these past few months, we’ve built up Kai’s stress tolerance by showing him handler support where his confidence lacked. By showing him that his handler will never put him in a situation he can’t handle, he has learned that he can actually do a lot of previously scary things!

Caroline & those frequently around the pair have stated that Kai is noticeably happier and enthusiastic while working now!

Kai is continuing in our program to focus on new task work & refining his obedience skills 🫶🏻

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Lynleigh & Delilah have been virtual clients of mine since August 2024! We’ve worked on a variety of things virtually - heel work, long line manners, tasking.. you name it, we’ve probably covered it together! We’ve slowly been building up Delilah’s public access skills and at the beginning of the year, part of Lynleigh’s homework for Delilah was to start incorporating her into more errand type daily outings! This has all lead up to Lynleigh tackling Delilah’s first restaurant experience, which they absolutely killed together. There’s of course always room for improvement, but going to a restaurant has been a “fear place” for Lynleigh - and now that they’ve done it together, it’ll just get easier to tackle in the future 🥰 One visit down, two more to go (per their homework)! Everyone tell Lynleigh and Delilah what a good job they’ve been doing. I’m so proud of this team 💜

Winnie is proofing her implied stays at home! here we set her up for success by limiting distractions & asking for shorter duration. eventually we will add in distractions at home before proofing this behavior in a low traffic public area next! does your service dog have an implied stay?

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