How To Train Your Dog To Be A Service Dog. This is also when additional tasks are added as your health needs change. Once your pup performs reliably at that level, place the treats in a bowl on a table so that you have to reach into the bowl in order to treat your sdit.
Then.step 2, consider clicker training your dog. The dog must be of a size to comfortably and effectively execute the tasks needed to help mitigate a disability. Service dogs can range from very small to very large.
You can use either verbal cues or hand signals as commands.
Barks like mad when the doorbell rings? Then.step 2, consider clicker training your dog. The dog also needs to walk next to the handler in a controlled manner all the time. Depending on the tasks your service dog would perform, you can narrow down what breed of dog you need.