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🦮 Assistance/Service Dog 🩺
🇺🇸 AKC Golden Retriever living it up in the UK 🇬🇧
👩🏻 @lemurlibs91 (Handler) & @irvsax 🧔🏻
🐾 @expandingintelligence pup 🚺

🥰 Looking down at this girl’s face and doing

🥰 Looking down at this girl’s face and doing training “walks” makes my soul happy - enjoy some pictures from ours today! 😊

🐕 When we left the house I knew in my mind that my main focus was going to be holding distance stays (mostly without recall), in sit and in down positions as we have lacked practice of this during pandemic. I went with the flow aiming to cover a mix of things for the rest of the walk.

🦮 On our half hour walk we did the following structure (not to say this is how you SHOULD do it, or that this is what we do every time but on this particular walk this particular day this is what we did) :

• Couple minutes of sniffing/toileting etc

• Some structured leash walking with marking correct position, praising automatic checkins, using non-verbal cues for stopping and starting movement

• Couple minutes of off-leash heeling, in/around grassy area (challenge but she smashed it)

• Alternating bursts of free roaming, sniffing etc with time spent on training focus points (see below)

• Training focus points:
- Down stay close by with distraction nearby (kids on bikes)
- Sit stay close by with distraction medium distance (dogs)
- Down stay with walk away & approach
- Sit stay with walk away & out of sight & return
- Sit & wait with recall to sit
- Down & wait then stand at distance without automatic recalling (we need to work on this again)

• Off leash free roaming/sniffing/running with bursts of heeling past high intensity distractions (off leash dog - old, friendly)

🐾 On returning, we did cooperative care of letting me wipe her paws then fresh water to drink

😴 Since then it’s been decompression & settle time with her antler and then sleeping, while I rest & recover.

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Helping with the decorating prep - gold star for r

Helping with the decorating prep - gold star for rag-carrying ⭐️

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This golden girl had a great time at the wedding o

This golden girl had a great time at the wedding of @carolinex91 and @barry_fresh90 the new Mr & Mrs Walker! 👰‍♀️ 🤵‍♂️ It was a lovely day all round and congratulations to the happy couple! 🥂

Thanks for inviting us 🥰

So grateful to this awesome dog for helping me make it through the whole day without faceplanting!!!!! With a couple of alerts, some solid, persistent responses and general monitoring and grounding 🙌

Also thanks to Burford Bridge Hotel @mercure_boxhill_burford_bridge and all the wedding guests for being so welcoming of her. 🙏

We’re now both exhausted and she is sleeping pretty much constantly bless her so we’ve got a quiet couple of days of recovery! 😴

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🥳 SPARROW IS 4️⃣ TODAY!!! 🥳 Also shoutou

🥳 SPARROW IS 4️⃣ TODAY!!! 🥳
Also shoutout to the other side of the coin, her sibling @servicedogfresno !!! Love you both so much, you awesome dogs😍

Note: I promise she is having a good time, she just got all serious and posey on me 🙈🙄

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*NON-VERBAL PRACTICE* Here are a couple of snippet

*NON-VERBAL PRACTICE*
Here are a couple of snippets from my previous training session where I was focusing on communicating without words. Instead I use a mix of established hand signals for specific commands, combined with finger snaps, indications by pointing and patting my thigh. I am also communicating with my body language and facial expressions.

The aim of this is to have a solid way of communicating in situations where verbal communication isn’t appropriate or possible. I frequently use a mix but sometimes it needs to be exclusively non-verbal.

The focus here is on things that would come up in a situation when we’re out and about in that kind of environment: positional navigating, me dropping the leash, her getting her leash, untangling from her leash, sit/down stays, grounding and a full on response to hyperventilation with immediate response to the non-verbal “off” cue (so it is at no point out of control).

It isn’t perfect but there is a general mutual understanding and that’s what matters, while we work on fine tuning some of the positions.

All on slip lead without use of corrections, just gentle leash pressure occasionally. The focus is on the communication between us, with the leash being a physical connection as it would be there in most of these situations.

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🥱 Is it the weekend yet? 🥱 (This was actual

🥱 Is it the weekend yet? 🥱

(This was actually accidental…I threw the blanket off myself when I got up to get a drink, without realising it fell over Sparrow’s head…then when I returned to the room, Sparrow had decided she obviously couldn’t move because something was on her head 🙄😑🙈😂)

[📸 ID: A Golden Retriever lies spread out on a light grey recliner sofa, with a black throw draped over her, covering her eyes. Her black tipped nose is visible, as are her front paws and tip of her tail. In the background the corner of a red cushion and cream heating pad are visible.]

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🧦 SOCK AND SHOE RETRIEVAL 👟 (sound on for c

🧦 SOCK AND SHOE RETRIEVAL 👟
(sound on for commands & praise)

Making use of Sparrow being in total high drive mode while my back is still bad and getting things from the floor is even more problematic than usual!

We have done “sock” before a couple of times (the use of the word is not a routine one though). We have never done “shoe” before but I could tell that in this moment if I gestured towards it she would puzzle it out and then would have a great positive experience of retrieving new items.

(NOTE: she is panting like this because we just got back from a high intensity walk. After this video I then encouraged her to have water and settle for a while to decompress and relax.)

🎥 Video Description: Sparrow, a dark golden retriever, is filmed retrieving socks, one by one, followed by a pair of shoes one by one. She gets praised every time she brings it to her handler’s hand, and then gets a medium value treat and big praise at the end! Commands used are “get my sock” and “get my shoe”, marker is “yes” (for picking up) and praise is “good girl” (for full retrieval to hand).

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The familiar face of concern and disapproval! Comb

The familiar face of concern and disapproval! Combined with quite a significant huff from her 😐😤 Good start to my Saturday!

[📸 ID: Golden Retriever Sparrow sits facing the camera, one paw up on her human’s knee while she performs a response task, interrupting her human’s leg trembling. She looks serious as she stares into the camera]

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😛 Tongue Out Tuesday 👅 Miss these two bein

😛 Tongue Out Tuesday 👅

Miss these two being together!!! 🥺😩 they are the ultimate team.

@servicedogfresno some more Snow and Little Bird Adventures soon 🙏

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Haven’t posted in a while. Life has been up and

Haven’t posted in a while. Life has been up and down but we’re getting there.
Po has been showing lots of mental improvement. He’s learning a lot of self control around other dogs and people lately.
In the photos and videos there are two other dogs on the field both running and playing. One is roughly 150m away, the other 200m. He was making the conscious decision to stay with me as I requested in the heel sit position 😁
Managed to walk the majority of the way back in the heel position off lead too!
He’s been working too and his mental transition to “work mode” is very evident as of late 😁.
Very proud of Po lately ❤️.
The Lord Eli has been his usually self, always looking for food, always wanting to play, always wanting a cuddle, but he is working less and less as Po steps up to the challenge 😁.
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Beach day with @luisapaige97 and the boys ❤️

Beach day with @luisapaige97 and the boys ❤️

You’ve got a little something on your face there

You’ve got a little something on your face there boyo 🤣🤣.
Every time with this one 😅.
Usually end up with bits on the floor around his bowl too 😂.
It’s okay though. Eli the hoover cleans up after him 👀.
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I completely forgot I ordered this! Checking out s

I completely forgot I ordered this!
Checking out some books online the other day and managed to spot this beaut. A first edition 🥰🥰🥰.
This book is the first one I read by Kristin Cashore.
It was my inspiration for a photo project during college, and Po gets his name from the first book in the series (Graceling, Fire, Bitterblue). Even my gecko is named after the first book 😂.
This book will never be read the spine is PERFECT on it and it shall stay that way 👌.
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Haven’t posted in forever 😂.
Po says heyyyy 😂

Three amigos ❤️. #roughcollie #roughcolliesofi

Three amigos ❤️.
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Love this little fur ball so much ❤️❤️. Ch

Love this little fur ball so much ❤️❤️.
Chilling in the garden as the other two went loopy 😂😂.
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Haven’t posted in a while 😅. Been busy 🙈.

Haven’t posted in a while 😅.
Been busy 🙈.
Staying at mums during the lockdown with these three fur balls ❤️.

I don’t feel like we’ve had enough Eli lately?

I don’t feel like we’ve had enough Eli lately?
I mean I get loads of Eli. I have this cutie snuggled up next to me in bed every night and every morning.
Tomorrow he’ll be out working. We’re heading out for my friends birthday meal and movie. It’ll be 5 of us in total plus Eli, a long day to come no doubt 🙈.
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