Prairie Paws Dog Grooming & Training

19/07/2025

$5 NAIL TRIMS WITH DREMEL
TOMORROW!
Saturday, July 19th
9am - 3pm
Walk-ins Welcome! 🐕🐾
We are located in the Animal Care Centre

17/07/2025

JuJube❤️

JuJube ❤️🐾
If you know Russel ,,, this will give you an idea of how tiny JuJube is ❤️🐾

16/07/2025

This little sweetheart is 16 years old and I’ve been grooming him for quite a few years.
As dogs age they go through changes. They may become partially or completely blind, their hearing diminishes and they can only stand for short periods of time.
Because of these changes, grooming procedures change too.
We may not be able to use clippers around the face and head as it may startle the senior dog, scissors and thinning shears are used. Soft water pressure is used as well as higher water pressure has the potential to cause seizures.
Diego being familiar with his environment leads to a much calmer experience which is important for the senior dog.❤️

14/07/2025

14/07/2025

In the last few years we have seen an increasing amount of dogs running away.
There are countless posts on social media asking for help locating a missing dog.
Dogs bolting are on the rise,,,, whether it’s a front door, a gate in your yard or your vehicle door,,,, they are looking for an escape.

Why? Why is this happening more and more?

Well…..

A dog needs purpose, boundaries, leadership and structure.
Without these,,, chaos, anxiety and poor choices are created and maintained.

Your dog needs to look to you for direction and commands.
Your dog needs to be more focused on you than any other distraction out there.
Without this connection between you and your dog this will create an opening for unwanted behaviour. You become source of food and that’s the end of it. Your love and affection are conditional.

By rewarding their unwanted behaviour you will add to it.

Build a solid foundation of boundaries, structure, leadership and this will create a healthy relationship between you and your dog.
The belief that correcting unwanted behaviour will ruin the relationship between you and your dog is an illusion often based on our own uncomfortability with authority which leads us to hesitancy to assert our own. Which deprives the dog of a clear and precise path to navigate confidently.
On the contrary, this will create nothing but respect and confidence. A beautiful bond between you and your dog.

“Be the change you wish to see in your dog” Cara

12/07/2025

Prairie Paws will be CLOSED Saturday, July 12th Have a fabulous weekend!

12/07/2025

Throwback to the early 90’s of my dog, Barney and my mom’s dog, Missy

07/07/2025

The Dog Harness
Misunderstood
Truths

The dog harness was designed to make it easier and more comfortable for a dog to pull.

This is why you see them used with sled dogs, cart pulling, weight pulling competitions etc.

This is the power of the pull.

The tension the harness creates when there’s pressure around the chest gives the dog the activation and motivation to push against it and move forward with excitement and intensity.

Harnesses have the same effect when creating excitement, motivation and reactivity for the chase. Military and Police use them with great success for training bite work and tracking and more.

So in conclusion, a pet owner struggling with pulling on a leash, reactivity on a walk, no recall and over excitement to everything is usually created and maintained by a harness. (This applies to anything the leash is attached to.)

04/07/2025

Fuel and Luna after being groomed!
Fuel attended our obedience course when he was a few months old. He’s a confident, well-mannered, handsome German Shepherd! Well done to Fuel’s family ☺️

30/06/2025

We will be CLOSED June 30th & July 1st
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25/06/2025

Your dog needs a leader not a follower.

24/06/2025

Impulse control!