Assistance Dog Club of Central Illinois

What are your training plans this weekend?

Weather is getting nicer. Let’s plan a get together.

First Meeting

I’m so excited to have made this page public/active again as I think there is interest now in a group of us that are or have owner trained their service dog! If you feel so inclined, introduce your self 🙂

This is a new resource available. This page supports positive training methods and lends good information. http://www.anythingpawsable.com

Anything Pawsable - News + More for Service and Working Dogs It’s easy to get overwhelmed at the thought of training a Service Dog. With so many concepts, behaviors, commands, manners, situations and ideals for Service Dogs in Training to master, it can be hard, as...

Tip of the day: The more opportunities available to preform a behavior the faster the behavior is learned.

Example: When teaching a dog to sit, ask that he perform the behavior before: petted, dinner, play time, outside, out of crate. All these are rewards for the dog's compliance to sit.

“Whenever an animal is forced into the service of men, everyone of us must be concerned of any suffering it bears on that account.

No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted, even though he would be interfering in something that does not concern him.

No one may shut his eyes and think he pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.”

Dr. Albert Schweitzer

http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-c/schweitzer01.pdf

http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-c/schweitzer01.pdf

Happy Fathers Day to all the dads!

http://pages-by-patty.hubpages.com/hub/A-Feel-Good-One-Day-Family-Project

How to Do-It-Yourself Kuranda Style Dog Beds~Great Family Project! What better way to spend a Saturday than with a good old-fashioned family project? And this is the perfect one! Animal shelters far and wide consider Kuranda Dog Beds the Holy Grail of donations. These beds allow shelter dogs to live a little more...

Just as dogs need intense training to learn the skills necessary for their professional life, handlers need this training as well. A team is only as good as its weakest link.

Bakin' for graduation class tonight at Capital Canine Dog Club! Smells yum!!

The 12 Days Of Cookies: Sherry Yard's Holiday Dog Biscuit Recipe When we kicked off the Twelve Days of Cookie Recipes with Alice Medrich's recipe for peanut butter clouds...