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Our purpose at Dog Wish is to find, evaluate, train, and produce a dog that will “fill thegap”, and “make the difference” for each person who puts their hopes, trust, and faith in us, to fulfill their wishes.  There is only one “best” choice, and many of our clients will tell you that their Dog Wish Service Dog is the #1 best dog in the world, for them.  We do a detailed study, of each client, before we even start training their dog.

I have a philosophy: it’s your dog, your dog training, you are going to live with the results.  What’s important here, is YOU.  We keep you informed of how your dog is doing, while we do YOUR training.  That way, we can keep you and your needs ever constant and primary in our consciousness.  We know that understanding, and reacting to the important details we learn about each client may make their life better.

 We consider what we do a “life and death” concern, and my trainers have had to learn how to deal with “critical” issues every day.   We start by finding a dog with a temperament that matches its’ future handler.  Most service dog trainers choose dogs for training that will be submissive and obedient to their handlers.  At Dog Wish our dogs are styled after Police K9s, and they are driven by their instincts to passively “protect” their handlers.  They perform as is best for their handler’s welfare, intelligently, sensitively, and assertively.  Their primary job is to stay 100% focused on their handler’s needs.  They are trained to detect, alert, and respond as their handler’s needs, for their support, assistance, and protection.  This requires a dog with a sharp, focused temperament, capable for performing when faced by the strongest distraction, whose focus and intention is strong and unbending.  If you have a client with seizures, strong tendencies to elope, or whose actions are a danger to themselves, or others, you need a real dog, whose vigilance is trustworthy and strong.  Unfortunately, your 4H styled, therapy like, submissive or trick trained dog produced to imitate the real thing, just won’t begin to “fit” the bill.  That’s why at Dog Wish we use dogs with stronger temperaments, higher intelligence, superior instincts, and real power.  These dogs make great companions, and also get the job done.

Everything we do is done to strengthen, enhance, and empower your dogs’ performance, and their ability to work for and serve you better.

  1. First, we teach our dogs to go into “command mode” on command, where we have trained them to lose their hyper-tension, becoming quiet, sensitive, become slower, more intense, and more focused.  We use this behavior to do many things.  Because the dogs are less nervous, hectic, and hypertensive, they are more approachable, and easier to pet and handle.  While in command mode your dog can actually balance the behaviors of their handler, cut down on melt downs, emotional extremes, panic attacks, PTSD issues, dementia caused behaviors, and seizure activity.  Because they are slower, more relaxed and sensitive, more focused, and attentive, they are more enjoyable to be around.  Because we have modified their energy output they are more soothing and comfortable for you.
  2. We then teach our dogs how to concentrate on one thing for several minutes, instead of switching their attention every 5 seconds to distractions, like all other dogs.  Because of this ability our dogs stay focused, when others can’t.  They are more attentive, and stay alert to you.
  3. We teach our dogs to ignore everything else, and concentrate all their senses only on their handlers.   This training is intense, and powerful.  It actually inverts the dog’s psychological process, so that instead of being focused on them self, and their own concerns, they learn to focus on their handler, and that person’s welfare.  *Part of this training is teaching our dogs not to be sensitive to touch, so that you can take them out into public and while others come close, and even pet them, they remain 95% focused on their handler.  This training procedure has made many breeds of dogs more capable of being good Dog Wish Service Dogs.
  4. We teach our dogs to learn to work with their handler as a team, and family.  They learn to watch the handler for signs of what that person wants them to do.  They learn to be sensitive to the desires of that handler, and to respond instantly as the handler communicates his or her needs.
  5. We teach our dogs to be sensitive to the energies in, and around their handler, to feel the handler, and to communicate deeply and sensitively with the handler from the very first day of training on.  It is one of the most important things we teach our dogs to do.
  6. We teach our dogs to track scent trails, not for fun, but the same way the top Police K9s in the world are taught.  They then learn to focus on the scent of their handler, and learn to find that scent, every day of their training.  We use the handler’s scent to teach the dog to focus and concentrate on that particular scent.  By learning this special type of scent detection, the dogs also learn all about their handler, from their own scent.  It is a known fact that 75% of what dogs learn, they ingest through their nose.
  7. We teach our dogs a unique, more comprehensive and intense strategy for communication.  Our dogs are taught to focus through that method, using it to learn higher forms of communication on a comprehensive level.  There are different fields of energy in, and around us, of lower and higher levels.  We are vibratory beings of energy, and are greatly affected by energies.  When a dog and their handler work at the same vibratory level, and use positive energies to communicate “in-sync” with each other, what happens can be miraculous!  This is essential training we teach ALL Dog Wish Service Dogs.
  8. Our dogs are taught from the beginning to make their own decisions.  In our training, we don’t use force or stress to make the dogs obey.  If the dogs make a mistake, they are given the chance to “fix” their own mistakes, to make new decisions, and to perform based on their own desires to be a pack.  We support and encourage them as pack and team members.
  9. We teach our dogs to create, develop, and decide to act, based on their own intentions, using their own thought process.  We teach each dog based on “intention” philosophies.  Our dogs learn that their intentions are the most important part of their training, and that our training is based on developing the proper intention, not on actions.  By using intentions as the basis for behavior, and not actions, our training is proactive, not reactive.  This allows us to take control of the dogs’ thought and learning process, and makes our training faster, more effective, less stressful, and overall more humane.
  10. Our dogs are trained to see performance as THEIR key to everything they want in life.  Therefore, their performance is NOT just voluntary, it is heartfelt, committed, and way beyond the norm.

 #1 is something we are determined to recreate in every dog we place, for every client we contract with.  The most important client, and the best dog we will ever put out, is yours.  No matter what else we have done, or will do, what counts is YOU.  When you contract with Dog Wish YOU become our #1 priority.  Doing the job for you to our very best, and providing YOU the very best service, in every way, is our only concern.

This is a rare attitude.  It’s the ONLY attitude that will produce the dog you need.  That’s what separates a winner from the pack, and may save your life.  It’s the only thing we will accept at Dog Wish, and the ONLY thing you should accept period.

Sincerely,

Bob Taylor, President. http://www.dogwish.org, bob@dogwish.org, 760-662-3767