Therapy Dog Training Classes & Certification

Otto is very friendly and affectionate. He wants to stop and visit everyone we pass on our walks, which makes short jaunts through the park long but rewarding. His main method of getting attention is to sit on your feet and look back up at you adoringly. He’s very eager to please and was happy to try everything in the agility class (except the teeter-totter). He’s also very sensitive and becomes dismayed when voices are raised (such as when I drop a dish, or worse), but is ready to come and nuzzle when it’s clear that everything’s OK. He is wonderful with kids and infants, even those barely walking are eager to come pet him. I suspect he favors women over men, although it may be that he just gets a bigger response from them. And, especially important as a condo owner, even though he has a big, deep voice, Otto almost never barks.

Otto enjoys visiting the Westlake Rehab center, but also provides excellent therapy to his 87 year-old grandma who has a house on a wooded lot in Pennsylvania.

Currently it’s an artichoke made by Planet D og ( USA !) that has an opening just larger than a Bil-Jac.