Leashes for Living Assistance Dog School

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Leashes for Living Assistance Dog School

Our unique program teaches: 1) Veterans & Persons with Disabilities to train a service dog 2) Ther
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Once the team is established training begins, goals are set, and the team works towards various achievement levels which include, but are not limited to:
AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy
AKC Canine Good Citizen (CGC)
Public Access Test
Our 7 Levels of Obedience and Manners
Advancing to:
Special Skill Awards for the Service Dog Teams
Special Trick Training for the Therapy Dog Teams

After graduation, using the

knowledge and techniques taught in the program will enable the person with disabilities to continue training the service dog to perform new tasks as the person's needs change. Therapy dog graduates will be able to learn new tricks to help with their therapy work.

08/19/2024

LD’s service dog in training Sky (GSD) having a precious moment with Loki (Dobie) her bestest of friends ❤️❤️

08/02/2024

Quarter Mania on Tuesday was a blast. It was great to meet the Lee County K9 group. The kids collecting the quarters did a fantastic job. The vendors were fabulous - a great array of items to select from. The auctioneers did a great job with all the wonderful items being auctioned. Sloane hit the jackpot in winning the most banana bread and cookies. So glad Abby/Heidi, Jeni/Ollie, Tami, and Katie could join us this year. Thank you Karl/Layla & Clare for all your help putting this together. Greatly appreciated ❤️🐕‍🦺🐾. Look forward to seeing everyone again 🐕‍🦺🐾🐕‍🦺

07/05/2024

Caitlyn and Clare celebrated the 4th of July in style 🐾❤️🐾❤️ sooooo cute.

07/04/2024

07/02/2024

Ollie being Mr Helpyhelperton when Jeni picked up her prescription at the drug store 🥰🐾🐕‍🦺

06/04/2024

Karl’s Big GSD Buddy who is waiting to go outside with his new puppy friend Layla ❤️🐾❤️🐾 thanks Karl for sharing this awesome picture.

06/04/2024

They didn’t leave much of a spot for me to lay down 😂😂😂Phoebe (my SD) next to her Sky (LD’s service dog), lil Charlie (master at being a stinker😂), & Loki (dreaming of all the fences he jumped over today😂) these guys are a hoot. Only one missing is Bo the big black dog (LD’s service dog that is retiring this year).

06/02/2024

Karl took Layla out for her outing at McDonalds this morning. ❤️🐕‍🦺🐾- Awesome 🐾🥳🐾.
In the afternoon he met with Sara/Claire and Jeni/Ollie at Menards and he followed the girls around “girls out shopping spree”. Up & close with no concerns (even in the dog food/treat- toy aisle), busy aisle recalls with people n carts, step overs, & pass off tandem walking adventures. Super great watching you all virtually - you all did fantastic. ❤️🐾🐕‍🦺. Thank you Karl 🐕‍🦺🐾

05/20/2024

Thank you Sara for sharing these pics from today’s testing. Awesome ❤️🐾

05/19/2024

Congratulations 🥳🥳to Sara/Clare and Jeni/Ollie 🐾🐾both teams passed the AKC Community Canine (Advanced Canine Good Citizen) Test today. So very proud of you all. Thank you Karl for your awesome assistance with these two teams.

05/13/2024

Wishing you the bestest Happy Birthday Karl from everyone in the Leashes for Living Family. 🥳🥳🥳

04/25/2024

Jeni and Ollie’s first day back to work since Jen’s accident in December. Ollie’s distance stays are fantastic, is ability to ignore the distractions are great and staying in a down while being walked over is phenomenal. Super duper team 🐾❤️🐾❤️

04/12/2024

Looks like Ollie enjoyed his flight home 🥳💤🥳💤

04/07/2024

Ollie did you hear our mom’s say we’ve gone 683 miles today?
Yeah Phoebe and I heard them say they are real proud of us cause we have been awesome 🐾🐾

Address

P. O. Box 126
Mendota, IL
61342

Telephone

+6236871706

Website

http://www.LeashesForLiving.com/

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Videos

Jeni & Ollie

Ollie in Las Vegas 2024

Ollie with his bird friend in Las Vegas

Ollie and his bird friend in Las Vegas

Karl sent Buddy to make a special deliver of his Happy Valentines Day Card to Clare - tooooo cute - awesome GSD delivery - 🐾❤️🐾❤️

Hello everyone 😊

This is hilarious 😂😂😂😂Abby telling Heidi to go hide. How adorable is this 🥰🥰🥰

Sara and Claire went up & down the Elks steps, the Post Office steps and here she is going up n down the old Public Library steps and did fantastic 🐾❤️🥳

The weather turned upside down on us with heat but Nina/Kawie pushed thru it and passed the CGC. Congratulations team so proud of you. Here is a video of one of their exercises (perfectly performed) that’s in the next level of testing - the Public Access Test(PAT). Team is on a roll and heading for that bright light. Go team. ❤️🐕‍🦺🐾

CJ/Bella out n about with Jared and Phoebe/I at Culver’s in Rochelle. (Finally getting warm outside). Grabbing a bite before we head over to Walmart to go shopping. Kept asking Phoebe to go further into Bella’s space under the table- even had Phoebe’s butt bump Bella’s butt & she didn’t care. They are so excited, their Graduation is on May 20th - only one more class to go. 🎉🎉🎉. Great job today. - so proud 🥰

Fun today at CherryVale Mall. Ran around a furniture store, Barnes & Nobles, rested at the food court, went up n down the elevator, went up n down the stairs & then posed for this video ❤️🐾 finished the day by looking at puppies in FurBabies from the hallway & walked thru Tilted arcade. Phoebe/I had great fun with CJ/Bella.

Abby took Heidi out n about to the ball game ❤️❤️awesome you guys and she listened sooooo very well. Thanks for sharing this video. Team Abby/Heidi is doing great. ❤️🐾❤️

Heidi playing ⚽️

Abby was asked to teach Heidi 3 tricks. This is the 1st trick she taught her. Kids & adults are going to love watching her play ball. Can’t wait to see what she comes up with for her next 2 tricks. Great job team Abby ❤️🐾❤️🐾

Another young family member joining in on the dog training fun. ❤️❤️and being taught by his big sister. You’re doing great Cal and Sloane thank you for being such a great sister and trainer.

Ollie out for a beautiful stroll in the Las Vegas hotel with Jeni. Lookin great guys. Hope you’re having a wonderful time. ❤️🐾❤️🐾

Sara us working Claire on sitting while Sara keeps moving forward & then calling Claire to catch up with her. Lookin fantastic team Sara ❤️🐾❤️🐾

Gavin braved the cold weather & took Kawie out shopping. He’s learned the more you take her out n about the better they both will get in practicing the walking technique. Yea team Gavin. 🐾❤️

Sophia working with Pamela on “paw” giving her bad leg some exercise. That leg is getting better ❤️🐾❤️🐾

Super 👏👏 team Pam. Sophia looks great performing her formal retrieve. You stuck in there thru the training phases and look how great its paid off. Now we proceed to the next level - fun stuff ahead ❤️❤️🐾🐾❤️❤️

Blast from the past❤️🐾 Although Bob’s phone camera didn’t take the best videos back then 😂 it didn’t blur the fact that 2019 Leashes for Living ADS graduate team Bob & Suzie Q make a great service dog team. Look forward to our AZ outing in a few weeks and catching up ❤️🐾

Ollie sure loves his ball. ❤️🐾

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Our Story

Leashes for Living is a unique program that teaches veterans with disabilities to train their own service dog. Through positive training techniques, the veteran learns how to communicate with their canine partner. By teaching their dog special skills and manners, the veteran is capable of achieving an enhanced lifestyle.

The learned tasks are based on the veteran’s needs, thereby giving them greater independence not only in their home but in the community.

Once the team is established training begins, goals are set, and the team works toward various achievement levels which include, but are not limited to: AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy AKC Canine Good Citizen (CGC) Public Access Test Our 7 Levels of Obedience and Manners Advancing to: Special Skill Awards for the Service Dog Teams Special Trick Training for the Therapy Dog Teams After graduation, using the knowledge and techniques taught in the program will enable the person with disabilities to continue training the service dog to perform new tasks as the person's needs change. Therapy dog graduates will be able to learn new tricks to help with their therapy work.