Service Dog Training to Accept Strangers

Series Summary

Service dogs are specially trained assistance dogs used to help people with disabilities or impairments. They are often used as therapy dogs in hospitals to lift the spirits of patients, and encourage mobility. There are many organizations that provide service dog training, primarily focusing on acclimating dogs to working around people and general obedience training for the puppies. Some people choose to train their service or therapy dogs as individuals, and rescue animals from animal shelters in order to better not only a disabled persons life, but also the animals life.

In this free video series, our expert will teach you how to train service or therapy dogs. You will learn how to teach your dog basic skills, such as accepting friendly strangers, walking through crowds and of course, sit and stay. You will also learn how to train your service dog how to react to other dogs, or noisy distractions. If you are interested in helping people and animals, let our expert teach you the basics of service dog training in this free video series.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I’m Jim Leske an Animal Behaviorist & Trainer for Expert Village. Today we are talking about some of the training involved with making dog's therapy and or service dog's. This is my friend Tess, she is a K9 good cit son as well as a hospital therapies t dog. One of the training method we use with Tess is ,one of the training tip's on the test is called assenting a friendly stranger, it is very important for a dog to friendly to people they don't know as well as unfamiliar solutions. One of the why's we did is we sat in front of a local pet store or gorsy store and Tess just sat there in a sit position she got of all kind's of scratching and all kind's of patting, around all kind's of distraction there were people coming in and out , grocery cart's coming by in every direction .And she enjoys gowning to the hospital, it sparks her life it make's her week, and when they se a dog like Tess walk in and so that's part of the program, um and again it's just sitting there being friendly and comterble with all kind's of people walking around, so again I’m Jim Leske and thanks’ for watching Expert Village."