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One critically important thing to expose your young dog to is flooring with contrasting colors. Dogs often see black to white flooring transitions as holes in the ground, so early exposure can help them understand that there's nothing to worry about!

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[DoggyU]

I once had a guide dog try to jump a 4 ft black tile strip in the mall because it was obviously a bottomless black hole 🕳 😂
Early exposure to “weird” human things is key! What other "weird" human things do you expose your service dog to?

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[ChelseyReikiHealerDogTrainer]

This makes sense. My little dog once jumped over shadows of a gate on the ground. I thought maybe I accidentally taught her something but yeah, maybe she was thinking they were holes.

[AliceNewman-te]

My current service dog in trading was absolutely convinced that the black and white tile floor in Sephora was a big pit 😂 with lots of help we eventually overcame are fear and now walk normally over such floors🎉🎉🎉

[AutumnVulpes]

how odd, learn something new every day! thank you for all the great tips!

[cassieandchloe]

My boy got a bunch of early exposure, but once he reached about 10 months old he got scared of shiny floors again. Hes just now growing out of it even though weve been super patient and jept things short.
Shoes helped a lot!

[Felix-jonj]

i've never thought about the flooring appearances potentially being frightening vs the way i did think about texture. thank you for sharing!!

it also fits the same logic of having dogs exposed to different people and accessories or devices (wheelchairs, hats, masks, etc), my own personal dog isn't bothered by people walking oddly due to disabilities or carts (and i don't think wheelchairs or canes either) but masks of certain shapes freak her out and it's a testament to how we as humans are so desensitized to all the odd things in our world or different people that we may forget our dogs aren't desensitized to all of this naturally! flooring, elevators, different people, it's all a skill we as handlers need to work towards teaching them to ensure that they're successful in work and daily life.

[IsabelleBouchard]

Oh, you've already been training Denver to walk by your side! 👏

[earthwendy]

Excellent reminder! Never thought of this in terms of service dog training! Tho I know from first-hand experience how painted highway lines can stop a saddle donkey in his tracks—regardless of oncoming traffic!

[StarkKAcademy]

Thanks for the reminder, gotta make a Sephora run.

[Chronicallypoppy]

First place I took my service dog to when he was ready for public access was Sephora because of the black and white flooring!

[mobstercrow]

I don't blame them, it also fucks with my mind when I see floors like that. I feel like I'm going to fall.

[YurioPlisetski]

Do you have an online course of some sort? If not, are there any you recommend

[Milliedragon]

What to do when you're the one that views it as void and falling to your death ? and may get a service dog for that (along with many other things. I have proprioception issues due to being autistic, and it creates vertigo for me so basically, I get paralysed or have a panick attack and literally cannot walk near void or anything that makes my brain think it's void. I need someone to help me pass for stability, so having a service dog guiding me would help. But it's not just for that).

[wookiwoo]

Oh wow! Im getting a service dog pup next week, and i never wouldve thought of something like this!! Do you have some sort of checklist for FULL socialisation, including things like this we wouldn't usually think of?

[busybeeinid]

My service puppy is almost ten weeks old and wondering how I can walk her. Did you use puppy shoes to keep Denver safe from germs?

[shadowdancer]

Your pup's walking pattern seems a bit odd in the hindlegs. Might just be the flooring and trying not to slip tho?
I don't know all that much about dogs, but most I've seen seem different in the hindlegs

[HashGordonsGrow]

I don’t agree with this service dog bullshit going on right now, you got people bringing dogs into grocery stores and letting them ride around in the carts. What if somebody’s deathly allergic to dogs and because you’re too much of a coward crybaby to leave your house without your emotional support animal, they end up in the hospital? If you can’t go anywhere without your animal stay home and order instacart, Amazon and Uber eats. I’m really tired of people taking advantage of this.

[kittyslyfox]

Ngl I have a hard time sometimes with the light to dark transitions the amount of times I’ve JUMPED over an area because I thought there was a hole or a step and my SDIT just looked at me funny is too many 🫠