Have you been looking around for your first service dog or a sucessor dog?  you have come to the right place.  Here at Labrdogs Training I am able to offer you a well bred pup that has been introduced to the world of a disability long before you ever take them home.  I myself am a service dog user.  I trained my first service dog in early 2004 to assist in pulling me up from a sitting possition. Little did I know back then that I was teaching this boy to be a service dog.  It wasn't until 2006 that I realized what I had taught him was a task one that by law allowed him to be a service dog.  I have severe arthritis due to an ACL repair that went wrong as well as four breaks in my foot along with a dislocation that was never set properly due to being a low income patient.  I live with this every day.  yet this boy was something special for me and I never knew it until it was too late for him.  I was forced to give him away because the laws for homeowners don't provide a special law that a service dog is not a dog but a medical device and is not to be counted as just a pet dog in the city dog counts.  

I had also began training an alert dog in 2006.  She is a much smaller lab who showed me what she knew.  I had been having seizures for about two years that were coming very often, it was this very special pup that I brought into my life that would be my second trained service dog.  She has been by my side since she was 8 weeks of age.  I never planned to ad her to my life but she had plans herself to become a part of my life.  She has safed me many times and has assisted in finding me a place to rest when she knows a seizure is coming on.

Next I began to train and put her training on hold a third dog who I would like to cross train.  She was a pup that I bred.  She is a larger lab who has the ability to become a mobility assist dog as well as continued alerting as she alerted at 6 weeks of age seconds before a  seizure hit.  She has a different alert system as she will nose me instead of a special look.  She was taught that a nose was a good thing.  She is not so much of a mobility dog as she isn't fond of pulling my weight up.  She has been on hold for about a year as she has wanted to be a puppy and couldn't get her focus while out.  I am looking to start working with her again in hopes that she will be able to focus better and be able to do the job I would like of her.  If not that is ok with me.  She has been working at home with alerts along with protecting me during the night from falling out of bed.  She has been taught along with her Mother and sister to sleep on either side of me.  Each pup has their spot in bed and don't move during the night unless they need to and then one of the others takes and changes possitions to better protect.

We also started to train for a wonderful woman who had recently retired her one year old service dog due to vision problems.  She and I had happened to meet while shopping and discused my breeding program and a very special puppy that I still had who I thought about training as a back-up.  We talked more over the weeks and even though my heart wanted to keep Cole a black lab, son of my seizure alert dog, I knew that Kim needed him even more than I did.  We have stayed in touch and she is teaching me more and more about other aspects of the workign dog that I have not trained the pups for.  My heart will always have a piece of Cole missing but I know I can find that piece of Cole in Kim's heart.

We have bred trained or placed a Wheelchair dog for a gentleman who has CP, Mobility dog, Seizure alert/mobility assist dog hopeful, an adult autistic companion, Mobility/ panic alert dog.

Do you need a service dog and have the ability to train the dog yourself, along with the dedication to do the training?  If you have the dedication please contact us at Labrdogs Kennel.  We don't sell our pups at Thousands of Dollars to you.  We sell the to you for the same price with payment options as our companion and hunting dogs plus $500 which covers our indepth training that we help provide to you every step of the way.  In each of our litters we always look for a pup or two in each litter that has the possibility of becoming something special to a very special person.  We will be with you along the way answering your questions getting you hooked up with groups that can help to train your new pup for work that is required for your disability.  

Roo...Seizure alert dog.

Some of Roo's commands are listed here.  This is just a tasting of what a service dog can do.

Up/in:  used to get up into car or other place.

lets go:  dressed and ready to go to work

left:  directive to go left

right: directive to go right

hold:  stand in place until I give next command

forward: walk forward

around (left & right):  used to go around something or to make a circle around my body to get back into position at left side heel

relax:  means she must relax take a moment and rest laying on the floor while I am finishing what I am doing, used in waiting rooms, check outs and other places where one waits for a time.

no shake:  Used when near food as she likes to shake to get the muscles moving again after laying for a period of time

Do you want to say hi:  greeting to meet people who have asked to pet her.

Focus:  used much in the beginning to get back on focus with what we are doing.

You may sit:  allows her to choose to sit or lay if I am talking to someone instead of standing in hold.

stay:  wtay where you are

behind:  used when I have a shopping cart to protect her from getting ran over by others.  She normally stands in the heel to the left of the cart and when told to behind will go behimd the cart.

no sniff:  used mostly with training.  many time used in conjunction with focus.  once sniffed you by products, much like you break you buy policy

leave:  use to leave something of interest.  many times food or toy.

find the ______  (car, john, etc.) used to protect myself in situations.  when needed she will find the car for me while out of it, will find John or places in the stores.

thank you,  thank her for her gift of alerting also used to release her from her duties

paycheck,  yes she gets a paycheck just like any other working american.  many times it is Culver's custard, raw meat, imitation crab