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What are Psychiatric Service Dogs Tasks?
Explore the tasks of psychiatric service dogs in managing anxiety, self-harm, and panic attacks.
Jennifer Cattet
Feb 14, 20244 min read
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Train Your Own Service Dog with Medical Mutts
Transform your canine companion into a certified service dog with Medical Mutts' online group classes. Cost-effective and positive methods
Jennifer Cattet
Nov 18, 20233 min read
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Get your dog trained as your Service Dog
Are you or a loved one in need of a service dog but already have a cherished canine companion? Are you seeking a specific breed or a...
Jennifer Cattet
Oct 12, 20233 min read
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How to Train a Seizure Alert Dog
The risk of sudden and unpredictable seizures can severely impact how much we can do and how safe we feel going about our day. The Mayo...
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Oct 6, 20236 min read
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How to select a dog to train as your service dog?
Since we help owners train their own dogs as service dogs, the question of how to pick the right dog comes up daily at our training...
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Oct 6, 20238 min read
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The Healing Power of Psychiatric Service Dogs
As the prevalence of mental health conditions continues to rise, so does the demand for mental health treatments. One of the latest forms...
Jennifer Cattet
Mar 18, 20232 min read
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How to choose a service dog trainer?
In my early days as a service dog trainer, the only way to get a service dog was to apply to an organization and wait for your turn to...
Jennifer Cattet
Jan 24, 20228 min read
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How to select a dog to train as your service dog?
Since we help owners train their own dogs as service dogs, the question of how to pick the right dog comes up daily at our training...
Jennifer Cattet
Jun 15, 20218 min read
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New Book: “Selecting and Training your service dog: How to succeed in public access work
We read stories all the time in the media about how service dogs change lives. Over the years, I’ve experienced first-hand how a dog can...
Jennifer Cattet
Apr 30, 20218 min read
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Why get a diabetic alert dog?
I still remember the very first diabetic alert dog I placed. It was for a young 30 some years old man, Dustin, who suffered from loss of...
Jennifer Cattet
Apr 3, 20215 min read
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Can your ESA become your Service Dog and fly with you?
For the past decade, owners, suffering from a disability, were able to bring their emotional support animal (ESA) on the plane with them,...
Jennifer Cattet
Mar 2, 20215 min read
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How to Get a Service Dog
Living with a disability is difficult, stressful, and sometimes scary if your condition triggers sudden changes in your physiology. Dogs...
Jennifer Cattet
Feb 11, 20216 min read
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Emotional Support Dog, Therapy Dog, Facility Dog, or Psychiatric Service Dog. What’s the difference?
It’s almost impossible to find any other creature as loving and comforting as a dog. Their ability to empathize and their natural desire...
Jennifer Cattet
Feb 3, 20217 min read
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Caleb and the “collaborator” Darcy
Grief and trauma can impact all area of a young person’s life. School is harder, relationships more frightening, the normal “losses” of...
Jennifer Cattet
Dec 5, 20205 min read
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Medical Mutts Helps Owner Train Her Own Seizure Alert Dog and Get Her Life Back
Dublin is a very special basset hound. This unusual service dog never misses a seizure and alerts Olivia so that she can prepare and get...
Jennifer Cattet
Oct 6, 20203 min read
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A fireman and his psychiatric service dog on a mission
Nathan is a firefighter, and his psychiatric service dog, Penelope is on a mission to tackle PTSD.
Jennifer Cattet
Sep 6, 20204 min read
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Robin, the school dog – Tammy Beechler
Robin’s training began a year ago with the professional guidance of Jennifer Cattet and her supportive staff at Medical Mutts. Jennifer...
Jennifer Cattet
Aug 6, 20203 min read
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Makenna & Dozer, the Diabetes Alert Dog – Makenna Barker
I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in April of 1999, I was 3 years old. When I got into school and was old enough to care for my own...
Jennifer Cattet
Jul 6, 20203 min read
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Juniper is a rescue dog because she rescued me – Amy Mansfield
I explain time and time again to strangers about how Juniper is a rescue dog. “Rescue dog,” however, has two different meanings in my...
Jennifer Cattet
Jun 6, 20202 min read
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Life is better with Asti, my Diabetes Alert Dog – Alice Martina Smith
I have been a type 1 diabetic for more than 40 years. I have also been privileged to share my life with dogs for most of that time. I am...
Jennifer Cattet
May 6, 20203 min read
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