Brainstorming help, please: What job could my new dog have?

What about a therapy dog? I saw a television interview with a woman who takes her giant Schnauzer to visit hospital patients. Ralph spends every Monday at the hospital. I hope you can watch the video.

Alarm clock, garbage disposal and distribution, face washer,

EM had a great answer. There’s a big demand for therapy dogs, and all our efforts in the Middle East are going to produce a stream of PTSD sufferers. But it ultimately depends on the personality of the puppy, and it’s going to take a while for that to come out. You have to go for it and see what develops. Good luck.

They are going to be doing a new version of Let’s Make a Deal next year – they’re looking for a new Master of Ceremonies.

Your mutt could replace Bob Barker.

A therapy dog that you keep would only be used for volunteer work – as I think you know. A service dog would be turned over to someone else after socialization for training and placement.

Are you interested in raising dogs for show? Or being a handler for show dogs? That is a way to make money.

Possibly training a dog to compete in agility trials would be fun but I’m not sure if there’s profit in it.

You could train your new dog to be a model when you hold obedience classes for other dogs.

Cadaver dog

@syz Or just plain Search and Rescue?

Marijuana Finder. You could augment your income.

@zenvelo GA, he/she could work on commission.

Intruder alert.

Junkyard guard dog.

@Earthbound_Misfit what ever dog you get, make sure it’s people oriented. And the easiest way to do that is to adopt an older dog IMO. By the time a dog is a few months old you’ll have a clue what personality it will have, etc. That’s what we did, and she’s so easy to train it’s crazy. I think that’s largely because she’s always focused on me (being so people oriented and all). On top of that, I’ve had professionals tell me she’d be a good fit for a therapy dog. It also helps that there are no horrible abuse issues in her past (she isn’t afraid of being touched or strange noises, etc), but even those could be dealt with if the personality was right. It will cost money to make any dog into a therapy dog. First they have to pass obedience school, then go on to take the courses necessary to become certified as a therapy dog.

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The first animal in your petting zoo.

Part of a flyball team.

Cat exterminator

Dog Park Greeter (although this usually goes to older dogs who need to make ends meet after retirement).

I have an acquaintance whose dog was trained as search and rescue, specifically for avalanches. The dog was a yellow lab. But no one got paid.

Yeah – I don’t think most owners get paid for work their dogs do unless it is the owners who are directly involved in that work too.

Mushing, skijoring, bikejoring, canicross.