My Service Dog and Me

07/11/2025

Our My Service Dog and Me Academy has closed for the year, 🥹 however, did you know we have several other resources you can start with?

🌻Today we are highlighting our FREE youtube channel that has over 100 training videos.

Check out the link below and get started.

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

02/11/2025

1️⃣ MORE DAY!

Our My Service Dog and Me Academy will be closing tomorrow, Monday Nov. 3rd, 2025 at 12:00 midnight cst. ⏳

Go to the link below to get more information and join! We hope to see you there. 🤞🏼

https://www.myservicedogandme.com/academy2025

31/10/2025

🪜 What Tricks have you taught your SDIT?

🦴 What Treats does your dog prefer?

🐾 Tricks are great for your SDIT! They keep them busy, give them physical AND mental exercise, and the bonus…they can teach our dog steps to apply to tasks later on.

🐾 So let's talk about why trick training is one the best things you can do to prepare your service dog, and yourself, for task training in our FREE youtube video. Link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHbfpMNncbQ

🐾 DON’T FORGET: Our Academy closes on Monday, Nov. 3rd, 12:00 midnight cst.
Join now!
https://www.myservicedogandme.com/academy2025

29/10/2025

🗓️ Monday, November 3rd, (at midnight cst), our FREE task training webinar and our My Service Dog Academy will CLOSE.

🙋🏻‍♀️ Have you watched the FREE task training Webinar? If not follow the link below and join our classroom to watch the replay, and get two additional resources to view.

👏🏼 Did you join our My Service Dog and Me Academy? Only 5 more days! Follow the link below for more information and to join!

🔗https://linktr.ee/myservicedogandme

27/10/2025

Practice Makes Permanent

I hate to break it to you, but when it comes to training your dog, practice does not make perfect. 👉🏼 Practice makes permanent. 👈🏼 It’s the quality of your practice that matters.

What I mean is, practice alone isn’t going to solve any of your training challenges because if you keep practicing something that isn’t working, all you do is get really, really good at doing something that isn’t working.

Worse yet, if your dog keeps practicing something that isn’t right, your dog gets really, really good at something you don’t really want long term.

And here’s the thing about dog training:

🐕‍🦺 The magic is in the subtleties, the nuances and the small tweaks that make a huge difference.

🦮 Great dog training doesn’t just happen, and practice isn’t enough. Great dog training happens when you get the small things right, make the right tweaks, and practice correctly.

✏️ That’s where the academy comes in. ❣️When you’re a member of the Academy, you get access to step-by-step training plans you can follow AND you get access to our members-only Facebook group where you can make sure that when you practice something with your dog, you actually get it right.

🗓️ Only one week left before we close so JOIN NOW at link below ⬇️

https://www.myservicedogandme.com/academy2025

22/10/2025

❓Why is a hand target such an important foundation skill?

🦮 Service dog training is a lot like building with legos. Get the right core pieces and you can put them together over and over again, in different ways, to build completely different things. You can build a castle🏰 or you can build a car 🏎️- using the same pieces.

Training a service dog is no different. Train the right core skills and behaviors, and you can put them together in different ways over and over again to create new behaviors.

✋🏼Take a hand target for example. The simple behavior of teaching your dog to touch his nose to your hand.

This simple behavior can teach important skills like duration (pushing your hand multiple times for one treat), proofing (doing the behavior around distractions) and so much more.

But it also turns into tasks like alerts, turning on and off lights, closing doors, or pushing buttons. It’s important for finding help, can be using for grounding tasks, and so much more. 🔘

It’s not just one behavior. It’s a core lego block that you can use over and over again to train new, more “advanced” skills and behaviors.

And this is what foundation training truly is.

It’s about teaching the right skills (like duration and proofing) on the right behaviors (like hand targets) to create super efficient training that builds momentum and long term results too.

And this is exactly what we do in the Academy. Every single less teaches not just an important behavior (like sit, or stay, or hand target), but important skills too (like listening around distractions). So that when you reach the higher levels in the curriculum, you and your dog a truly prepared. 😊

⬇️ Follow the link to learn more, the doors close on November 3rd. 🗓️

https://www.myservicedogandme.com/academy2025

17/10/2025

SCHOLARSHIP CONTEST

Hello, hope everyone had a great week. We are looking forward to the weekend.

Wanted to let you know we have a FREE - THREE MONTH SCHOLARSHIP, for our MY SERVICE DOG AND ME ACADEMY, contest running in our other group: “Training Your Service Dog with Confidence (positive reinforcement training)”. It runs from today, Friday, October 17th through Friday, October 24th 12 midnight EST. (2025)

If you're already a member come on over and enter, if not follow the link below and join!

See you there!

Email us directly at: [email protected]

16/10/2025

🙋🏽‍♂️We want to answer your questions.

🐕‍🦺 The My Service Dog and Me team created a place where like-minded owner-trainers can come together to learn essential skills, access comprehensive training plans, and be part of a supportive community. ☺️

🗞️The good news? This reality doesn’t have to be a distant daydream; you don't have to reinvent the wheel.

🚦Go to our My Service Dog and Me Academy page and feel free to📮post any additional questions you have about our Academy in the comments below, and our team will be happy to help you. 😉

https://www.myservicedogandme.com/academy2025

14/10/2025

⁉️ We often get this question from prospective students:

"Is the Academy for puppies only?"

The answer is no, because a dog of any age still needs to establish good fundamentals, be properly socialized, and then learn all the skills to make a successful service dog. 🦮

💙 That is what’s great about the Academy because we take you through step by step.

🪜 We have three stages:

📍Stage one: Fundamentals

📍Stage two: Service Dog skills

📍Stage three: Advanced Service Dog Skills

Go to the link below ⬇️ and learn more about these stages, the Academy, and answers to other FAQ’s you may have.

https://www.myservicedogandme.com/academy2025

08/10/2025

🥳🎈🎉🥳 🎉🎈

😉 Have you been waiting to get started on your owner-training journey?

🗺️ Would you like to have a step by step roadmap to help you on your way?

*Our My Service Dog and Me Academy IS NOW OPEN! 👏🏽💙😊

Follow the link to join, and for further information. ↓↓

https://www.myservicedogandme.com/academy2025

See you soon. 😉

*For a limited time.

06/10/2025

📝 Have you signed up for our *FREE Task Training Workshop yet? 🦮

⏱️ It’s not too late:

Sign up ✍🏼 now for our FREE Task Training webinar
and get 2 FREE bonus items:

➕ The Effective Training Skills webinar
➕Clicker Training E-book

Live: Tuesday, October 7th 2025 at 6:30pm CST.

(Webinar, including replay, will be available *FREE for a limited time in our classroom.)

🔻LINKS🔻

TASK TRAINING WEBINAR
https://www.myservicedogandme.com/offers/JF8JQCqN/checkout

FULL LINKTREE (INCLUDING TASK TRAINING WEBINAR)
https://linktr.ee/myservicedogandme?lt_utm_source=lt_share_link #506840212

See you there! 🙋🏻‍♀️

03/10/2025

Don’t forget to sign up for our FREE Task Training Webinar, at the link below. Coming next Tuesday, October 7th at 6:30 pm CST.

Email us directly at: [email protected]