BC and Alberta Guide Dog Services

Advanced Professional Canine Training Program

At approximately fifteen months of age, the dogs enter the Advanced Training Program, working with a Guide Dog Mobility Instructor. This advanced training is completed in approximately eighteen weeks, depending on each dog’s individual needs.

Once the dogs in advanced training have completed approximately 75% of their training cycle, the Training Department begins the matching process of working dog with client. For each instructor this is possibly the most complex process of all. All aspects of the dog’s abilities and needs must, at this time, be well understood. At the same time, we need to ensure that we fully understand the abilities, needs and expectations of the client.

Guide dog-in-training, Trep Stevie, a black guide-dog-in-training.

Logan, a yellow guide-dog-in-training Kobe, yellow guide-dog-in-training

BC & Alberta Guide Dogs Services

Advanced Professional Canine Training Program