Thrive Canine LLC

22/08/2024

17/06/2024

Meet Macie!

Macie is a 9 month old Labradoodle, here for a 2 week board and train to get all her basics down. A couple of her other goals are…

1. No more excitement jumping
2. Slower paced walks
3. Neutrality around other dogs
4. Downtime in the house
5. Confidence building around men

We can’t wait to see all of Macie’s progress, follow along! 🐾

11/06/2024

Introducing Macie & Nova!
2 cute gals that recently started our day training program to learn all their puppy basics. Stay tuned to see their progress over the next few weeks 😸

02/06/2024

Summer boarding is officially booked up!
We are so excited to add so many new faces to the pack 🐾

21/05/2024

Tuesday mornings are for the shepherds ✨

19/05/2024

☀️ 🏊🏼‍♀️ 🏖️

22/04/2024

Jumping into the first spring BTS 📸

21/04/2024

If you pay attention to enough dog training posts and comments, you’ll notice an interesting thing...

There’s a disturbing lack of care, support, or concern for the human.

You’ll find a never ending supply of the above for the dog, but the human...nah, they must have somehow deserved what they got, or are getting. They’re painted as ignorant, lazy, and in some strange way, the enemy.

It’s deeply telling that the humans writing the posts and comments, find it almost impossible to actually care about other humans.

Who cares about the owner who’s been pulled to the ground, drug across the pavement, had muscles pulled, bones broken, fingers crushed, assorted puncture wounds and nasty gashes?

And this doesn’t even touch on the emotional fallout. Loads of stress, anxiety, fear are terribly commonplace. Having to rearrange your life to be able to walk your dog at a safe time. Not being able to safely have friends or family over. Romantic relationships getting caught in the crossfire. Hoping you don’t come home to a broken crate, and a destroyed house.

Yep, I’m a dog lover. But I’m also a human lover. That’s why I train the way I do, and why I recommend the tools I do. I want the best for both species. If training is going to work, it needs to work. It needs to be straightforward enough, simple enough, and replicable enough...for regular, everyday owners. Owners who aren’t trainers, and who don’t have 10 hours a day to devote to working some incredibly intricate and nuanced training.

Too many trainers continue to focus on the dogs, the art, and themselves. And while there’s nothing wrong with being artful and deeply thoughtful about the training process, if it’s not something your clients can or will duplicate, it’s simply a waste of time, and an exercise in self-indulgence.

The true art, the true nuance, and the true magic of great training is figuring out how to make something that IS complex and nuanced, as simple as possible. Not dumb, not unfair, not crude, but simple and replicable.

If trainers can make a shift and learn to see the human as at least as important as the dog, and at least as deserving of empathy and care and kindness, they might just find a new focus on their methods, and their tool choices. They might just find themselves realizing that owners who are happy and comfortable with their dogs, tend to keep their dogs. They tend to enjoy their dogs. They tend to give their dogs much better lives.

And if dogs are your passion, then perhaps when you realize they only thrive when cared for properly, you might leave the fancy, the complex, the ego-fueled lingo, mindset, and techniques at the door, and instead find what actually works for those who’ve asked for their help.

And maybe even do it with kindness and care. Just a thought.

11/04/2024

Happy 1st Anniversary Thrive Canine 🏆

What a year it’s been! This year has been filled with hard work, challenges, and triumphs. We have met the most amazing people and some outstanding dogs. We have grown to points I never thought we would be at this soon, and I am forever grateful.

We would never have been able to make it to this point without the support of all of the people that took a chance on us from the beginning, and you know exactly who you are! Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart, for being part of the Thrive Canine family and continuing this journey with us. I can’t wait to see what this next year brings us 🥹🫶🏼🧡💗

-Brittany

31/03/2024

Happy Easter from 2 cute bunnies 🐰

22/03/2024

WE are Thrive Canine 🧡

I would be crazy to say that I could run this business solo. This is my husband Sean, for those of you who do not know. Sean is such an amazing, essential part of Thrive Canine and I am so grateful for his dedication and commitment to our clients and dogs. If you know Sean, you know just how much he loves every dog that comes though here. He's always ready for walks in the freezing cold, late night training sessions, throwing the ball 500 times, and so much more. He levels me out so I'm not always thinking of every situation as a dog trainer, but also as a dog owner. Even on our craziest of days, we have Sean with a smile on his face. I am forever thankful that my business partner is also my husband!

18/03/2024

Scheduling update 📆

08/03/2024

Spring is right around the corner, you can tell by the excitement over here this week 💐

05/03/2024

HIKING UPDATE:

Hi All! We have a few new program updates coming to Thrive Canine but I want to start with scheduling. Time Slots ⏰

As most of you know, we run on dog time. Sometimes it can take extra time to get pups out of the car and onto the trail, chat with owners upon drop off, battle traffic, etc.

Every scheduled hike will now received a time slot range. When you are booking a hike, please let me know which time slot you are interested in. If there’s no availability in that range, I can give you the next closest option. I will continue to send text updates as I am on the way to pick up!

Time Slots:
7-9am
9-11am
11-1pm
1-3pm

As always, thank you for trusting me with your pups and I can’t wait to jump into spring 💐 

20/02/2024

We love a sunny afternoon ☀️

13/02/2024

Lots of bright ☀️ this week, thankful.

01/02/2024

Meet Nelly ⭐️

Nelly is a 1 year old Bernese Mountain Dog who is here to brush up on a few skills! We will be working on some things like:

-Leash Manners
-Basic Commands
-Confidence Building
-Over excitement in the house
-Barking in the house

21/01/2024

Ice Ice Baby 🥶 we made it thought this freezing week!

08/01/2024

S N O W E D ❄️
I N 🏡
P H O T O 📸
D U M P 🐾

07/01/2024

TC Winter Hats Available! $30

Taking orders until tomorrow ⏳
Venmo:

20/12/2023

Sun kissed Blu ☀️ showing off some manners in the trails yesterday.

20/12/2023

Kodi has been working so hard to make his parents happy at home, and that they are!

We are very happy with how far he has come, good luck back home Kodi🎉

14/12/2023

December so far ❄️

12/12/2023

Meet Kodi 🧡

Kodi is a 9 month old Bernedoodle who is here to break a few bad habits…

- Jumping
- Pulling
- Hu***ng
- Counter Surfing
- Stealing Socks 🧦
- Nipping

We will be working our general obedience on top of providing Kodi with structure and clear boundaries during his stay!