Dog Health Questions: Where to find a dog trainer that teaches service dog tasks?

My dog is Service dog trained except for the tasks. I was right in the middle of teaching her these with a woman who trained dogs in the tasks. She has since moved to Irac to be with her spouse. Does anybody know anybody in the Minneapolis-st paul area--554?? or 551?? zip code that can teach me these tasks? Example picking up keys off the floor and handing it to me. shs

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I will forward your question to someone I know that lives in that area, she also has a service dog and I hope she can refer you to someone that is better able to help you. Please keep your question open for a while.

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• You can ask if one of the trainers at Helping Paws (http://www.helpingpaws.org/) is willing to freelance or who they are currently recommending for assistance. At the time I worked with them they were fairly "anti-working with uncommon service dog breeds" but that was 8 years ago and you may have an "approved" breed or they may be less rigid.
  
  Nancy Driver http://www.oncuetraining.com/ is amazing. My favorite trainer of all times, Ruth Foster, is at the U of M and may be available or have some leads.
  
  Remember, that teaching a Service Dog is NO DIFFERENT from training any other trick (like sit) it just is a matter of slow, small, building steps to perform something more complicated.
  
  This may help assist you: http://dragonflyllama.com/MAIN/indexdog.… The Training Levels are a step by step guide to training a variety of things and teach you how to train a dog. Stitch's Blog is an amazing story of the journey of training a service dog.
  
  Good Luck!


• I must recommend this one: http://offleashdogtrainingco.com/
  sure you'll like it.