Pit Crew IL Rescue

11/21/2024

11/21/2024

Rest in Peace Titan 😔 Thank you for your service & heartbreaking sacrifice 💔🌈💔

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Coweta County, GA - A K9 with the Coweta County Sheriff's Office was killed by a suspect who fled from the police last week. According to the authorities, K9 T

11/21/2024

🤣🤣🤣🤣

11/21/2024

Pupdate Winter:

Winter has been doing amazing! After the first few days of discomfort from the injection she has transformed into the happiest girl. She bounces (even though we try to keep her quite) on her way out, loves exploring the yard and bounces on the way back to her kennel for her quiet. Two more injections to go and she will be done with those nasty heartworms (hopefully)!

Winter is starting to crave lots of human love, it's wonderful seeing this new side of her. Winter's world is definitely changing 💖

She'd love to have a family of her very own, where she can be the queen of the house (only pet). She will love you so much you won't miss not having more!

11/20/2024

🤣🤣🤣 don't tell Axil this!

11/20/2024

When you have a bad dream and you get to snuggle with your best friend to feel better. V***n is more than happy to cuddle up close 💖

11/19/2024

Great job Odin! 💙

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A Lake County sheriff’s canine is being credited with using his skills to locate a teenage boy who went missing in Beach Park in the middle of the night. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office said Canine Odin was called into action in Beach Park to help locate a missing child. The teenager left home ...

11/19/2024

Are you managing?

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ARE YOU MANAGING?
Are you managing your dog’s environment to prevent or improve unwanted behaviour?

As people, we tend to prefer and look for the more complicated solutions to problems. This tendency is termed “complexity bias” - the tendency to prefer complicated explanations and solutions instead of looking for the simpler ones.

Surely a complicated, time consuming, detailed solution has to be more effective, superior, impressive, or correct?

Complexity bias is so relevant when it comes to changing a dog’s unwanted behaviour. We often get so stuck on trying to modify behaviour through counter conditioning, desensitization or detailed training plans when sometimes the simplest solution to the problem lies in simply managing the environment.

Dogs will do what dogs do – when an opportunity arises to help themselves to food left on a table, to bark at the gate at anyone passing by, to have a drink from that big water bowl at the perfect height, that we call a toilet, to running off with irresistibly smelly dirty underwear, to rummaging through bins in search of anything that may or may not be edible, to running out an opened door in search of adventure - the list is long - dogs will be dogs.

Parents of little children use management all the time without giving it much thought. Baby locks on cupboards, covers on electrical sockets, valuable or dangerous items put far out of reach, fences and locks around pools, etc.

We wouldn’t just train a toddler not to stick their fingers in an electrical socket, not to open cupboards, not to touch a hot plate – it’s far safer, simpler and logical to first manage the environment, to prevent potential incidents.

The same principle should apply to managing a dog’s environment to prevent unwanted behaviour.

The more a behaviour is practiced the more difficult it is to prevent. The more a behaviour is rehearsed the better dogs become at it.

Preventing the behaviour from happening in the first place by using management is the logical, simple and effective way to address it.

Be a good manager – it’s far less stressful, for both us and our dogs.

11/19/2024

The perfect Christmas 🎄!

11/19/2024

That is all any dog wants 💖

11/18/2024

11/18/2024

V***n had an early date with the sandman.

11/17/2024

When your dog is your soulmate, it feels like they’ve seen the depths of who you are and decided to love you anyway, flaws and all. There’s no pretense with them. They don’t care if you’ve had a bad day, if you’re broken, or if you’re lost. They just stay. Not because they have to, but because, for some reason, their soul fits with yours in a way that makes everything feel a little lighter.

It’s not about them reading your mind or sensing your moods like it’s some magical connection. It’s more raw than that. It’s in the moments where you feel like you’ve got nothing left to give, and yet, somehow, they bring out the part of you that still cares. It’s in their eyes, how they look at you like you’re the only thing that matters. There’s no pretending with them—no need to put up walls or hold back emotions. With them, you’re exactly who you are, and that’s enough.

And it’s more than just love—it’s the way they make you see yourself differently, the way they pull you out of places you didn’t even know you were stuck in. The bond is stronger than anything life throws at you because it’s rooted in something so simple and pure. They don’t just support you—they remind you, in the most basic, honest way, that you’re worth being loved. And when the world feels cold or distant, they’re the one soul you can count on, no matter what.

11/17/2024

He can't "Party Like a Rockstar"

by Shamus

11/17/2024

Facts!!