Chase Learns Sorting

Greetings to everyone from team Vicky and Chase!  I wanted to get this video posted because for the next few months we will be busy with the adaptive…

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Chase Masters Wheelchair Foot Manipulation

After taking a little break from foot training, to focus on Chase’s ability to ignore food on the floor that doesn’t belong to him, we finally…

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Chase Learns to Move Legs Off Footplates

When Helping Paws blessed me with Chase, the first couple of weeks, we did all the things taught to us in class. As time went on, I began to look at…

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Chase Begins to Learn Foot Manipulation for Me

Since moving my legs very far on their own is a problem for me, I’ve had to lift or slide them with my upper arms, damaged from overuse. My goal for…

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Chase Learns to Open Blinds

It never ceases to amaze me how much Chase loves to learn new things and how he masters them so quickly.  Something that most people take for…

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Chase Learns Footplates

I love teaching my service dog, Chase, new things regularly.  He’s so eager to learn and loves to work for me.  If I don’t work with him enough, he…

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Practice and Demonstration of Skills

Chase demonstrates “Retrieve”, “Bring”, “Step Up” and “Give”.  I'm amazed at Chase's ability to step up onto my footplates when I am in the elevated…

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Chase Opening Front Door

This is my first service dog Chase learning the new task of opening our heavy front door for me. He nailed it! We're using a tug for doors with lever…

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Service Dog Graduation and Homecoming

Team Chase and Vicky Service Dog Training and Graduation On October 6, 2017, after completing a 3-week intensive course with my partner…

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