Common Language
Dog Training
Service Animal Training
for current service dogs and service dogs in-training
Common Language Dog Training offers personalized, experienced guidance for training your service animal to assist you. Zakary has trained and coached dozens of successful teams in the United States and abroad, and can help you achieve your own dreams too.
A well-trained service animal can help disabled people achieve independence and success. Working a service animal can also present unexpected challenges; and you can count on us to help.
Service Animal Foundations
Group Course & Private Lessons
12 weeks
Learn public access skills, the legal aspects of having a service dog, and teach your dog specific tasks to help manage your disability.
Public Access Drop-In
Service Animal Public Access Practice
Drop-in
Open to dogs passing their Service Animal Foundation Course, CGC carriers, and currently working ADA compliant service animals.
Service Dog Selection Assistance
In addition to training, we offer our expert opinion in service dog selection. Selection of the proper dog is critical for your success. You need a dog with a heart to serve and with the proper balance of biddability, nerve and the emotional balance to complete your required tasks.
You are forming a lifelong bond with your service dog and best friend. We are happy to go with you and temperament test dogs located at shelters or other locations. Genetics play a crucial role in service dog selection and sometimes a preservation breeder of health-tested, purpose-bred dogs is the right fit. A puppy that has received proper care and stimulation in the first few critical weeks of life is the most likely to make a good candidate for service work.
Not all dogs can be service dogs, and selection is the first crucial life changing step. If you already have a young, biddable pet dog that you have bonded with, that would be a natural choice for you - provided that your pet dog has a great temperament and is agreeable to other people and pets. They do not need to be over friendly, just not reactive or overly shy.
Please email us to learn more about this service.
You must have a physical or psychiatric disability in order to work a service dog, and the dog must perform tasks that mitigate your disability in order to legally qualify as a service team under United States law.
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For information regarding this requirement, please refer to the ADA Website.
