Tara DuVal talks about life as a Service Dog trainer.

You can find her services on https://www.pulsek9.com/

Her Facebook business page is https://www.facebook.com/PulseK9

And you can join either of her Facebook groups for tips here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pulsek9tipsandtricks for pets and https://www.facebook.com/groups/479039953069376 for service dog information.

For more information regarding how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) governs service dogs and the laws about them, visit https://www.ada.gov/service_animals_2010.htm

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Adam 00:00:11 Hi, this is Adam. This is Thora, this is Autism On Shift.Thora 00:00:15 Where we talk to other autistics about what we do for work, where you work homie?Adam 00:00:21 And we talk about other stuff too, but that’s the base outline. Join us.Thora 00:00:26 All right. Today we are talking to Tara DuVal and Tara is not just a dog trainer, not any kind of dog trainer. She is a trainer for service dogs. Is that correct? That isAdam 00:00:40 Sweet. Tell us about that. Cool!Tara 00:00:43 Cool. So, um, I’m, I’m making the shift right now. So I’ve worked with a couple of service dogs in the past few years, but it’s been mostly pets because that’s what everybody has. Right. But now I’m, I’m making an effort to work more and more with service dogs. Cause there are plenty of people who need them and want them that takes a lot of time. Um, and it’s hard to do both at once because of the time commitments that each thing would need. So pets, pets versus service dogs. So just kind of throwing out some of the pets, looking for more service dogs,Thora 00:01:19 Like some of us want to do. I mean, no, I love my dog.Adam 00:01:25 He works with the mailman every day afterwards. Get that training. That’s right. Yeah.Thora 00:01:34 Okay. So from my understanding, and I am completely not educated in this, but a service dog training is kind of like a 24/7 deal. Is that, is that right?Tara 00:01:44 So it can be, um, and whoever has the dog, yes. Is doing it 24/7. Um, but the same is kind of true of pet dogs. So there’s a lot of similarities. It’s just how much training the service dog needs in comparison to a pet dog. So like a pet dog, you’ve got whatever is comfortable for your lifestyle and whatever issues you have. We can fix that more often than not. And then you’re good to go service dogs. You need to have all the good behaviors you need to have all of the tasks specifically trained to mitigate your disability. They need to be able to do that in your house. They need to be able to do that outside of your home, around all these different distractions. So it’s, it takes a lot longer to get them there.Adam 00:02:33 I find if there’s problems, um, since we have a beagle, I just feed him and uh, although he’s fixed it. So it’s amazing.Tara 00:02:41 That’s actually most of the solutions yes. Using food to fix it.Adam 00:02:47 I wonder if that works on Thora. It absolutely does