There are two distinct sections in the Service Dog Training Series offered at e-Training for Dogs, Inc. for novice or inexperienced trainers -
- Service Dog Preparation Series (Getting Ready Series)
- Service Dog Training Series
To learn more about each and to decide which courses are best for you, please click on the relevant Series below.
Service Dog Preparation Series (Getting Ready Series) This series of courses will guide you through the sometimes confusing landscape of service dog ownership.
I. Getting Ready: How to Get a Service Dog
II. Getting Ready for a Service Dog
III. When You Get a Service Dog
For fifteen years, people have called Myra Fourwinds when they first start to think about service dogs. They need answers to many questions about service dogs:
- What is a service dog?
- What does a service dog need to be trained to do?
- How can you tell if a dog is trained as a service dog?
- What is the most efficient and quickest way to get a service dog?
This series of courses was written to answer those questions. Starting from the very beginning, these courses walk you through the information you need to be successful in getting a service dog.
The step-by-step, user-friendly format combines all the information about getting and training service dogs collected over the fifteen years Fourwinds has been active in the field.
“For all the people who have called asking for directions, these courses were written. Here is a roadmap of sorts I made for you, to help you along the way.”
Start the “Getting ready” series as soon as you begin thinking about if a service dog is right for you. The courses will help to guide you through the maze, and out the other side.
Service Dog Training Series This series of courses will take you step-by-step through the training of a Service Dog.
Section One: Foundations Skills for Handlers and Dogs
I. Basics
II. Core Elements
Section Two: Building Blocks
III. Sum of the Parts
IV. Constructing Tasks
Section Three: Customizing Training and Tasks
V. Individual Specialization For Persons with Disabilities Training Their Own Dogs for Service Dog work.
Section Four: Public Access
VI. Working in Public
Section Five: Other Service Dog Issues
VII. Multiple Dogs
VIII. Service Dogs and the Law: Federal and State
This series of courses was designed for the inexperienced novice trainer to be able to train their own dog from the ground up. Each course should take about eight weeks, so you could start with a ten-month-old dog, and at eighteen months have everything you need trained to be a service dog.
People that actually have a dog they want to train to be a service dog should start one or the other of the training tracks right away.
This series of courses will take you step-by-step through the training of a Service Dog. Dog training does not happen quickly, but is a process. Learning to be patient and systematic in training is the most efficient path to the end goal. There is no way to speed up the training process, and skipping steps will only land you back where you began. These courses are designed to guide you through the steps of establishing reliability in every aspect of training you address.
These courses are taught by Myra Fourwinds owner and founder of Dog Services. Myra has trained dogs professionally for 30 years, and has been involved in obedience, protection, agility, herding, search-and-rescue, drug detection, therapy and service dog training. Her personal experience with disability led her deeply into the training of service dogs, and in 1987 she graduated from Dr. Bonnie Bergin’s Assistant Dog Institute Instructor Course. Myra prefers to teach handlers to train their own service dogs.
For Professional dog trainers seeking the knowledge and skills to work in the Service Dog Training field please see our Service Dog Trainer Certification program).
(Service Dog Training; Assistance Dog Training)
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