Just a reminder if you don’t remember we are training Baron ourselves to be a Guide Dog.

Hi Bianca, thank you! I’m glad you’re enjoying the articles. As far as I know the service dog organizations only supply the manuals to the puppy raisers. It’s funny you brought this up though because my plan is to put together a series of blog posts that will detail how we will raise and train our next service dog puppy. The information will be based on my experiences raising puppies for several different service dog organizations. Then at the beginning of next year I will raise another service dog puppy and I plan on sharing his/her journey to become a service dog. If you have any specific questions or if there’s information you’re interested in please feel free to leave me a comment or shoot me an email.

Yeah, I think the dog cot is more comfortable then the mat. One thing I noticed is how easy she found the Carlson bed to target once she figured out what I wanted her to do. I’m wondering if using “Go To Your Bed” will help her be more accurate with her targeting when I ask her to “Go To Your Mat”.

Thanks! She should be the model 🙂 Raven doesn’t bark when we redirect her to the bed. Right now I’m working on transferring the cue so that when she here’s the doorbell she immediately goes to her bed rather than me telling her “Go To Your Bed”. I’ll let you know how it goes.

If Raven is sent to her bed for barking at the doorbell, does the redirecting usually work or does she bark while on her bed? (And for what it’s worth, I totally think she should have been the model on the box!)