Welcome to
Buckeye Service Dogs!
Thank you for visiting Buckeye Service Dogs! Choosing the right service dog provider for you is an essential part of the process of obtaining an psychiatric, mobility, or seizure service dog.
I hope the information we have provided here will assist you in your journey. Please feel free to contact us by email or phone. We would be happy to answer additional questions or set up an assessment interview.
Christy Talbert
Owner, Buckeye Service Dogs
Please contact me with any questions at BuckeyeServiceDogs@gmail.com
About Us
Buckeye Service Dogs provides service dogs to assist with a variety of needs:
Psychiatric Service Dogs respond to various serious mental health issues by interrupting harmful behaviors; mitigating outbursts; and alerting to and de-escalating panic attacks, PTSD episodes, and other challenges. These dogs identify the early stages of an episode and are task-trained to respond with deep pressure therapy; assistance in grounding; and other tasks. Since 2016, BSD's Co-Train program has helped more than seventy young adult and others select and train their own psychiatric service dogs. We also provide fully trained psychiatric dogs for those unable to attend Co-Train.
Mobility Dogs are for persons with mobility impairments (wheelchair, crutches, etc.), or mobility impairments. These dogs provide balance and brace assistance; item retrieval; and other tasks tailored to the individual's needs.
Medical Response dogs can respond to a seizures, fainting, and other medical conditions by summoning help and at times safely positioning their human partner during an episode.
Many of BSD's dogs perform a combination of these duties to serve people with numerous needs.
I began training service dogs as a volunteer for Support Dogs for the Handicapped (founded by Sandy Maze) in the early eighties.
At that time, using dogs to assist persons with mobility impairments was a completely new idea.
The training techniques I use today are the same ones myself and my mentors developed early on (although, much refined now).
I have continued to train service dogs. Often, I did this on a volunteer basis, but I also was employed by Assistance Dogs of America, first, in the late 80’s and later in 1990, first as a contractual trainer and then for several years as Director of Training. When ADAI moved entirely to it’s location in Swanton, Ohio, I didn’t want to relocate, and assumed my days as a dog trainer were over. As it turned out, I continued to get requests to train dogs, and BSD was born.
In 2016, to meet the needs of the growing number of young people living with serious mental health challenges, I developed the Co-Train program with the help of several of my team trainers. Co-Train is now in it's 9th year and has successfully graduated more than 70 students.
Qualifications of Christy Talbert, Owner, Buckeye Service Dogs
