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Originally Posted by candy4me Anyone have their pooch trained as a service dog?
I thinking it might just be good for the pup, even tho I don't need a service dog....  |
We wanted to Mya to be a Therapy Dog after only having her one week. We have been trying to get her in to Puppy Kindergarten only because she needs proof she has attened. She is pretty well behaved but could use some improvement with "stay".
I was told by some agencies that she needed to be one year old in order to get insurance on her incase she hurt a patient. One family sued after an elderly woman was scratched. Meanwhile I felt I really needed to socialize Mya and so I take her almost everywhere and let others pat her and hold her.
She has visited seniors clubs. I have her little vest with the patch "IN TRAINING" on it. I also looked in to service dogs and most handicapped people keep the dog. The only area I saw that was new that fell under "Service" and that was on a visitation program was for people suffering from Depression. As for now I am training her. She is getting used to groupls of people, I take her to the doctor's, hospital, dentists ...all for my own visits. She is on a waiting list for formal training and then we will try out at the Therapy Dog Agencies. After that we will try for the Service Dog Certification and if I have enough energy left I will enroll her with a casting agency as an extra, as I used to do that work myself.