A Dog's Choice Training Services

18/06/2025

🐾 Great news for our community! 🐾

13cabs has introduced key updates to improve the travel experience for passengers with assistance animals. 🚖

These include better driver training and smoother, more inclusive service across the board. It’s an encouraging step forward for those of us who rely on our dogs for independence, support, and safety.

Let’s keep moving towards a more accessible world. 💙
Read more about these updates: http://13ca.bs/9YU

13cabs Supports Passengers with Assistance Dogs For "Respectful" Travel

12/06/2025

🐾 Just watched Inside the Mind of a Dog on Netflix — highly recommend! 🐕
It gives an amazing look at how dogs think and feel, especially the way service dogs are trained to support their people. 🦮💛

If you love learning about what makes our dogs so incredible — check it out 👉 Inside the Mind of a Dog🎬 Watch now on Netflix: Inside the Mind of a Dog

Embarking on a delightful journey into the world of dogs that reveals scientific and emotional insights about the lovable BFFs.

06/06/2025

📜 Professional Development Update
Today I completed the Service Agreement Refresh: Adapting to the Changing NDIS workshop by DSC.

This training focused on navigating the evolving NDIS landscape and improving how we approach service agreements—ensuring they remain clear, ethical, and participant-focused.

For me, this isn’t just a certificate—it represents an ongoing commitment to staying informed and delivering best-practice support for those I work with through A Dog’s Choice.

27/05/2025

🎓 **"Dog training school, but I think my grandson just got recruited as an assistant trainer!

26/05/2025

🐾 Attention Current Service Dog Teams! 🐾

New group training sessions are now available on the Members Dashboard! 🎉

📍 Upcoming Training Locations: ✅ Gympie ✅ Pimpama ✅ Samford

These sessions provide a great opportunity to refine skills, strengthen public access behaviors, and work alongside other handler teams in a supportive environment.

I’ll also be heading to Cairns and Townsville around August and September for assessments and training—stay tuned for more details!

Head over to the Members Dashboard to check out the latest updates, training logs, resources, and videos to support your service dog journey!

🐶 See you at training! 🐶

26/05/2025

🐶 Tailored Training for Future Service Dogs! 🐶

I specialise in training service dogs to meet the unique needs of their handlers. Whether working on public access skills, task training, or confidence building, my guidance ensures dogs are prepared for real-world challenges.

✨ Why Service Dog Training Matters: ✅ Builds reliability & trust in working environments ✅ Strengthens essential commands for independence ✅ Develops calm behavior in public spaces & high-distraction areas

As an NDIS Animal Assistance provider, I also work with a majority of self-funded handler teams, ensuring accessible and effective training. Group sessions are at no cost within my program, providing valuable opportunities for dogs and handlers to refine their skills in a supportive environment.

To further support training, I offer a Members Dashboard portal packed with training logs, resources, videos, and much more, catering to all aspects of service dog development.

I also collaborate with fantastic trainers in various locations to provide additional expertise and support throughout the service dog journey.

I provide training remotely, as well as in-person sessions across Brisbane, Gold Coast, Gympie, and beyond. I also travel to Cairns and Townsville multiple times a year for assessments and training support.

🌐 Learn more at adogschoice.com.au

🐾 Your service dog’s journey starts here—let’s train for success! 🐾

30/04/2025

Congratulations to these two proud pooches 🐕‍🦺🐾🐕‍🦺🐾 in Cairns!
Team Rosie and Chewie successfully met the In Training jacket criteria and start their public access journey moving forward.
Well done to their handlers on the lovely and consistent training shown to achieve this and venture out for the next big step.
I look forward to seeing these teams continue to support and assist their handlers to navigate the world more confidently and independently.
Awesome work! 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐕‍🦺🐕‍🦺🐕‍🦺🐕‍🦺🤗

29/04/2025

Congratulations to teams Bailey and Daisy who went through their Public Access assessment here in lovely Cairns 😊🐕‍🦺🐾
Very impressive show and demonstration of skills learnt and carried out.
The independence that both these dogs have been able to provide to their recipients is fantastic.
The purpose of these assessments is to ensure that the service dog demonstrates appropriate public behavior, disposition, and is unobtrusive in public places. It also examines temperament and the handlers control to determine reliability in situations commonly encountered by these teams.
Most importantly that the dog is safe to be in public and demonstrate the high standards of training expected of service dogs.
In assessing and verifying these two lovely teams, I was able to validate and be very satisfied that they kicked this major goal!
Throughout the program they were also assessed on trained specific tasks to mitigate their individual disability and their understanding of etiquette, rights and responsibilities.
Well done team Bailey and Daisy, you got through it and with the help of your equally awesome dogs, keep on keeping on!
🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐕‍🦺🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐕‍🦺

27/04/2025

Good morning Cairns and see you soon! Boarding the plane in a few minutes with no time to spare as I hit the ground running with two PATs this afternoon and an equally busy schedule until Thursday midday!
Looking forward to meeting up with both old and new teams, most of all my dearest friend Linda 😊🐾🐕‍🦺🐾🐕‍🦺🐾🐕‍🦺
See you soon!

24/04/2025

🌸🏵️Lest we forget our beautiful creatures who served alongside our brave service men and women 🌸🏵️

23/04/2025

This Friday, 25th April, we pause to pay our respects to those before us, in front of us and ahead of us who have paid the ultimate sacrifice, who defend us, our values and our freedom - to all our veterans past and present THANK YOU for your service.

07/04/2025

Making my way to sunny Townsville tomorrow morning for a couple of days to meet some teams and to conduct a PAT renewal for one of my awesome teams ;) 🐾🐕‍🦺🐾🐕‍🦺
Look out Cairns am headed your way end of the month 😉