Hope Verra Dog Training & Boarding

14/02/2025

13/02/2025

Introducing Heidi, this sweet girl was rescued off the streets of Bahrain🇧🇭 since arriving in Canada she was immediately sent into a wonderful foster home where she got spoiled… a little too spoiled! She has a wonderful playful personality but she almost became a bit of a brat. Her foster mom began having issues with her and other dogs including her own foster sister. I believe this is due to an imbalance in her lifestyle, not enough structure and too much crazy playtime, dog parks and on leash greetings.
I decided to take her on and get her ready for her future adopters. Since the day I picked her up, she has been nothing but a pleasure! She joined our pack seamlessly. She is incredibly smart and eager to please. Immediately taken to place, crate, heel, and recall and she has been an amazing play mate with all the dogs. It’s funny how all of the dogs problems just melt away when you provide structure and leadership🤔
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12/02/2025

Introducing Miss Maya who has been working for a while now on task training and working in public environments. She has made her owner and I so proud with the speed and enthusiasm she learns with us no matter the situation. Maya is working to earn her service dog certification in time and I know she is the perfect candidate! Her calm energy, loyalty to her owner, obedience skills down pat, motivation to please us, and just her blatant kind and happy attitude. Anything is possible when you have owners as dedicated as hers!♥️💪🏽
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09/02/2025

Two years ago today I plucked this little pup out of the puppy play pen and my life has never been the same since. Rocky is the light of my life and I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to adopt the most perfect boy. Rocky is fun and eager to please, athletic while still being able to laze around when needed, balanced and a great influence on the other dogs that come into my care. I couldn’t be happier with the young dog he has become♥️
In honour of our anniversary of Rocky’s adoption, here is a puppy dump of his puppyhood💕
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06/02/2025

Bowser is here for a one week refresher! God I love this big guy and I think he likes me too we're working on recall and ecollar conditioning along with his leash manners around people and dog distractions.
This dog is a guarding breed and his behaviour is aligned with his genetics, we're not fighting it but we're definitely guiding it into a manner that fits into a home. Place and crate training needs a refresher to lower some separation anxiety he is showing with his family to make home life more relaxing. Structure is our friend when working with these large working breed animals... or any animal!

05/02/2025

Golden hour is our favourite training time especially in the winter🌞 ah the season of burning fingers because I refuse to wear gloves to maintain my leash management and reward timing🥶
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04/02/2025

Heidi is sweet as can be and absolutely gorgeous!!

04/02/2025

Josie the frisbe champion. To some this may look like playtime but to Josie it’s a serious matter😂 Look out boys, Josie embodies pack leader energy like no other! I admire Josie’s boss lady energy in every aspect of her life💙
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02/02/2025

Rob (now Rip) spent a week with me learning the ground rules of living in a house before going off to live with his new family. It’s not easy for a dog to experience such a lifestyle change and take in everything new. He wasn’t so graceful with his move coming to Canada and experienced such stress that it really brought the worst out of him. I am so glad I got to meet him multiple times in st. Marten before working with him in Canada because I knew that wasn’t who he was deep down. He put up a front with teeth and aggression… the whole bit! But it only took some calm and confident leadership for him to let down his guard with me.
He is such a smart dog and learned not to jump on people, tables and counters quickly along with potty training, recall, leash walking in heel, and so much more! I am super proud of the progress this little guy made in just one week with structure and leadership. We focused mainly on confidence building every day around cars, people, other dogs, and more.
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02/02/2025

The best travel buddy I could have ever asked for! Grateful for service paws making my task trained service dog dreams come true. Rocky truly is my right hand man♥️🐕‍🦺✈️
https://www.servicepaws.ca
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29/01/2025

The cutest littler of puppies are ready to find their forever homes!

29/01/2025

Sweet Apollo is a Doberman pup who is with us for a 2 week board and train program. This you man has successfully gotten our creative juices flowing! No 2 dogs are the same and Apollo is a great reminder of that. Every dog that comes into our care is different and special in their own way and it’s dogs like this guy that make us passionate in what we do.
Apollo is not the dog we expected to get. We were told that he’s a fun-loving boisterous Doby pup who is pulling on the leash and is ready to move on in his training journey. However since receiving him, he is actually incredibly nervous and fearful of everything from floors to cars to leaves blowing by. We have spent our time growing his confidence in us and himself. It took some creativity to teach him not to panic on slippery tile floors.
It didn’t take long for us to discover something else is going on behind his sweet affectionate eyes. It’s evident that he some sort of neurological disorder, we suspect wobblers. His eyes, gate, balance, and movement are all showing signs of something more serious going on.
No matter Apollos difficulty, we can see he’s trying so hard to please us and is eager to learn! I’ll give another update on Apollos journey with us soon!
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28/01/2025

The three amigos🐾
Just some sweet coconut retrievers who are making the most of our Canadian winters since being taken from the Caribbean!
The truth is they are just as happy playing in the snow as they are in the sand☃️♥️

25/01/2025

Appreciate all that your rescue does! Happy I can help some of your special pups reach their happily ever after♥️

24/01/2025

Who remembers Cash?!? My little foster pup from this past summer is all grown up and thriving with his awesome family. It fills my heart to see him spoiled rotten and enjoying his life with his people♥️
While he is full of love and joy, he can be a nervous nilly sometimes causing some reactivity. I went for a long session to teach his owners how to communicate properly with body language and leash pressure. We worked on his impulse control both with play time and in the house staying in place. We worked on desensitization to knocking and the door bell. Cash was a good boy throughout the whole session but definitely showed his stubbornness and how truly spoiled rotten he is😂 he has grown into a true malinoas mix and has the energy and intelligence to prove it which means he needs constant training and exercise to keep his head screwed on straight.

24/01/2025

Rob is such a good boy, he just needed leadership to set his mind at ease. Glad I could help him get ready for his forever family!