Toro's Dog Training Academy, LLC

01/16/2025

01/16/2025

My primary goal in starting this business has always been to identify the gaps in the dog industry and understand why owners often face challenges with training. Over the past year, I’ve gained invaluable insights into what our communities need to help dogs and their owners live happier, healthier lives together.

I’m now excited to take the next step in creating a brick-and-mortar facility, leveraging my eight years of experience in this field. I plan to dedicate the coming year to spending quality time with my son while carefully planning for a pet-centric business that prioritizes the well-being of dogs and their owners.

In the meantime, I'm more than happy to answer any questions via email or text, or provide recommendations for trainers in your area! ❤️

01/10/2025

Love a Pitty filled day ❤️

12/06/2024

Let’s talk dogs + kids. Owning a dog or multiple dogs while having children can be a challenge. We want to give our kids full attention while also ensuring our dogs are safe and happy. Here are some tips:

🐾 Don’t assume your dog(s) will LOVE your kids - Children are sporadic and unpredictable and dogs do not typically enjoy that.

🐾 Don’t make management extremely difficult because you will not maintain it. Find ways that will easily allow for quick and effective management of dogs and kids.

🐾 Crate the baby 🤣 okay sounds funny, but really the best management I have used was a play pen from the time Levi came home. At first as the dogs adjusted Levi spent his tummy times and play times in his play pen. This way the dogs could see him and have freedom to move around him without being up in his space.

🐾 Baby gates: use them! Gate off play areas, baby’s room etc.

🐾 Get very familiar with dog body language and listen to your dogs!

🐾 Teach kids how to do consent checks with dogs. We do not grab toys from dogs or pet dogs until the dog has invited us to the interaction.

🐾 Crates are a great place to feed your dogs and give high value items so kids cannot mess with their stuff.

11/22/2024

Holidays and cold weather are no excuse to put off training your pup! Take advantage of our holiday discounts running from December 1st - January 17th. ❤️🐾💚

Visit torostraining.com to contact me for more information! 🐶

11/22/2024

“Place” command is great for picture taking 👍

Unless you have a German Shepherd….🤣at least he makes the baby laugh 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣

11/15/2024

Nora had some fun training today! 💙

11/01/2024

Juniper has been doing training for a while now and has come such a long way ❤️ such a smart puppy 🐾

09/20/2024

In need of some training for your pup? $45 consultations the entire month of September! 🐾

Visit: https://www.torostraining.com/ for more information.

09/20/2024

Nature 🌳

🐾 dogs are predisposed to many behaviors that may include nipping at ankles (herding), barking, resource guarding, anxiety, prey drive and so much more.

🐾 These behaviors may never be able to be trained out and may rely on responsible ownership and management for the life of the dog.

Nurture 💖: Is it all in how you raise them?

🐾 As stated above nature does play a role in how dogs adapt to different situations.

🐾 nurture does not just mean loving your dog - it means taking the time to socialize, provide appropriate enrichment, train and manage your pup.

🐾 socializing = a lot of frequent positive exposures to an assortment of different things.

🐾 simply being raised around something (ex. children or other dogs) does not mean a dog will always love them. Nature plays a role + POSITIVE exposure (aka respectful interactions) make all the difference.

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06/13/2024

Levi Daniel born 6/9/2024 at 6:24 PM. 5 pounds 3 oz. 18.5 inches 🍼👶🏼

He decided to make an early arrival but is doing well with the amazIng NICU staff 🩵 So appreciative of the support and generosity I received from all of my clients during my pregnancy! I already miss your pups so much! 🐾❤️

05/22/2024

Good Morning from Olive 🌤️💛🌻

05/13/2024

All smiles today 😄🩵☀️

05/12/2024

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the human AND dog moms out there ❤️

05/03/2024

As the weather gets nicer everyone will be out more with their dogs. So lets talk about why I am not a huge fan of neightborhood strolls.

🦮 you are rarely able to set your dog up for success - distance is your dogs best friend when they are reactive, socializing to something new or just unsure about a person/dog/object. In most neighborhoods you simply cannot make the space your dog needs to feel confident and comfortable about their environment.

🦮 these walks aren’t doing what you think they are doing - a stroll around the block is often very understimulating and provides little actual physical exercise for your dog.

🦮 there are just better options 🤷🏼‍♀️

Playtimes, interactive games and high quality sniff walks are always going to do more for your dog than a simple walk around the block. Once or twice a week make some time to put them in the car, drive them to a nearby park, field, even an empty parking lot and let them sniff, explore and enjoy their walk stress-free! 🐾

05/02/2024

🍼Maternity Leave Update🍼

🐾 As of May 1st 2024 I am no longer taking new daytraining or field trip clients until after my leave.

🐾 Private sessions will remain open throughout the remainder of May and some of June. Please contact me here for more information or to get scheduled: https://www.torostraining.com/contact-8

🐾 In the meantime, please feel free to contact me at [email protected] with any questions you may have! I would love to continue helping people to find other trainers in their area, give enrichment ideas or answer general questions you may have about training throughout my maternity leave!

I plan to return back to normal scheduling in late 2024/early 2025! 🦮🐶🐾

04/09/2024

Spring? Is that you?? ☀️🌼🌸