Okanagan Trick Dogs

01/10/2025

I am proud to share that Poppy passed her Service Dog Public Acess exam today with flying colours!

Poppy and her teammate have been training with Okanagan Trick Dogs weekly for the past 9 months.

Poppy is a Coton de Tulear, and is just over 2 years old. She loves cozy bedding, peanut butter toast, and accompanying her person to important board meetings.

Now that she has earned the right to work in all public spaces, Poppy looks forward to showing off her service tasks while she holidays in Europe this summer.

Congratulations Poppy!

Settling mat by A Little Pawpular

10/15/2024

For the rest of October I am offering free Novice Trick title evaluations via video.

Does your dog compete in agility or another dog sport? If so, your pup probably has enough skills to earn your Novice trick title.

Simply choose 15 tricks from the Do More with Your Dog trick list, and DM me a video of your dog demonstrating the tricks. Videos can be one unedited training session, or seperate clips edited together.

Not sure where to start? Message me for my ‘easy mode’ foundation trick list.

1 Teach 15 Tricks from the Checklist Pick 15 tricks from the Tricktionary list. Teach them with the help of the tutorial videos. 2 Show your tricks to a Certified Evaluator You can find an in-person evaluator in your area, or you can show videos of your tricks to an evaluator in one of our Facebook....

07/27/2024

New profile pic.

07/07/2024

How are you keeping your dogs cool and hydrated in the summer sun?

Tonight my crew got bone broth soaked kibble frozen into moulds.

These refreshing ‘pupcicles’ added some interest to our lazy Saturday, and kept my dogs busy for about 20 minutes.🐕🐩🐕‍🦺🐾

06/17/2024

Alpha Bacon Kibble’s nightly frat house meeting.

Today new pledge Star ⭐️ the poodle is learning how to hold a group sit. Every couple of days I move her up a step. Stay tuned for a tight group shot!

Patience is a virtue that must be continually maintained.

Do you practice training your dog in group settings?

06/05/2024

06/04/2024

Pups and Pride?!? You don't want to miss this.🐾🌈

Join us for the 1st Annual Big Gay Dog Walk: Kelowna Edition! ✨

Starting at the Sails at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, June 4th (that's tonight), we will be walking along the boardwalk to the Dog Beach located at the end of Lake Ave. via the tunnel under Hwy 97. Come dressed as you like! In casual comfy, or in full pride prima donna. We will be awarding incredibly generous prizes from Tail Blazers Kelowna in the following categories:

🐕 Twinning
🐶 Puppy Love
🐾 Stunning Senior
🐕 The Underdog (Pride Fashion is Overrated)
🐶 Best Dressed (Pride Fashion is Everything)
🏳️‍🌈 KPS Pup-scot (Grand Prize and unofficial pup mascot of KPS)

We will also have influencer Graham Shonfield, who has partnered with Starbucks to distribute Pup Cups, as well as Shona from Okanagan Trick Dogs available to chat with. Prizes will be awarded at 8:00 PM at the Lake Ave. Dog Beach.

🗓️ Date: June 4, 2024
📍 Location: Kelowna City Park and Lake Ave Beach, 1600 Abbott St, Kelowna, BC
⏰ Time: 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Enjoy a beautiful walk, meet new friends, and show off your pet’s pride spirit. No tickets or RSVP needed – just come and have a paw-some time! 🥳

www.kelownapride.com/event-details/the-big-gay-dog-walk

05/22/2024

A few times a week I fill and freeze all my kibble puzzles and liki mats for to provide enrichment and variety during crate and meal times.

What’s your favorite way to jazz up your dogs day?

04/07/2024

Hi everyone!

Shona Gagnon here 👋

I’m needing a set of helping hands to take some video of me training dogs this spring using my iPhone.

Ideally someone that is available for 2 hours on a regular weekday afternoon starting the week of April 19th until June. All filming locations are in Kelowna, and I can provide transportation.

In exchange for your time and your steady hands, I can offer a credit for private dog training lessons.

I specialize in training pet obedience, tricks and service and therapy dog skills. Lesson credits are transferable with no expiry date.

Interested? Questions?

Dm me Okanagan Trick Dogs

📸 Sara Nicole Photography - Okanagan BC

03/05/2024

02/17/2024

Earth Angel.
Bonnie Cleve’s Fern 🌿

01/29/2024

Spot the difference. 🐶🐶🦊

It doesn’t matter if you call it ‘place’, ‘go to bed’, or ‘mat’- teaching your dog to chill out on cue is one of my favourite behaviours to teach pet dogs.

On Friday I had a great mat work training session at Jazzed Up Agility with Spud 🥔 the and puppies Diamond 💎 and Veda.

Teaching a dog to be still, stay and relax on a mat is a useful trick to teach if you want to encouraging calm behaviours at home and in public.

Once a dog learns that relaxing= working they start offering settled behaviours more frequently in their day to day lives. The more you reward this behaviour, the more your dog will repete it.

Jazzed Up Agility
Nisi and Lisi
Canadoodle Australian Labradoodles