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Dogs in Public: Lessons Learned by Doing

If you want your dog to behave in public, you have to teach him in public. Teaching your dog at home or at obedience class is a good start, but if you expect that teaching to carry over to "real life," you're going to have to work in that situation. 

Because public work is a necessity for service dogs, we start our public training very 

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