Category Archives: Autism Service Dogs

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  ‘Heeling’ with Mary Kay

  Posted on October 31, 2015 by Sophy760 in Autism Service Dogs, Our Dear Friends, Service Dog Training, Service Dogs, Training

  One of the trainer-experts Love Heels relies on most is Mary Kay Snyder of Unleashed Potential K9 San Diego (formerly Pettiquette 101). Once a month Mary Kay conducts advanced service dog trainings for an invited group of service dog teams. She is a master trainer who specializes in fine-tuning service teams and has been a […]

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  Happy Birthday, Phoebe!

  Posted on May 22, 2014 by Sophy760 in Autism Service Dogs, New Puppy-in-Training

  Michelle reports that Phoebe, one of our favorite Love Heels pups, is now a year old! Phoebe’s “boy” Nick and the rest of the family feted the pup in style. Handsome Nick will officially become a teen-ager next month. They grow up too fast! Enjoy some snaps of the happy duo:

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  Happy Trails

  Posted on February 13, 2014 by Sophy760 in Autism Service Dogs, New Puppy-in-Training, Service Dog Training, Service Dogs, updates

  Happy Trails The hardest service dog skill for Dancer is ignoring other dogs when she’s trail-walking with her boy or training-trail-walking with me. But after much trial and error, I think I’ve found the right way to keep her focused on my command to “leave it” when another dog walks by. The trick is in […]

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  Siblings of a Different Species

  Posted on January 12, 2014 by Sophy760 in Autism Service Dogs, Service Dogs

  Every time Zander hang out on Dancer’s new “dog bed” and every time Dancer walks over her new “dog bed” to hang out on Zander’s mini-trampoline, I am reminded that Zander and Dancer are a lot like siblings:   They covet (and command) each other’s toys. They sometimes tussle over toy (with Dancer usually giving […]

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  Phoebe Meets (and Eats) Snow!

  Posted on December 14, 2013 by Sophy760 in Autism Service Dogs, New Puppy-in-Training, updates

  Love Heels puppy extraordinaire Phoebe and her boy Nick checked out the snow at SeaWorld recently with mom Michelle.               Nick loved the snow, but Phoebe would rather eat it than touch it.  She would go only as far as the edge of the snow. The snow was cold […]

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  Phoebe at Work!

  Posted on November 7, 2013 by Sophy760 in Autism Service Dogs, New Puppy-in-Training, New Team Member, Training, updates

  Cute Phoebe the puppy checked out a future “career” at the front desk of Nazareth House this week. Here she is answering the phone with Liz, the receptionist. Liz really likes Phoebe, but all parties agree that she should keep her regular job taking care of her forever family.  Still, everyone admired her patience and good […]

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