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This blog is placed here because of the excellent amount of information about Service Dog related things that are mentioned and discussed there in. Although this blog has little to do with our program,it is an excellent resource for Service Dog related information. Since part of our Association's Mission is to educate the public on Service Dog matters, we recommend that you spend some time reading through this blog.

Excellent working dogs can be and are produced by Owner-Trainer teams. Remember, most service dog teams are NOT produced from program trained dogs. Most large big budget programs retain full ownership rights to their dogs for a professed variety of reasons. These Programs do not just give away one of their dogs to a disabled person. The term commonly used today is presenting the dog. In actuality it often amounts to contracts consistent with the terms of leasing the dog with paying the program by performing for them at fund raisers, fund raising on your own, or other methods of bringing resources to the program.

Organizations such as ours are by far the larger contributor in the over all number of Service Dog teams. High Plains Service Dogs places an emphasis on the success of creating working teams. There are dozens of small community based programs, associations, or agencies similar to ours scattered through out
the North American Continent.

Those of us at High Plains Association of Service Dog Advocates has as Our mission doing what ever is in our means to see that the training and education offered to our members is among the very best available. Unless already educated in a behavioral field, few persons understand the rules or strict regime required to correctly shape and modify these dog's actions. It is part of our responsibility to help them learn why they do things the way they are instructed. This takes time, depending on the individual handler, that might take a considerable investment of time. They won't learn it over night.

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