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[–] 12 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

No. I raise and do basic training for guide dog puppies. The hard part is done from when they are 12-14 months, by professional trainers. You can't train a service dog when they are a puppy, unless they are simple "emotional support dogs", which I think is mostly bullshit, most privately owned dogs are emotional support dogs to a certain extent.

Real service dogs, like guide dogs, or mobility or the like, are trained professionally. Puppy educators, like me, basically raise very well behaved dogs, as a base from which the pros build.

Police and war dogs are a whole different thing.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    The hard part is done from when they are 12-14 months, by professional trainers.

    Yea like my buddy and his wife who literally trains dogs for blind people. Their last dog just passed its graduation exam 2 weeks ago.

    Police and war dogs are a whole different thing.

    That's what I was saying.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Can you elaborate on the police and war dogs? I didn’t even know war dogs were still a thing.

    At what age does a puppy become training-worthy? And the way you mentioned the police and war dogs makes it sound like they are all Banes. Genuinely just curious, there was a dog school around the corner where I grew up but we never had a reason to go there so I don’t really know.

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