Masterful Mutts Doggy Dojo

03/20/2025

🐾 Pooch Playoffs Update! 🏆

The voting link for Pooch Playoffs is ready: onceuponatimephotography.net/vote-pooch-playoffs

Voting officially begins March 24th! Feel free to share this link with your family and friends - the more votes, the merrier! 🎉

Important Voting Rule: To keep the competition fair and fun for everyone, each person can vote once per day using their email address. 📧

Keep an eye out for our upcoming video tutorial that will walk you through the voting process.

May the cutest pup win! 🐶

Once Upon A Time Photography

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03/13/2025

Aleu is entered in the Pooch Playoffs, if you’d like to help advance her through the contest plz vote for her 😄 voting starts on the 24th of this month will share the QR code when it’s released 😀

🐾 Meet our Pooch Playoffs contestant, Aleu - the sassy Husky with a heart of gold!

As an ambassador for husky rescue, this gorgeous girl is breaking stereotypes one 'hello' at a time (yes, she can actually talk! 🗣️). When she's not pushing shopping carts around like a pro shopper, Aleu's keeping us entertained with her quirky personality and selective taste buds (sorry, peanut butter lovers, this girl's got different plans! 😅)

🗳️ Want to help this beautiful soul advance in our Pooch Playoffs? Mark your calendars for March 24th - that's when voting begins!

👉 Follow our page to stay updated on Aleu's journey and all things Pooch Playoffs. Your vote could help crown her as our champion while supporting the Otero County Animal Shelter!

02/09/2025

Mom and Cali working on impulse control, mom did great here even tho Cali got a little to excited at one point, Mom managed to get her back in line and finish strong

02/05/2025

When dogs bite kids it’s usually cause the child isn’t respecting the dogs signs of being uncomfortable and that’s on the parents. You want to help keep your kids safe teach them how to act around animals.

01/31/2025

If a dog has no impulse control then they can never be fully reliable with their commands. Here we have Striga(3yr), and Winter(1yr),demonstrating impulse control, the flirt pole is what they love more then any treat and here they have to wait till they are released. If you would love to learn how to achieve this with your dog please contact us today to enroll your dog in one of our many different obedience classes today ☺️ ,

01/31/2025

Reason why we never recommend these and instead push the Herm Sprenger Prong collar or the leather chain martingale as these collars can be fitted correctly and when fitted and used correctly will not hurt or damage your dogs neck or trachea.

01/28/2025

Here’s another example of how to spot a puppy scam, first the intro page or home page only has a generic description of their practice, key things that are red flags here specialize in family-friendly dogs. This is a way to make buyers feel this breeder is top notch even tho all reputable breeders to this to start and to have this as the main thing is a red herring. Next is they put them through training and are well socialized, this is the biggest red flag as it’s just untrue, training and socialization can not be accomplished in such a short time and for that to be the case means they took this pups to places without them being fully vaccinated which no breeder would risk, next notice they only are focusing on the puppies not once have they or do they have anything about the parents. This is the one and main thing to spot a scam. Reputable Breeders pride themselves on their stock, the parents. They will show case them and their titles and accomplishments. As proven parents will reflect what they are capable and what the pups will also be capable of doing. Finally when you click the options you only are given 4 choices, contact them, testimonials, shipping and pups available. Now if you click the pups available you will see the biggest red flag that should give you 200% certainty that this is a scam. All the pups(which if you go to this website multiple pictures are the same pup most likely stolen from someone else’s account) look like the same dog, are the same age and are very cheap, plus potty trained no puppy will be fully potty trained at this age. 600 is way too cheap and is usually what scammers use(600-800 is the range they will price the so called pups at as it’s still a decent price but nothing high enough to which uneducated people will get suspicious), this price along with the fact they don’t let you pick the dog up and will only ship it to you is how they get more money from you, they will charge you shipping which is still too cheap and then they will contact you that the crate or something is not correct and you will have to pay more to get the correct crate or what not. They will keep trying to get you to send more and more money and in the end you won’t have your pup and won’t get the money back in most cases. Do your research, mix breeds like Doodles and other designer breeds are mutts and you can get them from shelters and rescues cheaper then going to these bybs(backyard breeders) look up what breed you are interested in to make sure it’s a fit for you as choosing a dog cause you like the looks isn’t a good reason to get that breed. Once you have found the breed you want go to the parent club for that breed(Parent clubs are not the same as AKC registry) The parent clubs put more tests, regulations and rules on their breeders then the AKC does and they have to do a lot before they are even allowed to apply for membership so these breeders are actually people and not some random guy in Africa.

01/26/2025

Here we have winter and Aleu demonstrating the difference between a wait and stay and also why we use release words to get that reliability with our commands. Winter is at a down wait and Aleu a sit stay. Notice how when I call come only winter moves as she’s at a wait but Aleu is at a stay and is waiting for the release word which is Break.

01/15/2025