A word about our cover model
October 15, 2024
Meet our 2025 catalog cover model: TJ Horning
TJ, short for Turbo Junior, is a 9-year-old American Labrador pup. TJ is a full-time service dog who is living his best retirement life. Hiking waterfalls, truck rides, store trips, swimming, and naps fill TJ’s senior years.
TJ’s owner, Fred, is a service dog trainer. Together, along with the other 3 of the pack, they train and place a multitude of service pups.
Besides normal behaviors, the group trains 
pups for people with PTSD. The also have a specialty for training pups to help with autism, nightmare alerts, scent tracking, AFIB detection, and safety around kyacks, canoes, boats, atv’s, tractors, dozers, etc.
The team chooses labs, specifically chocolates, for special reasons. Labs train easily, are well accepted, have friendly personalities, and are long lived, just to name a few of the benefits of working with the breed.
You can find the team in one of our videos and in some other pics in the catalog and through our online store.
Along with the pups, Fred has years of training experience and in-depth knowledge of a number of different training methods.
Want to know more? Fred’s pretty private, but send us a note, and we will put you in touch.
