Day One of Training: Dog Meets Boy

Here the head trainer, Jeremy demonstrates with another service dog the "down" position. This will be used when Nick tries to run away from us. On command, the dog goes down and holds Nick from escaping. If Nick is strong enough, he, at best well drag Red behind him while he's down, but with Red at 70 lbs and growing, I don't grant Nick much luck. Here, Jeremy was able to slide this dog, Wisper, across the floor, but not real fast. Wisper smirked as if it were a fun game, staying down the whole time.