Course curriculum

  • 01

    What Is A Service Dog?

  • 02

    Factors in Training a Service Dog

    • Self-Control Exercises for Service Dog Candidates

    • Identifying Stress in Service Dogs

    • Intelligent Disobedience and Cognition

  • 03

    Focus of This Course

    • What you are working toward

    • Training Plans

    • Rudiments – Are You Ready?

  • 04

    Level One

    • Introduction

    • Week 1 THE NAME GAME

    • Week 1 Do You Really Know Sit?

    • Week 1 Teaching Your Dog to Do Nothing

    • Week 1 Directionals and Stretching

    • Week 2 Heeling Games

    • Week 2 I’ll Stay Right Here By Your Side

    • Week 2 Backing Up

    • Week 3 Target Training

    • Week 3 Handling Games

    • Week 3 Leave It

    • Week 3 Stand

    • Week 4 Stay and Place

    • Week 4 The Beginnings of Self Control

    • Week 5 Building Focus

    • Week 6 Leash Handling and Pressure

    • Week 6 Heel Position and Moving

  • 05

    Level One Testing

    • Canine Good Citizen Testing Items

    • Equipment

    • Encouragement, Failures and Dismissals

    • Submit a video for EACH testing item

  • 06

    Level Two

    • Level Two Covers

    • Awareness Training

    • Consistency is the Key to Dog Training

    • Week 1 Come To Heel

    • Week 1 More Backing up

    • Week 2 Go Over There

    • Week 2 It's All In The Wrist

    • Week 2 Go! on Cue

    • Week 2 Hold The Wall

    • Week 3 How To Teach Down

    • Week 3 Puppy Pushups (for any age)

    • Week 3 Pivots (more come to heel)

    • Week 3 Some Self-Control and Resource Guarding Prevention

    • Week 3 Introductory Scent and Puzzle Solving

    • Week 4 Some "Its"

    • Week 4 A Couple of Recall Games

    • Week 5 Look At That

    • Week 4 Stay Away From My Car !!

    • Week 5 A Couple of Games Involving Doors and People

    • Week 5 I Like Getting Dressed

    • Week 6 Play and recall games

  • 07

    Level Two Testing

    • AKC COMMUNITY CANINE TEST

    • Submit a video for EACH item

  • 08

    Level Three

    • Introduction

    • Week: 1 Handling Distractions (7 Games - 7 videos required)

    • Week 2 More "Its"

    • Week 2 Where’s The Beef

    • Week 2 Leaping Targets

    • Week 3 I Heard You The First Time

    • Week 3 Bowl Chores

    • Week 3 Go Through

    • Week 4 Release To Pressure

    • Week 4 Stay and Release

    • Week 4 Training the Walk

    • Week 4 Training Front

    • Week 4 Stop!

    • Week 4 Four Steps to an Emergency Distance Sit/Stay

    • Week 5 Do You See That

    • Week 5 Look Away, Walk Away

    • Week 5 Lose Your Dog Squirrel Level 1

    • Week 5 Whip it, Whip It Good

    • Week 5 Car Crashes

    • Week 6 Balance and Coordination

    • Week 6 Self Control

    • Week 6 Balance, Coordination and Speed

    • Week 6 Handling Distractions

  • 09

    Level Three Testing

    • AKC Urban Canine Good Citizen

    • Age Requirements for Dogs

    • Collar, Leashes and Equipment

    • Food

    • Handler/Dog Interactions During Test

    • AKC Urban Canine Good Citizen Test Items