About Us
Service Dog Training Ontario is a select group of Canadian trainers who have been educated in Concept training and Canine Behavior Modification. They are certified, or working towards certification in disciplines specific to service dog training. All our trainers must have current credentials in support careers including first responders, life coaching/counselling, and psychology.
We do not measure our success by selling the most courses to people. We measure our success by making the journey easier for our clients and ensuring their dogs will have the skills needed to ‘never let their handlers down’, and ‘never just stop working’.
We follow LIMA Standards
“LIMA” – “least intrusive, minimally aversive.” LIMA describes a trainer or behavior consultant who uses minimally aversive, humane, effective tactics likely to succeed in achieving a training or behavior change objective. LIMA adherence requires trainers to be adequately educated and experienced in order to ensure that these standards are adhered to, even when a dog is displaying difficult behavior.
[Steven Lindsay, Handbook of Applied Dog Behavior and Training Vol 3 pgs. 29 & 726
Education - 2015
Our trainers have trained under some of the top names in the dog training and behavior consulting industry.
2017 - Service Dogs
Our organization has placed 1 – 3 fully trained service dogs each year since 2017
Live Classes - 2018
Since we started offering live classes more than 100 people have gone through and graduated our service dog workshops and classes.
2019 - Online
The formal classes were developed with the assistance of dog trainers, behavior consultants, service dog handlers, and professionals in the psychology and counseling fields.
The future looks great!
Our online courses follow the same program used to raise and train the fully trained service dogs we place.
We are working hard to make an easy to understand course that takes the frustration and confusion out of service dog training.