Pawsitive Choices Dog Services

01/27/2025

Meet Jules 💜

The happiest & most stylish girl on the block 🏘️
She loves the love from hoomans and furiends, has a dangerous wiggle bum and can easily steal your heart!

10/29/2024

HAPPY from some of our very happy pack members 💓

Featuring: Milo, Bob, August, Spencer, Teddy, Ellie, Goose, Cookie, Leelo & Aika, Benson & Sydney, Hoss & Chief, Jack, Hudson & Brody, Cashew, Winnie, Bruno & Tika 🐾

Available Walking & Training openings.
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10/21/2024

Just as social media allows us to gather information about others, dogs use their sense of smell to “read” their environment and understand social dynamics. Sniffing helps them gather details about other animals, their territory, and even the emotions of nearby creatures & individuals.

BENEFITS OF SNIFFING:
1. Information Gathering & Communication
2. Confidence Building & Socialization
3. Exploration & Stimulation
4. Stress Relief
5. Instinctual Behaviour

Sniffing is crucial for a dog’s social interaction, mental health, and overall happiness.

WALK LESS, SNIFF MORE ‼️

09/03/2024

08/20/2024

Codah, you were my joy.
My light, my companion, my shadow, my everything.
Although I’ve been through this before, this time it’s different.
This time, this dog, you, I owe my life too.
Codah, you and your brother made me who I am, the reason I do what I do.
Home was wherever you were & so every minute of my day is different without you.

I thank you for teaching me the true meaning of unconditional love & loyalty, what a true bond really is.
I think I’ve gone numb & delayed writing this post knowing it would make me break but you my boy, deserve my strength.

I am so beyond grateful for the 14 years we got.
I am so beyond grateful for the love & friendship you provided me.
I am so beyond grateful you were by my side when life was rough but also when life granted us blessings.
Thank you for doing things you didn’t want to, thank you for training when you were tired, thank you for sharing me when you didn’t want to, thank you for loving me even when I disappointed you but most of all, thank you for being the best friend, who was always there to welcome me home - who would wait outside the shower to protect me - who wouldn’t walk ahead of me - who’d make me laugh and smile on my worst days & who made me feel like someone always wanted & needed me.

I love you forever & always C.

I’ve basically lived half my life with you by my side & now to figure out how to live the rest of my life without you.

Until we meet again 🤍

06/18/2024

06/13/2024

HAPPY Thursday from our pack to yours 🐾

Featuring Finn & Lola, Marlee & Goose, Cookie, Brady, August, Spencer, Kasha, Ellie, Benson & Sydney and Leelo & Aika ❤️

06/11/2024

When your dog comes to the dog pound because you’re tired of him, because he bothers you, prevents you from going on vacation or other excuses...
He sits and waits.
He's waiting for you to come get him.
A second, a minute, an hour, a day, a month, a year --- he's waiting for you.
He doesn’t know why, but he’s waiting because he trusts you, because unlike you, he loves you.
Listen up well then. Your animal is not a toy.
Think twice before getting a pet. You have the responsibility of a living being and of a family member.
Credit Scott Poore Mission Driven

05/31/2024

Happy FriYAY 🥳

Benson, Sydney and I started off our morning at for some fun in the sun & water 🐾
Even I made it knee deep in the water retrieving my ball back, an unexpected but refreshing dip! 🌊

05/28/2024

Awareness. 😞

-Photo credit goes to the owner.

05/27/2024

The key and not so secret - secret to dog training is CONSISTENCY.
Instead of getting mad at your dog because YOU haven’t practiced or been consistent enough - try to work on helping them create better habits with understanding & GENTLE guidance by repetitions in redirecting and rewarding.

Discouraging behaviours we don’t like and redirecting into behaviours we’d prefer can help our dogs understand what we expect of them. This eliminates a lot of anxiety our dogs may feel and self rewarding behaviours our dogs might choose to soothe that anxiety.
Communication, practice, trust, respect & leadership are also major factors to your success in training your dogs behaviour.

05/26/2024

This is Caroline. She moved overseas with all her animals.
She never wrote on Facebook "I'm giving up my cats and dogs because I'm moving"or I'm having a baby or I've had the animal a year, two years or more and now I suddenly don't have time for it or can't afford to feed it.
So, when you get an animal, remember that it’s a fragile creature, part of the family and must follow you everywhere you go, otherwise don’t get one!!
Be like Caroline.

05/11/2024