Veterans Wanted

Veterans

Wanted!

Monroe’s K9 Academy in Charlestown NH is actively turn a light switch on and off, pull her looking to work with Veterans. If you are a veteran and would jacket off as well as pulling socks on and like to have some help with training your dog Deb is offering disoff, and open a cupboard with a leash counted rates for you. She is also qualified to train Service Dogs. as well as retrieving a TV remote or the

When it comes to training our dogs there are many options. phone. One of her dogs was also trained Deb work to teach your dog to be obedient, polite, and accept to respond to smoke and carbon monoxing. Utilizing a Trainer/Owner at Home Training Method helps ide detectors. This came in very handy dog learn quickly. Beginning in an unfamiliar environment when her dog woke her in the middle of and ending the lesson in the familiar surroundings of the dog’s the night to warn of an alert in the basehome. Owners learn how to reinforce the skills learned after ment. Even her Aussie has gotten in on the class at home. action, herding the family therapy goat!

Dogs can provide many services to people in need. Everything from physical handicaps to PDSD and beyond our fluffy little friends can be there 24/7. This relationship is priceless for both the owner and the dogs. Deb has had many service dogs she has helped. She loves telling the stories of the successes.

Deb has been an animal trainer since 2007. Working with animals is her passion, but more than anything, she wants to help individuals in need of a guide, hearing or service dog. “I believe that many people with handicaps can lead a much fuller life if they have a trained service dog.”

A service dog is a dog individually trained, to directly benefit a specific individual with a disability, such as visual or hearing impairment. Additionally, some are trained to do other work, such as mobility assistance, seizure alert or other medical alerts, and as psychiatric service dogs. This is from one of her clients: Fully training a service dog can be very My name is Katherine Kopij and I have expensive. In some cases, organizations had the privilege of working with Debra do not charge for a service dog, while in Monroe the last few months with trainanother they may charge thousands of doling our two standard poodle pups to be lars. In any event there is a waiting period. allergy alert dogs for my two children. She works directly with individuals, We started when the pups came to us helping them to train their own dog. In around age 6 months, and since then we this way a stronger bond is created, and have gotten to a point where they both that person’s service needs are met, resultbehave nicely in public and are starting in a happier animal and a fuller life ing to learn to detect certain allergens. for the owner. Both dogs have their own personality Debra has trained a Doberman to be a and Debra has been able to work around mobility service dog, and trained a reswhat learning style works best for each cue dog to be a service dog. She had a pup. One of the unique challenges that long-haired German that was trained we have come up against is that one of to get her shoes in the morning, the pups is blind, I was hesitant in the beginning, but Debra help show us that a disability shouldn’t hold one back, so shadow our blind pup is now showing us what she is made of and acing everything she is taught. Debra is also able to work around our schedule, and is extremely reasonable with her pricing, you can tell she is in it to help not just make money off of people. Life with two children with additional needs can be very expensive and being able to get an assistance dog for them seemed to be way out of our reach, but with the help of Debra, a dream of having assistance dogs to help give my two children and myself a safety net for them is now coming true. Fall 2020