Service dogs provide assistance to people with physical and psychiatric challenges and this is Koda, a young black labrador retriever. Her human is Hannah and Koda helps her because she has bipolar disorder.
Hannah and her partner Linsey run Limitless Freedom Dog Training. I met them several years ago when they responded to a model call I put out for a commercial photo shoot.
If you follow my Instagram, you’ve probably seen their dogs before because over the last few years, whenever I have commercial clients that need dog models, I usually contact them first. Their dogs are beautifully trained and gorgeous and when I’m doing commercial work having well trained dogs certainly makes my job easier.
So I’ve photographed their dogs a few times but it’s always been for commercial work. This year for her birthday, Hannah asked her parents to gift her a photography session so this photo shoot was all about Hannah and her dogs.
As I am typing this now, I am wishing I’d taken photos or videos of their van when they met me. Their van is the ultimate dog mobile. I don’t remember how many crates and dogs they had in it but there were several!
I remember thinking, what a life for these dogs! They get to go out and about all day every day and have adventures.
Koda is technically a rescue. Limitless Freedom had worked with her back in 2019 and when that family needed to rehome her, Hannah and Linsey took her in. After she settled in, it was apparent that she was a special dog and they began assessing her temperament for service work.
Kim Hollis
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