Happy Birthday to our sweet boy Ryker 💙🥳🎂🎉
Stephanie working with 1 of the small dog groups on their group sit stay.
This is a skill that can be utilized in so many different environments and situations. Notice how each dog is able to patiently wait for their reward while the dog next to them is reward. Another important skill, impulse control!
Some tips for you to practice at home with your dog 👇
➡️ Go back to reward your dog rather than call them to you. This will help them be patient knowing the reward is coming to them.
➡️ Start with duration holding a sit rather than distance.
➡️ Pause when you step back to your dog before rewarding, this will help them learn that your approach doesn't end the behaviour.
➡️ Try moving your feet from side to side or back and forth while leave your torso still.
Shout out to Gizmo, Brisket, Chipotle and Dax for doing a wonderful job! 🎉
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Happy Birthday to Rufus!!! Rufus was born 4 years ago on a leap year (Feb 29th) so last week he turned 2/4 years old! 🥳🎉💙
Our Trick class has been having a ball learning all about luring, shaping and capturing!! These pups will be ready for the circus in no time!! 🎪
Next trick class is scheduled for May. Keep an eye on our social media for exact dates!
Reminder we are Closed tomorrow Monday Feb 19th for Family Day 💝
Open Tuesday Feb 20th regular hours!
Happy 2nd Birthday to silly cutie pie Josephine 🥳🧁🎉💓
Thank you for bringing treats to share with all your 4 and 2 legged friends!!
Happy 7th Birthday to our sweet beautiful girl Ruby ❤️🎉🥳
It is with a heavy heart that we are saying good bye to a very important staff member at Wild Tails. 💔
Odessa started working here as a teenager while still finishing high school. She was lucky enough to move from the bathing department and into Playskool as her passion was to help dogs emotional state and their need for knowledge. Odessa quickly found a knack for helping our shy anxious dogs, working a lot with our rescues and smaller crew. Her patience and calm energy put them at ease while learning what Playskool was all about.
Odessa continued her education by attending VIUs animal care aid program. She then went on to become one of our Certified Professional Dog Trainers starting Puppy Social groups in 2022.
Playskool wouldn't be what it is today without the guidance, love, and support that Odessa has given to the dogs as well as to the other Playskool staff.
We wish Odessa all the best in this next chapter of her life ❤️
New baby Willow had her Playskool assessment this morning. She met a wonderful group of appropriate dogs, then went for a sniffy walk on the grass field, followed by a kong in her nap time kennel. Welcome to Playskool Willow!
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We have a few spots open in our upcoming Elementary Skool class starting Wednesday April 26th at 6pm!! 🥳
This class is great for adolescent dogs, recent rescues or if you and your dog just need to brush up on the basics!!
For registration contact the shop at 250-758-3908 or sign up online at wildtails.ca
Just by chance we had 2 puppies come in today for playskool that happened to be littermates!! Lea and Shanti the Portuguese water dog babies!
We started by allowing them (one at a time) to watch the dogs through the fence first. Followed by some meet and greets from appropriate playmates. Short positive interactions before doing some separated bin enrichment and a sniffy walk on our fenced in grass field. After a short nap in individual kennels with a filled kong they were able to interact and play with one another before their paw-rents came to pick them up ❤️
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