Thank you @Amanda Taulborg for inviting me out to group class to work with Joy yesterday! I appreciate everyone for their kind words, encouragement, and overall just being so welcoming! Joy is such a special girl, and I look forward to working with her more 🩷 Hope to see you all next week!

@Kenzie Carlson put together a super helpful video showing the difference between a basic service dog vest and a few different service dog custom made capes. She walks through the different wording and patches you can add, along with some tips and tricks she’s picked up along the way! One big recommendation from Kenzie: make sure your cape has pockets — they come in handy! To clarify: in this video, the cape is shown attached to a counterbalance mobility support harness, but capes and custom made service vests can also be ordered for non-mobility purposes. If you’re looking for a custom-made vest or cape, Etsy is one of the best places to find options. A huge thank you to @Kenzie Carlson for creating this video and to @Stepho Wilson for editing it — you are the best! 🐾🙌

🎉 Everyone, please welcome our newest addition, Sandy the Goldendoodle! 🐾 She’s a little champion rock star and jumping into her very first Spot lesson! Learning SPOT is going to help her in so many ways — it builds balance, boosts confidence, gets her comfortable with new surfaces, teaches her a front-feet target, and helps her develop rear-end awareness. These foundations are not just fun, they’re hugely beneficial for her future as a service dog! Spot training carries over into a variety of advanced tasks and behaviors she’ll be learning down the road!

We forgot our spot at home so we improvised with a bucket lid 🤣 Gotta do what ya gotta do! He did great, wish it had slid a little less but we had to make due with what we had.

We went to Lowe’s with our friend @Ashley Justus and her service dog, Koda this morning! The boys did great! We saw Halloween (and Christmas lol) decorations, saw other dogs, worked around each other, and did some obedience practice! Here’s a few recall practice videos of Atlas, he did great compared to last time I took videos which was at work a few weeks ago.