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CADENCE continues to make progress as she works on learning and perfecting all skills needed for a potential career as a Bracing Service Dog. Right now, Cadence is working on a behaviour where she provides forward momentum to help a client stand from a seated position and is practicing getting that skill reliably on cue. Cadence is spending lots of time working in a lightweight bracing harness and is practicing having her harness held and walking as a counterbalance for a client who may have issues balancing. Cadence is also working on sharpening her basic service skills like β€˜button’ and retrieve and is working on more complicated retrieve games like retrieving her food dish at mealtime and finding and retrieving a walking cane from various places around the house and even outside! We hope to have Cadence ready for pre-placement testing in the next couple of months and look forward to sharing more successes soon!

  • Skills being learned: β€˜Pull’, β€˜button’, retrieve, adding more difficult items and environments, counterbalance, β€˜step’
  • Recent field trips: Various field trips as needed with her advanced sitters
  • Possible behavior challenges: Separation anxiety
  • Advanced training location: Burnaby/Lower Mainland – Satellite
  • Potential career path: Assistance Dog

Thank you again for all your support of Advanced Dog Cadence!

Submitted by: Training Program Manager Margaret Hicks