Dog Health Questions: I want to become a service dog trainer.?

Do you have to go to some sort of school for service dog training?
what schools for that are good? ( preferably in Alaska)
What age do you attend a school like that? I still want to go to Biola when i go to college.
I just want to train and breed service dogs myself....
How do I certify myself or the dog???

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You either apprentice with a service dog training organization or go to a school like Bergin University. http://berginu.org/

Since it typically takes 18-24 months to fully train a service dog, expect your apprenticeship to take about three years.

For breeding, you really should have a college degree in animal husbandry to learn all that is necessary for such a breeding program. We aren't talking about breeding pets, where you put a male and a female together and hope for the best. A service dog breeding program involves indepth study of each potential breeding candidate's family history and genetics. You have to know how different genetic diseases are transmitted, how to identify affected individuals as well as carriers, how to remove or magnify specific traits from your gene pool, and much more if you're to do a good job of it.

Just putting two nice dogs together and hoping is going to tend to produce only one usable dog in 100. That means 99 others to find homes for. A good service dog breeding program succeeds in 7 out of 8 live births, and those culled from service work can usually be placed in another career. Those that can't are still given training to make them desirable pets. That's a big investment to make with a large number of dogs you can't use for your program.

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• Contact an organization like Guide Dogs of America (think that's the name) and see what the qualifications are