Product Description

Working Like Dogs: The Service Dog Guidebook is the resource book for service dogs that captures personal stories, checklists and practical tips to provide the reader with an A-Z guide about service dogs. It is a must read for anyone who is considering a service dog, has a service dog, is raising or is responsible for the care of a service dog, and dog lovers alike who want to connect with the power of the human-animal service dog partnership. This book is the ideal addition to every service dog training program as the resource for puppy raisers, service dog applicants and recipients.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65950 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-31
• Released on: 2007-03-10
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

About the Author
Marcie Davis is a writer, public speaker, advocate, and activist. She is the Chief Executive Officer of Davis Innovations, a public health and human service consulting firm based in Santa Fe, New Mexico that specializes in program development, policy, research, and advocacy. Marcie has been a paraplegic for over 30 years and has been partnered with a service dog for over thirteen years. She holds a Masters Degree in Library Science from the University of Southern Mississippi and has received numerous awards and accolades for her tireless advocacy on behalf of individuals who can not advocate for themselves. Melissa Bunnell holds a Masters Degree in Social Work from the Ohio State University and has specialized in family and crisis counseling. As an animal lover she became interested in the subject of service dogs through her colleague and friend Marcie Davis, a service dog recipient. For over five years she has researched service dog resources and interviewed service dog partners, veterinarians and other professionals in the dog world and in 2003 co-founded Working Like Dogs, LLC an organization dedicated to working dogs around the world. She lives with her husband and daughter in Texas and New Mexico.

Customer Reviews

Working with a Service Dog
This book is a useful "owner's manual" for handicapped people who have worked with one of the established training and placement agencies to acquire a trained service dog. It is full of information about the training received by the handicapped person at the training facility, on how to use and care for the the new dog, commands the dog may have been trained to obey, and even how to deal with the loss of the companion and helper of possibly many years.
This book will not be of as much use to those handicapped persons who are training their own service dogs.

disappointed
I was truly disappointed with this book
The authors address and dismiss owner-trained dogs in one sentence.
With over half the assistance dogs in America owner trained, I think it deserves at the very least a chapter.
It would behoove them to include the TEAMWORK books by Stewart Nordensson and Lydia Kelly as a reference.
There are so many people who can use a service dog and so few programs available that any book on the subject ought to include the possibility of independently training such a dog.
However this book would be a good gift for anyone with an aging service dog. It handles the loss of a dog with compassion.

Light on training technical information
I think this book was interesting but it was not really what I was looking for. I was looking for more indepth training info.