so... my boss has asked me if i would be interested in training her male G-Doodle to be an AAT dog & i would be his handler at the clinic.
this would be an amazing opportunity to earn some much needed $ - she'll pay me to train him and then i'm sure i'd have a huge number of kids wanting to have the dog participate in therapy sessions with them.
the problem is i have no idea how to go about training a dog to do this. i know there is one group that offers continuing education for this but i don't know if that is just general info or specific training.
i don't know for sure that this dog is appropriate for this kind of job, either.
i have some research to do for sure but thought i'd start by asking here for any thoughts/suggestions you guys have.
i'd LOVE for this to happen but also don't want to get in over my head and have it turn into a full on disaster.
ETA: if her G-Doodle isn't appropriate i sure would love to do this with my sweet Gringo. if he wasn't so totally weird about hands approaching his head i'd totally consider it. think i can train him to not get so jumpy when people go to pet him? i don't think it's fear at all, i think he just anticipates the attention and gets too excited.