Listing Dog Abilities

Hunting

tracking and killing game.

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Companion

Friendly family pet.

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Herding

The ability to control a group of livestock and aid their owners in moving the stock.

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Guarding

Guarding property and protecting against intruders.

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Water Rescue

Dogs that plunge into the water to save drowning persons. They sort of act like a flotation device.

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Rescue

These dogs search for people who are caught in an avalanche or who have been buried in rubble due to an earthquake or another disaster. Once they locate a trapped person, they will bring attention to the spot where the person is.

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Service Dogs

These remarkable dogs can act as eyes for blind persons, ears for deaf persons, or hands for people with other handicaps. In the case of a see and eye dog they will lead their person carefully navigating around barriers or things which may cause the person to stumble. See and eye dogs also are capable of watching traffic to determine when it is safe to cross a busy street and many other amazing tasks. Hearing ear dogs notify their person when the doorbell rings, the phone rings, or an alarm sounds. Other service Dogs can pick up something their owner may have dropped, or hand things to someone for their owner. Many different breeds can be trained as service dogs but we have marked this as an ability for only the breeds most commonly used. Some people have joked that service dogs are so smart they can make proper change. While I have never witnessed this, I have seen a service dog take a wallet out of a backpack and hand it to the cashier at a cafe. These dogs really are amazing.

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Drug detection

These dogs have a keen scene of smell and can detect if illegal narcotics are present on a person or in any location.

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Retrieving

This is the ability of a dog to bring something to it's owner upon request. Many dogs have a natural instinct to retrieve and wiwll play fetch for hours. Others must be trained to retrieve. This is an especially helpful ability for dogs that will be trained to be used as service dogs for handicapped persons.

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Pointing

These dogs find where game is hiding usually by scent and then point to the location with their nose and whole body. The traditional pointing pose is a firm gaze with nose pointed in the direction of the game, tail strait out and one front paw raised.

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