Specialised Dog Training

I am a volunteer dog trainer for Dog Aid (Assistance In Disability) a national charity, which provides specialised training for people with physical disabilities and their own pet dog.
      
Meet Bergen.

He is a fully qualified Assistance Dog. In addition, Bergen has a wonderful temperament and he is a fabulous ambassador of the breed.

	He is often to be seen in and around the shops on Allerton Road and Penny Lane; his favourite place to visit is the chemist shop at Smithdown Place, because he just loves all the fuss that the staff give him.
	He has been trained to pick up anything that his owner has dropped. He will hold his mum’s purse whilst she it at the ATM or at the supermarket checkout.
	Bergen has acquired many other skills such as: Searching for and bringing the TV remote control, the phone, car keys
	and emptying the washing machine!!!!
	not forgetting to make his bed!!

On his Thursday afternoons off, Bergen visits his best friend Keega in the Wirral. They have a play, then lunch and catch up on all that has happened since their last meeting.