Lexie Smith trains Gracie to help her with daily activities
PELL CITY – A local resident is training a service dog to help her with day-to-day activities.
Lexie Smith has been training her 9-month-old Great Dane, Lexie’s Blue Angel of Grace, or Gracie for short, for about four months.
“I have been training dogs and horses all my life,” Smith said. “I trained dogs with a police department in Georgia, and that made me a lot more aware of what they are capable of.”
“I researched service dogs for over two years,” she said. “I had a lot of questions about getting a service dog, because I wasn’t sure how much one could really help me.”
Smith said once she decided to train a service dog, she researched even further on what type of dog to get, eventually settling on a Great Dane.
Smith said Gracie will eventually learn to pull Smith’s wheelchair and shopping cart.