This is the puppy training podcast episode number 79, service dog training.

This podcast is designed to help you on your journey of becoming best friends through love and learning as you train your own dog from home.

And I'm here to help you every step of the way.

This is the puppy training podcast, and I'm your host,

Amy Jensen. Welcome, everybody. I'm so glad that you could join us today on the puppy training

podcast. We have Laura Sarvinsky here with us today. She is one of our trainers here at Baxter

and Bella. And I first met Laura when I was working with good dog service canines. She was a fellow service

dog trainer and she's amazing at it. So when I thought of this topic for the podcast, her name

was the first one that came to mind. And I thought, why not have her on and explain a little bit

about what she does and how she does it? And I have several questions I want to ask her.

So, Laura, welcome. Thanks for joining me today. Thank you for having me here. I'm excited.

So can we start off, Laura, maybe just by introducing yourself to our listeners and telling them

a little bit about you. Why dogs? How did you first get into dog training? Well, I, um, I first got into dog training when my

grandma, uh, was a agility instructor. So she's a local dog trainer in our community. And she

was teaching agility classes and, and puppy obedience classes. And she wanted me to get involved in

help. So I started, um, being a helper in puppy classes, uh, and she wanted me to get involved in help. So I started being a helper

in puppy classes and started doing agility with my Shetland Sheep Dog Blaze when I was a kid,

and I got hooked on dog training. And I didn't really think it could be a career at that time.

I thought, gosh, I'm going to have to be like a veterinarian, or I'm going to have to do something

else where I can make money.

And I went to class one night and my grandma brought this brochure for Bergen University of Canine Studies and said, there's a school that offers checked it out and went on a tour and I ended up going to school there

and getting my degree in Synology, the study of dogs, and then got into dog training.

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