The question today is if you are not looking at your dog or if your dog is just relaxing is he still expected to respond promptly ? The answer of course is YES! We were doing breathing patterns in class and the distractions included a loud fan, chair turned away and some food on the floor..Great job Devin and puppy raising family🥰 #alphabravocanine #veterans #servicedogs #lifechanger
Mae headed to the Big Apple for some distraction training..train, subway, traffic, suitcases, city noises, and finishing up at a piano bar. What a Great adventure!
Mae got a thumbs up on her eye exam, clean bill of health✔️ Good girl
When you start teaching different levels of changing breathing patterns and practice while they are distracted doing normal dog things in the yard and they understand the expectations…awesome job Mae!! Yes we expect our dogs to follow through on and off vest
Looking at your environment is normal for a dog..bringing the attention back to their handler is an expectation! Great job buddy
Working on “load” with different items! What do we use that cue for you ask? Because sometimes we need help with laundry detail and let’s be honest it’s nice when our dogs pick up their toys at the end of the day and put them away in their toy boxes ! #alphabravocanine #veterans #servicedogs
Adding movement to our carrying if an item..great job to Devin and his puppy raiser
One of the things that we teach our dogs is to watch for breathing pattern changes. When they are in the beginning of learning this we will start out with a louder breath like this one. Over time they get more in tune not only with that but with our body language. If we don’t respond to our dog right away they press in a bit more to redirect and this is done in every environment. This is a light pressure therapy. I’ll post another one with Stryker just watching body language and responding in the same way. #alphabravocanine #servicedogs #veterans #lifechangers #labs
A question that comes up all of the time.. do our dogs need to wear the vest on in the home? The answer is no..however..we still need them to follow through with requests off vest even while they are doing normal
Dog things like playing.. good job buddy
Devin is practicing his skills of “tug” which is in this case is pulling open a draw and “push” which is closing the cabinet. The dogs don’t open and close things unless they are given their cue to do so🐕🦺🇺🇸
Raising,Training and Donating service dogs to veterans living with PTSD, TBI and combat disability.
