Gracie’s Updates

Training Status Update: 12/4/21

Gracie is waiting patiently for placement as a life saver…. go Gracie go

Training Status Update: 10/10/21

Happy Birthday Gracie

Training Status Update: 9/20/21

Gracie is entering into pair testing. This is where we test the dogs on their ability to pick up their bringsel with the scent without any prompting from the trainer

Training Status Update: 9/9/21

Gracie is working on matching the scent with bringsel pick up…. check out her 1st video

Training Status Update: 9/1/21

Gracie passed her bringsel test and is now practicing pairing the bringsel with scent…. YAHOO

Training Status Update: 8/16/21

Gracie is inching closer to taking her bringsel test. She just started working in her service jacket and headcollar and is inconsistently holding up to 10sec.

Gracie is also begun work on extra skills training beginning with fetching and retrieving low supplies for a T1D in need

Training Status Update: 7/26/21

Gracie is responding to grab cue and building duration hold on Bringsel….. check out this video

Training Status Update: 6/23/21

Check out this video, learning new things here at NICST is always fun. I love the trainers!

Training Status Update: 6/23/21

Woo-hoo! Gracie has transitioned from working with a dumbbell to working on the bringsel. Once she is holding the bringsel from hand, we will work on having her pick up the bringsel from her collar

Training Status Update: 6/8/21

Scent Training –  She is happily finding the target odor and will be introduced to her first decoy this week.

Dumbbell Training – She has begun to understand that we want her to hold the dumbbell, now we’re just building duration.

Training Status Update: 4/11/21

Welcome Gracie