Yogadog Dog Training

01/18/2025

Dogs completely ruin your furniture, but they make your life complete ❤️

01/14/2025

Keep an eye on your small pets 🙏

01/11/2025

Snowshoe Recalls 🙌

01/06/2025

A Muttley Crew…hikes with hounds…it’s the best way to start the new year! All the best from the ranch hands at the Gateway Ranch!

01/02/2025

Tis’ the season to get out there with your best friends!

01/02/2025

Happy to report…no regrets waking up to 2025 😂

12/31/2024

Babe’s bringing in the New Year!

12/25/2024

Merry Christmas from Babe and Titch ❤️

12/23/2024

Travelling over the holidays with my two besties! Merry Christmas from the Wet Coast 🎄

12/08/2024

From HugABull:

A PLEA TO SPAY AND NEUTER YOUR PETS

We are pleading with the public to SPAY AND NEUTER your pets. In the last few weeks, we have taken in three large litters of newborn puppies. Today, we picked up a pregnant mom due in a few weeks, while last week we tried to help a pregnant dog who was ultimately given away for free on Craigslist. This is absolutely unacceptable and rescues cannot sustain the number of unplanned litters that are overwhelming us all and taking resources from other dogs who are in desperate need.

While we understand that veterinarians now recommend waiting to spay and neuter dogs until they are over a year old for health reasons - this is not an excuse to be irresponsible. If you are unable to prevent your dog from impregnating another dog or becoming pregnant - SPAY OR NEUTER YOUR DOG.

Spaying and neutering your pet isn’t cheap and can cost anywhere from $400-$1000 depending on where you are located. Having a dog is a big responsibility and it is a privilege. If you don’t have the money, start a savings plan and while you’re saving, be responsible - keep your dog away from intact dogs, don’t let your dog offleash or unsupervised. Don’t put them in a situation where they could possibly get pregnant or impregnate another dog. It is THAT simple.

If you cannot afford to cover the entire cost of spaying or neutering your dog, please visit our Reach Page as we offer financial assistance (provided we have the funding). If you believe your dog has recently become pregnant, reach out to your veterinarian to see if the pregnancy can be terminated. The world does not need more puppies and even breeders are surrendering their animals because they are not selling due to a saturated market. We need to do better - the dogs deserve it.

Our Reach program is funded entirely by donations - if you would like to help us create change, please consider making a donation today. Thank you.

Donations are always the most direct way to help, and we do our best to stretch every dollar as far as we can. Veterinary bills are by far our biggest expense! ​If you are a business or have ideas/connections for corporate sponsorship please email us!

11/30/2024

Ranch Life ❤️

I’m working hard on exposing the dogs safely to the horse…they are wary of her, with good reason. Every once in a while they will bark and lunge at her out of fear. She could easily lash out and kill them, or spook and hurt herself…break a leg or a fence. I’m so fortunate that this horse has been around hunting dogs all her life and doesn’t even flinch!

You have to do a lot of foundation training with dogs be for you trust them with equine. Untrained hyper dogs are a recipe for disaster on a ranch. We have four dogs here now and they are all still learning to be good ranch hands. People often contact me to rehome their hyper dogs to a “farm”, but hyper dogs that haven’t been trained, desensitized and taught respect are not a good match for livestock 🤷‍♀️

We spend a lot of time in the barn, in the feild and in the corral just being together calmly. The dogs help me bring her up to the barn every day for lunch and we built trust. My two mutts are rescues, that I got as puppies at 6 months, but they didn’t see chickens, donkeys or horses until we moved here! Anyone who has ever rescued knows they all come with quirks…so it is an ongoing journey with Babe and Titch!

11/27/2024

Titch is the keeper of the gate at the ranch ❤️

11/25/2024

Author unknown…but my sister shared this with me….because…she knows ❤️

11/23/2024

For the dog training geeks!

For those of you who know me prior to the ranch, you know one of my greatest passions is dog rescue, rehabilitation and training. I became fascinated with canine physio when I worked with rehabilitation of a certain lab puppy and was challenged by a client to train it to go on a treadmill in preparation for hydro therapy.

Here I am doing physio with my own dog Babe to treat a chronic hip issue. She gets chiropractics weekly, but that isn’t really helping, so I’m going back to basics! These are the exercises I did with her as a puppy…to strengthen her hind end. She was a rescue from Texas and arrived to Vancouver all legs and no muscle. These exercises seem simple, but are hard to do properly and are the best way I have found to alleviate pain, work on hind-end awareness and correct posture.

Sorry about the bad audio! Probably worth mentioning I left the heat cranked in the dog psychology room, so the fan is running to push it to the rest of the house! I’m in shorts today because it feels like summer in here. A very nice contrast to the snow outside!

For those of you who know me prior to the ranch, you know one of my greatest passions is dog rescue, rehabilitation and training. I became fascinated with ca...

11/23/2024

Have a great weekend y’all 😂

11/19/2024

A roll in the hay on a snowy day!

11/16/2024

Ranch Life!
My girl ❤️