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Laura is a certified guide dog mobility instructor (GDMI), certified service dog trainer (Atlas CT), certified dog trainer (CPDT-KA) and certified trick dog trainer (CTDI). She's also an AKC CGC Evaluator. Laura has been training and placing service dogs for 15 years and can show you how to raise and train your dog the service dog way!


DOGGY•U

13 years married today, nearly 20 together!
Happy Anniversary to Mr. DOGGY•U!
Without Eric, none of this is possible (and not just because someone has to have a big boy job with health insurance 😂)

For all the adventures, past, present and future, I love you. 💜

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Photo by @francesmphoto

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So grateful 💜

Also, does anyone have a lint roller? 😅

Headed across the country for a week with the fam.

#labrador #servicedog #labradorretriever #servicedogtrainer

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John Denver 💜

Photo by @francesmphoto

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Doing big dog things 💜 🦮

Stay tuned ☺️

1 month ago | [YT] | 618

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Is this a little too extra? 😂

Also, 2 DAY SALE on all DOGGY•U merch (including our “in training: please give us space” and “I’m going to need a higher rate of reinforcement for this sh*t” shirts 😉)!

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Denver earned his Champion Shed Dog (CHSD) title this weekend!

We’ve been driving 20-30 hours round trip to the Midwest to compete all spring and it’s been such a blast.

In dog sports, good people really make all the difference, and the people who put on these shed hunting events and have taken me in as their weird little van-dwelling East Coaster who just keeps coming back, have been such a gift. If it hadn’t been for how welcoming the shed hunting community has been, there’s no way we would have earned his CHSD. But it’s been worth the drive every time and Denver loves to do his thing. Thank you to every one of you who went out of their way to make me feel welcome - it means a lot. See you in the fall! 💜

#shedhunt #fieldlab #labrador #yellowlab

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Today Denver earned his first Beginner Novice Obedience leg under judge Ira Kaplan with a 198 out of 200, earning 1st place in BN A.

I’m totally new to competition obedience and was SO nervous to go in the ring. But after watching some of the wonderful competitors in Open, I really get the reason people love the precision of this sport! Nothing like I’ve ever trained for!

I’ll be back for more! I’m so lucky to have such a wonderful partner 💜


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John Denver and I got to compete in another UKC Elite Shed Dog Series trial this weekend with 3 more Champion passes for the yellow boy. He now has 7/10 passes towards his CHSD.

Big thank you to Coal Country Shed Dogs for a wonderful event!

I really love playing the game with Denver, but I love the people the most. Everyone has been so incredibly welcoming to us and it makes it such a joy to compete and hang out with these wonderful folks, and totally worth the repeated 10 hour drives 😁.

Thanks for making this New Englander feel welcome and see you back in West Virginia in two weeks! ❤


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2 months ago | [YT] | 353

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Today Denver earned his Rally Novice title!
I’m super proud of this boy, as the trial was at a huge, loud, indoor venue with 13 rings going simultaneously. Neither him nor I had ever been to an event like that, and I was pretty over threshold. He managed the chaos really well for an adolescent boy who is currently really feeling those hormones.

He ended up with a 94 (with a 99 and 97 on his other two legs) and while there were definitely things to work on, there were lots of moments of brilliance for my big yellow man!

I still don’t think I’m a dog show person, but I keep trying anyways 😂

WSD Kickass Sunshine On My Shoulders *RN* CGCA CGCU TKP FTA

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Denver turned 18 months!
Swipe to see him grow! 👉🏽
Good thing I’ve been working out 😂 💪🏼

WSD Kickass Sunshine On My Shoulders CGCA CGCU TKP FTA

John “Denver”, Johnny D., Big Yellow, Optimist Prime

#labradorpuppy #servicedog #servicedogtrainer #fieldlab #dogglowup

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