Training – Page 2 – The Pick-Up Artist

Out & about

Things have been quite busy for me on the work and personal front lately, so I haven’t had the chance to give an update until now. But rest assured that everything is going extremely well. I’ll do a separate post specific to the progress of our in-home tasks, but the big news is that weContinue reading “Out & about”

Let’s ride

This week I was given the green light to take G dog out for car rides! We’re not certified to go into public places together yet, but with my health situation, I won’t go anywhere public anyway without being fully vaccinated. (One more shot to go!) Car rides have been a simple but welcome sourceContinue reading “Let’s ride”

A little help from below

At this point, you may be wondering, “What is a service dog going to do for you?” Most of us seem conditioned to think of service dogs as only helping the vision-impaired or acting as emotional support animals. Service dogs can be trained to do a great many tasks, all with the goal of enhancingContinue reading “A little help from below”

Practice makes perfect

In the two weeks since G’s arrival, my Paws trainer Connie has been here three times in addition to when she first brought the dog. Each time, I fill out a progress report to talk about G’s health, what we’ve been working on, what he’s doing well consistently, and what commands he’s struggling with. HeContinue reading “Practice makes perfect”

Separation anxiety

I want to say that we’ve turned a corner. And we have, sort of. Saturday night, we got G to sleep in until 7 am, and there was no barking at all when we turned out the lights. And while that was indeed a win, he’s not listening as well as he had the firstContinue reading “Separation anxiety”