Thrive Canine LLC

12/12/2024

Bye Bye Fall 👋🏼

23/11/2024

Emmy is a sweet 1 year old Bernese Mountain Dog mix who is here to work out some nuisance behaviors and get more advanced with her obedience! Some specific things Emmy will be working on during her stay:

- Stopping all jumping/counter surfing
- Duration on outdoor commands
- Leave It
- Loose Leash Walking
- Recall

25/10/2024

16/10/2024

Frenchie Wednesday in full effect 🇫🇷

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