A big portion of Service Dog training is training the dog to be comfortable with not actively doing something. The dog must be comfortable with both active and passive tasks. Much of the time a Service Dog is working they are doing things passively.
The goal of a Service Dog Trainer is to make sure that the SD never experiences something new after the leash is turned over to the Handler. The goal is to make sure that every SD knows what to do in every kind of situation. From the most critical to the most mundane…
So that’s why I will have Zeus ‘watching for things’ even when I’m in the bathroom.