08/15/2025
Who would you trust to train your Service Dog? How about your CHILD'S Service Dog?
Choose experience. Here's why:
The dog must do its job when you aren't present. Your child and their dog must be a reliable team.
The dog must be under complete control of the handler. Even a non or lesser communicative child must be taught alternative communication methods with their dog.
The dog must be properly selected. The personalities must mesh. Your child with sensory issues must be considered in the process. Your child must be comfortable with their working partner and a proper relationship of trust must be built.
We've been training Service Dogs for over a decade. We have successfully placed dogs all over North America for different disciplines. Here's the thing... we don't often work with younger children because, as you can imagine, it is a big, big task.
Tanner selected the perfect dog, built a relationship of trust with this child and his parents. This is the result of lots of hard work, dedication to the child's well-being and to the dog! They still have work to do, but what a difference this dog is already making in this child's life!
Hats off to Tanner and the team for this amazing placement. It warms my heart and gets me in the feels to see this come across my texts today. I'm excited, not only for Tanner and our team, but for this child to experience freedom in his own way.
- Steve (Tanner's sappy dad)
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