I have been working with my dog on these for about a week or two now. He will Take and Hold pretty well. He will let me take it from him, but he doesn’t actually Give yet. For Give, I want him to actually drop it into my hand. That isn’t happening yet, so we [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Still working on Take, Hold, Give
Posted in service dogs, tagged training on January 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Take, hold, give
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged service dog on January 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The next step for my little guy is to get him to take, hold, and give a small medicine pill container. Each night (not at medicine time), I work for a few minutes on him taking (me putting the container in his mouth), holding (keeping it in his mouth) and giving (letting go of the [...]
First steps in training a service dog
Posted in service dogs on January 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To start, I enrolled my pup in basic obedience. Once a week, we showed up and worked on basic commands like Sit, Stand, Down, Stay, Come, Heel and Wait. My guy had some trouble with Stand and Down. We did a lot of work on our own on those. He was naturally good with Come, [...]
