Breeding, Care, and Training for Service Dogs | The Pet Initiative Training

Service Dog Training is more than just pets despite their adorable or regal appearance. They have been educated to aid those who are disabled in their day-to-day lives so as to lessen their need for outside help and so increase their autonomy. Dog Training teaches dogs how to do things like pull a wheelchair, open doors, turn on and off lights, and pick up dropped items. That education has the potential to save someone's life.

About 12 percent of the population, or 40 million Americans, have a disability. Many of these folks with various disabilities are benefiting from Service Dog Training.

Service Dog Training requires a significant investment of time, energy, and materials. There's a lot more involved in the eighteen- to twenty-four-month trip than you might think.

Breeding

This process actually starts long before they become adorable puppies. The path to Educated Canines Assisting with Disabilities (The Pet Initiative Training) begins with careful breeding due to the high standards of health, ability, and temperament required for Service Dog Training.

From two to four litters of future Service Dog Training are born each year at Educated Canines Assisting with Disabilities (The Pet Initiative Training). There are a variety of methods for breeding dogs, and some groups even use rescued animals. The Pet Initiative Training has found that their placement success rate for service dogs for people with disabilities increases to 93% when the dogs come from the same litter. Historically, this success rate was around 60% when using rescue dogs.  

With the exception of certain breeder gifts, the Pet Initiative Training breeding program is entirely dependent on Labrador and Golden Retrievers for their exceptional physical and mental health. Female breeders with calm demeanors, good health, and a history of successful training are used exclusively in the program. The maximum number of litter a female can have is four.

The Pet Initiative Training only allows healthy, happy, and self-assured bulls into their breeding program. The Pet Initiative Training also collaborates with other Service Dog Training companies to conduct research. Through these collaborations, the sector may keep growing a strong bloodline optimized for service work. 

Birth

Volunteer puppy nannies take care of these puppies from the minute they are born. These remarkable individuals devote countless hours to familiarizing the puppies with human sensations and scents. In order to give the puppies the best possible head start in their Service Dog Training, they are exposed to a wide variety of environments and stimuli as they get older.

Infancy Programs

Puppies destined for Service Dog Training are sent to a team of caring individuals, known as the "nursery team," when they are eight weeks old. Puppies that spend time with a nursery team develop skills such as car travel, good manners around the house, and familiarity with family life. Puppies can sit, down, come, watch me, and sleep through the night in a crate by the time they are nine months old. What's more, they've seen and experienced things that would be impossible to duplicate in a classroom setting. 

The Pet Initiative Training School

Around the ninth or tenth month, the puppies graduate from the nursery to more formal instruction. Within a year, kids can acquire as many as sixty orders that can be used in tandem to assist a person with a disability with activities of daily life. 

Specialized skills are taught and mastered between the ages of 12 and 14, when more advanced learning occurs. The teachers use this time to match the dogs' personalities and abilities with those who have requested canine companions. When a good fit is found, in-depth discussions with the customer are undertaken to learn about their unique needs. 

The final instruction is tailored specifically to each client's needs. The Pet Initiative Training Service Dog Training has undergone up to 1,500 hours of instruction and socializing before a customer enters for team training.

Help Worth Every Penny

Many resources are expended during the course of Service Dog Training's breeding, raising, and education, but the benefits are immeasurable. The Pet Initiative Training has helped hundreds of people find a dog to improve their quality of life and increase their independence. Team Training has been a game-changer for certain people, like Adrian, who has autism, and Tony, a veteran.

We encourage you to explore our offerings if you or a loved one could gain from Service Dog Training.