09/09/2024
We got so high yesterday. What did you do with your dog this weekend?
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Specializing in Diabetic Alert Dog training. Pet and service dog training utilizing only strict positive reinforcement methodology.
09/02/2024
Anyone else jealous of their dogs bed head? Suri always looks so cute after waking up. Do you know you can apply to have Suri be your service dog? She is available for placement soon.
08/21/2024
I have 150 lbs of multi colored tumor on my lower extremities. It makes it impossible to move. There are three distinct parts to it that all have sharp pointy teeth. Send help.
08/15/2024
I’ve been a service dog trainer since 2009 and this is the first time I’ve seen something like this in the US. There was a rescue in Colorado that has potentially exposed HUNDREDS of people to rabies at an adoption event. Not only do we have potential adopters exposed but if those puppies went to puppy classes then the people, friends, neighbors and animals that came into contact with them are now potentially exposed. This could get REAL BAD real quick. If you don’t think your dog needs its ranbies vaccine or to keep up on rabies vaccination you are sorely mistaken. This is what can happen when you don’t vaccinate your animals for this deadly disease. If I had a dog business in Colorado within a couple hundred miles of the exposure location I think I would probably shut down my business for a couple months due to the liability risk of this becoming a full blown outbreak.
08/01/2024
I literally spent an hour and a half catching up with a service dog student from 2010 who was inspired by her experience and has now become a professional dog trainer. How amazing is that?
07/30/2024
Caption this photo, I dare you.
07/26/2024
When you’re raising dogs to be a service dog,, there is no guarantee that they will be healthy enough for service work. As Ive suggested in a lot of my YouTube videos and free content you want to do as much as possible to make sure that you are successful and one of those things is making sure that the mother and father have a good hips and elbows. Amen dear Jesus, we did it! All the working and protecting and the waiting and the praying resulted in some excellent hips. Thank you dear Jesus!
07/22/2024
Please pray for us. On Wednesday we have three pups heading into the vet for their hip and elbow X-rays to make sure they are healthy enough to be a service dog. Once they get the all ok, they can be scent trained for their potential owners and be working service dogs in a matter of 6 to 8 weeks. Do you need an already trained service dog?
07/21/2024
I don’t think you can find a better friend in this world than an old yellow Labrador. He’s such a good boy. I can’t believe he will be 11 in October.
07/13/2024
What are you and your pup doing to keep cool in this heat? If it was me, I’d hang out in Costcos freezer section all day.
07/11/2024
Ella is so stinkin cute and did great at Costco for not being out in public in a while. Let’s see your stinkin cuties.
07/09/2024
Yesterday Talia went with me to get a haircut and did amazing despite being tangled up in the cord for the hairdryer. She will make someone a great service dog. Do you know anyone who needs an already trained service dog for any disability?
07/07/2024
As a person who was made homeless with 5 dogs and a cat for almost 6 months due to divorce, I am still utterly speechless about the supreme courts decision to allow the criminalization of the homeless. This is supposed to be a Christian nation and we decide to treat the homeless like the biblical lepers. If you think homelessness is about drug use think again. West Virginia has the highest per capita drug use in the entire United States, but one of the lowest homelessness rates because they have affordable housing. Homelessness happens because of a lack of affordable housing not because people do drugs. I had to leave Seattle because I lost my status as a two person household and couldn’t afford to live there, not because I was a drug addict. My dog training studios rent went from $1200 a month to $2400 a month in three years. Who can afford that level of inflation? If you can’t imagine being homeless with your service dog, you need to think again. I never thought it would happen to me but it did and I will NEVER think of homelessness the same ever again.
This photo is of me doing my Medical Alert Dog Monday video on a beach in Florida, pretending to not be homeless.
07/03/2024
So my neighbor is setting off buku fireworks tonight and my movies to go to to drown out the sound are Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Terminator 2 and Back to the Future. Anybody else have any good suggestions for loud movies?
06/27/2024
I’m part of a Facebook group that advocates for better diets for dogs through raw feeding. I posted on there for the first time that I had secured a clearance 40lb box of boneless skinless chicken breast from Costco for $50 and the vitriol from the group was unbelievable. If you had not seen the post you would have thought that I posted that I was planning on feeding the dog’s plutonium. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such blatant rich, hoity-toity privilege in my life. Everything has to be pasture raised, antibiotic free, organic combined with hundreds of dollars of supplements a month or else you might as well euthanize your dog. There is no middle ground with a LOT of dog people, they really are something else.
06/25/2024
It’s time to remind you what a dog with heat stroke looks like. See this photo of these three dogs. Two of them are almost to the point of heat stroke, and the other is in heat stroke. When your dogs tongue starts cupping and the mouth is pulled all the way back it means that your dog is starting to get into the heat stroke danger zone. As soon as the tongue falls over to the side and is cupping your dog is in heat stroke and needs to get attention immediately!
06/21/2024
One of these days I’m gonna name one of my program dogs Daisy. Do you have names for your future dogs already picked out?
06/12/2024
Keep praying for Grandma Service Dog Academy. She has a serious bacterial infection and is in partial isolation at this point which means no more visits from me or the pupperonis.
06/10/2024
Grandma Service Dog Academy ended up barely eating and drinking for days and is now septic. Please pray for her healing.
06/09/2024
Did you know your dog trainer has something called aphantasia? It means when I try to imagine things, I see nothing. Literally nothing. It made reading books so boring and incredibly tough. I’m such a visual and audio learner. I guess that’s why I enjoyed physically being in school, classes and conferences so much. My brain did compensate though and give me an ability to hear music. If you wanted me to recall the entire 4 minutes and 27 seconds of the John Williams’s March from Superman I can definitely hear that in my head! Sometimes I wonder how much more of a normal person I could have been if I just had an imagination. A lot of us dog trainers are differently enabled. I don’t think there has been a study on it but it’s definitely noticeable.
06/07/2024
Talia and Etta just got back from the vet today after getting screened for hip and elbow dysplasia. The vet said they both look great. I cannot tell you what a relief it is to have this news. I’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars and thousands of hours with these girls and what a relief it is to find out not only are they temperamentally stable but are solid physically. If I had the energy, I’d throw a party! Thank you everyone for your support. I can actually breathe again. The other pups are up in a couple of weeks due to their cycles affecting the timing of the X-rays. So please pray for good results for them too. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!
06/06/2024
This is a great example of what very young puppies are like. If you have an anxiety condition and are trying to socialize your own puppy for service work, what you eventually end up with is a puppy that is afraid of what you are afraid of. This is why I don’t recommend anybody with an anxiety condition train their own puppy for service work.
06/04/2024
Veronica Korzha decided to submit a fraudulent DOT form saying her dog Dorothy was trained by Service Dog Academy in order to get it on an airplane. Here is Veronica’s page and her employer Moda Operandi, Inc where she works as an accountant. Accountants have very important responsibilities in a company, too bad they decided to hire a person who decided to commit fraud. Maybe you should contact them about her too.
06/03/2024
I want to thank Nicole, Maria and Steve and the random anonymous donor. All together we have received two bags of food and one bag of treats. Thank you so much! It’s been a rough health week for me thanks to endometriosis and migraines so these surprises have helped. Not only are you supporting service dog training but also a small ministry. I pray for my students and try to use the gifts God has given me for good. Some of my students have seen their medical conditions disappear thanks to prayers and some have had 75% improvement and come back asking for more. Although this job is financially challenging it’s so incredibly rewarding. You make testimonies like this possible…
05/31/2024
Scent medical alert dog problems... I just got dog snot in my mouth. A photo of the offending party fast asleep. Can anyone else relate?
05/28/2024
On Saturday we attempted our arrive late to a baseball game and hit up a scalper and didn’t end up with tickets so we roamed the streets finding socialization items to interact with including a horse drawn carriage and the teeniest tiniest little yorkie puppy that was almost the size of one of our dog toys. What did you do on your Memorial Day weekend?
05/27/2024
I spent almost all day yesterday sick and in excruciating pain. I thought my I had eaten something bad but it turns out it was another endo attack. The cherry on top was a gigantic storm rolled in and trigged a migraine. I am you. There is no one who can understand life’s challenges like someone who lives it themselves. Here’s a cute puppy nose to brighten your day.
05/26/2024
Today is my birthday. For my birthday I am asking for help with dog food and vet bills. I have less than ONE day of dog food left. You can donate using Zelle using my phone number at 206-355-9033 or by purchasing items from our Amazon wish list. Amazon list is in the comments. If you cannot donate please share this post with your friends. I’ve help train over 300 service dogs so far and want to continue to do so but need help.
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Marine Corps Vet goes from disabled by migraines to enabled and living life again thanks to a Service Dog Academy Medical Alert Dog training class. Keep an eye on our YouTube channel to see the full video.
Six Flags Halloween show for socialization of Dax. Fire, loud music, dancers crawling all over and even smoke. She did AMAZING. She really is going to be the best service dog for someone. If you know someone who needs a trained alert dog, Dax will be available for Christmas placement.
I started this business because I am you. Here I am asking myself at 4 am in the morning do I treat and stay up the rest of the morning shaking from the jittery effect of the albuterol or try to fall asleep while I can barely breathe. I chose… breathing.
I forgot how LOUD bleachers were. Going to a high school football game is not like attending a pro sport game. Kids here are allowed to run, scream and act a fool and it was such great exposure for Talia.
Fist movie in a theater since Covid. Can you guess which one it was?
Talia says, “Costco is SOOOOOO boring. No costumes, no light saber fights, no kiddos to play with. It’s enough to kill a baby puppy like me. Hrumph.”
After spending over 5 years socializing and training service dog candidates in Six Flags St. Louis I was denied access with two service labradoodle puppies in training. It was rather surprising given the security personnel, police and staff all at recognized me from years past. Missouri law was updated on August 28th to now cover dogs in training as service dogs. You can read the entirety of the new law with a Google search of 209.200 which includes the rephrasing of service dogs to be “a dog that is being or has been individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability.” I will personally be pursuing a legal case against the park for their blatant disregard for Missouri law and will share what I learn in this process with all of you. I would encourage you to contact Six Flags and share how disappointed you are with their denial of access to a person with multiple disabilities trying to train dogs to help other disabled people.
It took a couple days of very slow introductions but it seems the puppies have figured out how to eat a frozen Kong! The Kongs are filled with plain kibble and topped off with Green Juju Just Greens Blend. Eventually the whole Kong will be filled with a wet frozen food but they are not old enough for that level of toy yet. Kongs help with anxiety and destructive boredom. We always try to have at least 1 for each dog in the freezer at all times just incase something happens and we need to crate them in an emergency.
Watch 7 month old labradoodle Aaron self-handicapping for his 5 labradoodle sisters while playing with them. He’s doing so amazing with these babies. The three chocolate puppies are still available for placement in pet or service dog homes. Ps: It’s not “perfect” play because there is no role reversals but it’s pretty decent for the second session.
Yesterday we went back to the nursing home with the puppies. This is the result. The smiles on these ladies faces was just magical.
Research now proves that we’ve known for a long time. That introducing your puppy to multiple protein sources while it’s first eight weeks of life can have such a significant impact on your dogs development of future allergies. It means that the more real whole food and protein sources that I introduce your puppy to the healthier your puppy will be in the future. Yesterday we ate bully sticks, himalayan yak chews, and lamb marrow chips.
Green girl has figured out the puzzle toys. She’s so smart.
The labradoodle puppies first day with puzzle toys.
The adventure box is always a hit. We still have Labradoodle puppies from this litter available for pet and service dog homes.
It was the nicest day so far since the puppies were born so we had to take advantage of it by making their first outdoor adventure fun by using mommy to nurse the puppies upon going outside.
Fist day with the adventure box and first potty in the potty box live on camera. I’m so proud of these babies!!! If you would like a Labradoodle puppy for service work or a pet dog home there are still puppies available!
Watch 7 4 week old labradoodle puppies eat for the first time in their entire lives. Share this video with your friends. We still have puppies available for service work and pet dog homes.
Despite never playing with a dog smaller than him, Aaron is doing amazing with these baby labradoodle puppies.
Today the labradoodle puppies are officially 3 weeks old. Watch them as they learn to play with one another. Please share this video with your friends.
Aren’t these puppers just too cute?
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