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Everyone say hello to Remy and Eleanor who had their initial assessment with Kelly.Owner concerns: Human reactivity, Dog...
24/08/2025

Everyone say hello to Remy and Eleanor who had their initial assessment with Kelly.

Owner concerns: Human reactivity, Dog reactivity, Leash manners, Separation anxiety, Basic manners, Obedience, Biting/ Nipping, Recall

My assessment: Remy is a 6-year-old English cocker spaniel and Eleanor is a 3-year-old Golden retriever. Both came from good breeders, although both as puppies had a foundation in the issues they have now as adults. Remy was always a bit nervous and more shy leading to his fear based reactivity and Eleanor was always ADHD excited balls to the wall leading to her excitement and frustration-based reactivity.
Both of them had done puppy classes but unfortunately due to life Mom admits she wasn't consistent in their training afterwards.
There are no deep seated massive issues with them and their relationship with mom and dad, but Dad issuing consequences and punishment for bad behavior has made them more respectful of him. Mom utilizing positive only reinforcement has made them walk all over her with no accountabilit - That's why she is the one having issues more so than him.

Stay tuned: We are going to do a five package training program to get a good foundation in a respectful relationship with Mom as a confident and clear leader/parent.

Everyone say hello to Fino who had his initial assessment with Kelly this morning. Owner concerns: Human reactivity, Bit...
23/08/2025

Everyone say hello to Fino who had his initial assessment with Kelly this morning.

Owner concerns: Human reactivity, Biting/ Nipping, Aggression (has the intention to harm), Dog reactivity, Leash manners

My assessment: Finu is a Peruvian rescue dog that came from a hoarding situation where there were 30 dogs living in 300 square feet. Because of this knowledge we are going to assume that he doesn't have the best genetics and did not have the best upbringing which has exacerbated his fear-based reactivity issues with humans and other dogs.
When I attempted to come in the home it was not possible for us to even speak without him having a complete meltdown so we decided to go outside and have a chat just the humans.
Mom had tried everything at this point from other trainers who trained Fino but didn't train her to a behaviorist that said to behaviorally euthanize when medication didn't make a dent in his problems.
She's coming to the program with a prong collar, but was not taught how to properly use it so they have reverted back to the harness for simplicity. He is also always muzzled around people.
Because he has seizures and is on anti-seizure medication unfortunately doing organic anti-anxieties like CBD or THC are off the list of possibilities and they have already tried to all of the pharmaceuticals.
The true tell of his behavior is the fact that he goes to doggie daycare without issue and can go to the vet without Mom without issue. As soon as I took him away from her, there was about 1 minute of sassy behavior before he just snapped out of it and we went for a normal walk together and became friends. Clearly he is capable of calming down but him and Mom have a very toxic cyclical anxiety-based relationship that we have to fix.

Stay tuned: five package training program coming down the line 🐾

YOU GUYS GUESSED RIGHT!The injuries from this morning's post were from a GOLDEN RETRIEVER!The point to be made is that A...
23/08/2025

YOU GUYS GUESSED RIGHT!

The injuries from this morning's post were from a GOLDEN RETRIEVER!

The point to be made is that ANY dog can bite and cause injuries, even ones you think "would never"

Treat ALL dogs like the domesticated predators they are and have respect for their ability to cause harm 🐾

Inanimate objects are neutral. You can take a knife and cut a cake or cut somebody's fingers off🔪 🍰 ✋🏼 You can take a ha...
22/08/2025

Inanimate objects are neutral.

You can take a knife and cut a cake or cut somebody's fingers off🔪 🍰 ✋🏼

You can take a hammer and build a house or tear one down 🔨 🏠

There is no "good and bad" tools. What somebody does with it and how they use it is what turns that experience into a positive or negative one.

We have seen dogs have positive experiences with prong collars and negative experiences with harnesses. We have watched dogs get worse with positive reinforcement and better with positive punishment.

Stop blaming tools and start blaming users and how they use them incorrectly.

What breed of dog did this?
22/08/2025

What breed of dog did this?

Hi everyone, meet Hanpi Gorgeous Female GSD, 10m. Perfect puppy until she wasn’t. Has had an initial assessment and a co...
22/08/2025

Hi everyone, meet Hanpi Gorgeous Female GSD, 10m. Perfect puppy until she wasn’t. Has had an initial assessment and a cognitive behavioural therapy session with Mais

owner concerns : where did my perfect little puppy go? Human reactivity, dog reactivity noises reactivity. The family is walking her at 11 o’clock at night and before 8 AM in the morning. Some of you know this feeling.

Our prescription : resigning her up for the cognitive behavioural therapy program. And we’ve already had our first session with fabulous results. Hanpi talk to the method right away being a smart working breed. Her mom has reported on day one and two that she’s already calmer more happy and playing more. ⭐️ getting some mentoring help from to ensure a success for the family. Also keeping Kelly close on this one as it is a very interesting case.

Mom has really taken to the method she applied at creatively and intuitively ⭐️

stay tuned to see this girl who hasn’t been able to come out of her apartment. Much head back to her best life.

Everyone say hello to Fletcher an English pointer/Gido mix rescued from Korea he’s 3.5y just had an initial assessment O...
21/08/2025

Everyone say hello to Fletcher an English pointer/Gido mix rescued from Korea he’s 3.5y just had an initial assessment

Owner concerns: leash manners and recall

Assessment: Fletcher is super smart with a ton of training on him. However, he is lacking handler relevance in areas of heightened excitability, including anything on the ground that he can sniff, super common with any hunting dog breed. He has pry drive, other dog excitability, and anything with movement. When it’s anything less than quiet, he’s at the end of the leash the whole walk unless he’s constantly being managed which drives his owners nuts and we drive me nuts too.

Prescription: after providing options, his parents have decided on the Canines Cognitive Behavioural program - mostly because he has to over process his situation, but lacks processing in heightened activities. We will be working recall exercises into this program.

He’s a happy boy. Can’t wait to get him more connected with his family 🧡

THANK YOU FOR A GREAT BIRTHDAY 🎉Between the posts, messages, DMs and more I was flooded with love yesterday ❤️ I finishe...
21/08/2025

THANK YOU FOR A GREAT BIRTHDAY 🎉

Between the posts, messages, DMs and more I was flooded with love yesterday ❤️

I finished my day off with a wonderful dinner with friends - every single one of whom I met thru my love of dogs either rescue or training. What a testament to why I love my job so much, not just being able to help people and dogs but create a network of support and friendship 🫶🏼

Thank you all for being part of my Pack 🐾

Happy Birthday Kelly!! We love you just the way you are!! Hope your day is fabulous! Filled with lots of dog kisses! 🩵💙💜
19/08/2025

Happy Birthday Kelly!! We love you just the way you are!! Hope your day is fabulous! Filled with lots of dog kisses! 🩵💙💜

Everyone say hello again to Kobe who had his third session with Kelly out of his five package training program. Owner co...
18/08/2025

Everyone say hello again to Kobe who had his third session with Kelly out of his five package training program.

Owner concerns: Dog reactivity, Leash manners, Socialization

How it started: Kobe is a very typical young Rottweiler; very intense with meeting new people and new dogs, extremely stubborn, dramatic and deep down a little sensitive boy.
He was being given far too much freedom and choice in the home and not enough direction or leadership.
They had done a number of other training programs but not received the success that they had hoped for, we are their last hope.
His parents recently had a baby, which shifted life around required a whole new program.

What we did: They were already using a prong collar, but like so many Rottweilers, prong collars are merely a suggestion hahaha I knew from the get that I wanted to add in an e-collar. Once we set up some new protocols for people arriving in the home, we practice some basic leash manners and clear direction before conditioning to our new tool inside to back up our new people protocols.

How it's going: up until this point Dad had just been using his working level which was 8/100 and only inside to magnify commands. Today we brought it outside to magnify our heel command and then start to roll up as digital leash pressure.
Once that was mastered I brought out Blue as a trigger from a distance for Dad to practice a strong LEAVE IT with a roll up ecollar pressure.
By the end of the session he was walking loose leash at Dad's side while passing Blue not even 10 ft away.

Stay tuned: They will be practicing what we learn today between now and next session in two weeks and then we're going to be adding in closer distractions and triggers to continue to practice neutrality with our new tools and techniques.

Everyone say hello again too Ryder who had his second session out of his five package training program with Kelly. Owner...
18/08/2025

Everyone say hello again too Ryder who had his second session out of his five package training program with Kelly.

Owner concerns: Human reactivity, Dog reactivity

How it started: Ryder is their first bully breed, and overall he's a very good boy but he has a couple of somewhat typical bully breed quirks.
He doesn't like strangers walking straight at him and non-consensually engaging with him, and can be quite dramatic about creating space (But without causing injury).
He gets very very excited about seeing new dogs on leash and that can be a production.

What we did: for our first session we did some in-home structure and protocols for people's arrival using a newly implemented house leash slip lead and promoting and rewarding calm and neutral behavior.

How it's going: For this session we met at LaFarge Lake, which used to be a favorite spot of mom's before Ryder's reactivity. It was a nicely saturated Sunday providing a wealth of triggers and distractions. For our first round he was a perfect little angel so we decided to push the boundaries and walk the lake - which mom had concerns about with the tightness of the paths, triggers along including ducks in the water. We added MousePig to the walk as a additional trigger/ distraction
Thanks to his intense prey drive with ducks I finally got to see the true naughty Ryder behavior of redirecting in times of overthreshold. When Mom held him back from going after the ducks he turned to nip at her leg, I took the leash and he did the same to me. Being that this was his first time on a prong collar, it definitely magnified his intensity, so we stopped and waited for things to calm down before re-engaging with him positively and giving him more choice in moving forward with reinforcement of high value treats. Once we got through the chaos we switched him over to his harness and finished off the walk in a much more calm state.

Stay tuned: next session we are going to be implementing the e-collar to his toolbox and conditioning it to basic commands and obedience.

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How Kelly became the Crazy Dog Lady

Kelly has always had a love for dogs, and grew up in a household where she had four that were her best friends. After she graduated with a biochemistry degree from California State University at Fullerton, she moved to Washington state where her love for pitbulls began. She started PB and Chi Dog Rescue Society in 2012 and worked hands on with over 500 dogs and felt rescue dogs was her true calling. Seeing the issues the dogs coming out of the shelters had, she got her certification in dog training and started working hands on with the reactive and unsocialized ones in particular as there was so little training willing and able of working with them. Through the course of her rescue and training experience, she built a pack of her own dogs that she worked diligently to balance and work together in harmony. She now uses her own skills, along with those of her ten pack, to help dogs and families all over the lower mainland to find their family harmony too. She always says “whatever your issue, I have a dog for that!”