- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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35 people are interested
Cuddle Puppies and Meet Cool People!
ORGANIZATION: Gabby Jack Ranch, a division of Canine Service Connection
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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35 people are interested
We are looking for happy, helpful volunteers to assist our trainer during dog training classes!
You will be inrteracting with the puppies and dogs and helping their people while you gain dog training skills to work with your own pets!
We use Karen Pryor Clicker Training programs and some of our clients are training their own service dogs. You will be helping people who are working hard to regain their independence. It is a rewarding job!
Classes are held on Saturdays, from late morning to early afternoon, and once or twice a week in the evening.
While you will enjoy working with the dogs and puppies, we need volunteers who are not afraid of cleaning and straightening up. One major task is to clean and sanitize the floors between classes. That is such an important job, you will make sure that our classes are safe for the small puppies who will be attending.
Our classes are interactive and you will work directly with puppies and dogs during your volunteer work with us.
We need reliable individuals. You will be sitting on the floor sometimes (not required for every volunteer so if you can't, just let us know!) and bending down to play with pups. You may have to lift up to 30-50 lbs, again, not everyone will do this but some will. We need people to help take payments and to attend our small store.
The classes have started so please apply today!
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About Gabby Jack Ranch, a division of Canine Service Connection
Location:
PO Box 667, Penn Valley, CA 95946, US
Mission Statement
VISION STATEMENT
To live in a world that understands, assists and encourages people accompanied by well-trained service and therapy dogs in public places.
MISSION STATEMENT
Our mission is to make Canine Service Connection (Gabby Jack Ranch) programs the most innovative and successful service and therapy programs available. We accomplish this mission by introducing programs that are modern, effective, and affordable for all qualified dogs and human participants.
Description
Our core values include:
- Triad Team placement; consisting of quality dog breeders, skilled trainers and the person with disabilities or therapy dog handlers. At the core of this triad is the carefully selected and matched puppy
- Early matching; using the insight of breeder, trainer and client, we are able to match and place a puppy with their partner; enhancing bonding and communication to build solid foundations for learning
- Early bonding; we believe that puppies are continually learning and watching so that they can communicate with their human families. By placing a puppy within the home or community of the client, early bonding can take place and enhance the communication level of both the human and the canine
- Teaching dog/human communication skills; we believe that dogs are capable of communicating with their humans; our clients are taught to pay attention to the subtle cues and mannerisms of the dog. Dogs are very sensitive to subtle cues from their human partners, even if the cues are non-verbal we help our clients recognize and use communication skills beyond verbal commands
- Home Centered: Our program begins in the home of the client; taking advantage of the natural bond that forms from an environment of love and companionship during the training process
- Care for the Dog: The Gabby Jack Ranch is guided by recent advances in anthrozoology (the study of relationships between humans and animals) and Dog Cognition.
- Innovation: Gabby Jack Ranch offers unique programs: Homefront Dogs for returning US war veterans Advanced Therapy training for trauma therapy dogs (such as court dogs, catastrophictrauma comfort dogs, etc.)
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
8212 Fair Oaks Blvd.Carmichael, CA 95608
DATE POSTED
January 10, 2015
SKILLS
- Organization
- People Skills
- Animal Care / Handling
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 15
- Saturdays, 5-6 hours, some weeknights for 2 hours
- We are looking for happy, pleasant, helpful people.