At W.A.G.S. 4 Kids, we're often asked about how we train our service dogs to behave so well. The answer: our founder spent years and years working with dogs and developing a successful method of training that all of our dogs now partake in.

Today, our staff trainers, Lisa, Josh, and Rodney, teach these methods to our inmate trainers at the Mansfield and Grafton Correctional Institutions, who in turn help train the service dogs in our program. In celebration of National Dog Training Month, we're sharing with you some of the basic training methods we use to work with our service dogs in training.