Assistance Dog Club of Central Illinois

05/18/2019

What are your training plans this weekend?

04/05/2019

Weather is getting nicer. Let’s plan a get together.

03/20/2019

First Meeting

02/25/2019

I’m so excited to have made this page public/active again as I think there is interest now in a group of us that are or have owner trained their service dog! If you feel so inclined, introduce your self 🙂

09/16/2013

This is a new resource available. This page supports positive training methods and lends good information. http://www.anythingpawsable.com

It’s easy to get overwhelmed at the thought of training a Service Dog. With so many concepts, behaviors, commands, manners, situations and ideals for Service Dogs in Training to master, it can be hard, as...

09/07/2013

Tip of the day: The more opportunities available to preform a behavior the faster the behavior is learned.

Example: When teaching a dog to sit, ask that he perform the behavior before: petted, dinner, play time, outside, out of crate. All these are rewards for the dog's compliance to sit.

07/25/2013

“Whenever an animal is forced into the service of men, everyone of us must be concerned of any suffering it bears on that account.

No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted, even though he would be interfering in something that does not concern him.

No one may shut his eyes and think he pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.”

Dr. Albert Schweitzer

http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-c/schweitzer01.pdf

06/16/2013

Happy Fathers Day to all the dads!

06/07/2013

http://pages-by-patty.hubpages.com/hub/A-Feel-Good-One-Day-Family-Project

What better way to spend a Saturday than with a good old-fashioned family project? And this is the perfect one! Animal shelters far and wide consider Kuranda Dog Beds the Holy Grail of donations. These beds allow shelter dogs to live a little more...

04/13/2013

Just as dogs need intense training to learn the skills necessary for their professional life, handlers need this training as well. A team is only as good as its weakest link.

02/25/2013

Bakin' for graduation class tonight at Capital Canine Dog Club! Smells yum!!

When we kicked off the Twelve Days of Cookie Recipes with Alice Medrich's recipe for peanut butter clouds...

12/26/2012