Optimism is boarding ( help unique cold harsh climate to sale basic hunting abilities. Godwin South Carolina. Our dogs profiles are up! This is still a work progress and some dogs still need a bio added, but the majority of our dogs have their monthly update on their profile. that the is live we work on adding a current picture for each of them. Moving forward, all updates happen on the profiles below. Thanks for the patience while continue to add this new feature to our website! Little Angels Service Dogs can take up to two years before they are ready to give independence to someone with a disability, depending on the dog's personality and what tasks they need to perform. Our dogs go through three phases of training.. Each dog is placed with a who trains the dog daily and takes them on weekly field trips for public socialization. Our dogs are only placed with fosters who have had extensive training from our instructors, with regular follow-up to ensure each dog's success. Fosters keep the dog for a maximum of two months before bringing them back to our ranch for assessments. The dogs interchange between living with fosters and staying at our ranch to receive well-rounded socialization with the opportunity to be evaluated by our staff regularly. This is advantageous for the dog because it allows them to be loved a family environment similar to the one they be placed with their handler, while also receiving professional training and kenneling. This helps prevent the development of problematic behaviors. While at the ranch the dogs work with our experienced staff, as well as trained volunteers, before returning to a new home environment. This process allows the dogs to live a variety of home settings with several different fosters. The goal is to have the dogs experience everything from children, to cats, to traveling. Everyone's home is different and our dogs get to experience it all. Before a dog graduates it has received a minimum of 600 one-on-one training hours by up to forty different trainers, fosters and volunteers.. After a dog graduates from Phase I of training, they stay at the ranch while our experienced trainers complete their training for their future recipient. The loving volunteers say goodbye to their doggy-apprentice and bring them to live at the Little Angels Ranch full-time, where they receive lessons each day to perfect their advanced obedience and specialized assistance tasks.. It is time for the Little Angels Service Dog to meet their new best friend, the person they were destined to help. This is a very exciting time the disabled party has waited months, and sometimes even years to finally receive their companion. During Training both dog and handler learn to work together as a team. This is usually a two week process with lessons everyday. Before too they are as close as any two souls can be, with a lifetime of companionship before them. As you can there is a lot of work that goes into each service dog that leaves Little Angels. We rely heavily on financial support order to provide these dogs. We are a nonprofit 501c3 organization. Your donation is tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. If you are able to help us this cause, please visit our Donations Status: Squirrel!! Squirrel!! Oh hello, sorry I thought you were a squirrel. bad. Want to scratch behind ears? YES! That's the spot! Right there. Hey, thanks Oh, name is Aidan by the way. I'm a lucky pup. I'm school to become a service dog and I'm really really good at it! Recently I've only been doing light training sessions and walks around the ranch though. The trainers say I lost balls?????? I 't know what that means except that we aren't able to play fetch right now. This is a very important part of the tricks I do I'll be happy when I can play again! One of favorite tricks I get to do now is this super fun game called Down and Leave it. trainer told me down. When I laid down she put all these colorful toys around me AND put this silly thing on head that looked like ears??? Then she said, leave it! Do you know what that means?? I am NOT allowed to touch any of the toys-not one-not even with nose!!! WHY?!? This is hard but still ears? Leave it? All I know is this trick made happy! She is such a silly human-that is why I her and do whatever she wants me to! They say I'm famous because they showed this trick to people on Instagram. I also learned a new trick called dial. puts a big yellow button on the floor and when she says dial I go and push the button with paw. I'm getting REALLY good at