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Dog's Best Friend

Professional and knowledgeable dog training servicing the roaring fork valley Insured dog walking/sitting services around the Roaring Fork Valley.
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06/21/2024

We've been having so much fun working with this little cutie. Wednesday has a space bubble that if another dog enters elicits some undesirable behaviors. She also strongly dislikes head on approaches like walking down a path towards a dog. We've been focusing on these triggers in particular building skills to handle these situations and just building her overall confidence and feelings of safety in these scenarios. Team Wednesday is crushing it and I'm so happy to be along for the ride helping them grow and learn together!

05/10/2024

I just can't with this one 🤣 excited for his first haircut so we can see even more of that adorable face!

05/10/2024

Wednesday is learning how to slow down her greetings or just walk away and not greet at all if that's not actually what she wants to do! Also a dog making eye contact with you isn't scary, it's a great thing and a cue to check in with dad instead for direction/help. Wednesday has made her second friend now without the usual fuss it would take to get there first!

05/10/2024

I haven't seen Faith in 3 months, with her family we worked on leash skills, being more neutral around dogs and people (over excited greeter), and recall. Sometimes we'd run out of treats on an extra exciting walk working through so many distractions. Yesterday I had significantly less treats on me to start AND came home with plenty to spare! We passed dogs and people with ease at closer distances and her leash skills were top awesome! I could tell how hard her parents have been working! You will always need to carry treats with you for training, but with consistency and hard work the need to use as many treats start to dwindle as the dog gets more fluency in there skills! So when your trainer has you feeding alot of treats to start, trust the procress! Skimping in the beginning only gets you so so results.

05/09/2024

Cats 🤣🤣🤣🤣

05/09/2024

Happy birthday to this special lady! We love you so much duckie!

05/02/2024

Maisy quickly becoming the 2nd honorary puppy raiser after she learned from the first and best Daphne 🥰

05/02/2024

Morning well spent with these two 🥰 2x a week we do a decompression walk in the woods. Dogs need to check out and relax just like we do! We go to quiet spots where we won't see anyone else ideally and the dogs can just be dogs with minimal interruption from me.

04/22/2024

These two were on fire today 🤣🥰

04/22/2024

Ralphie says it's getting toasty out there! Lots of shade and water breaks during training for this guy!

04/22/2024

So nice spending a relaxing weekend with our little sasuage buddy! Some dogs need alot of exercise and others less, it's not always directly related to size either. Disco is more of a homebody, he likes a solid walk a day and then would rather craft at home 🤣 (play with toys, chew on bones, snuggle for hours, etc). Sometimes it's hard to accept your dog may have different needs and a different lifestyle you envisioned living with them, but the sooner you can accept it, the happier you both will be!

04/19/2024

This little ball of energy has been working on playing it cool greeting new (and old-read me every single time he sees me 🤣) friends! Today he appropriately greeted a new person within minutes and me right away! Instead of leaping and trying to kiss us in the face, he side body targets our legs for some lovins! Go Lando!!

04/19/2024

Wild ween on the scene today 🤣

04/17/2024

Lande worked hard for this uneventful moment 🤣 she is working on playing it more cool around other dogs and learning how to calmly approach! She slowly made her way up to Dolly more appropriately only to be ignored 🤣 the perfect first greeting! Keep it chill and easy! Who will get to be Landes first fun greeting?!

04/16/2024

We are going to miss having this little puppy monster around! Carson was so much fun to host and such a smart, brave, little nugget! House always feels so empty after our boarding clients go back home 😢

04/16/2024

A d***y teenager and his distinguished older sister 🤣 Chief had a brain for about 70% of the walk! That's alot for a teenage hormone monster! Bronte was perfect as usual 🥰

04/09/2024

Our little sasuage boy 🤣🥰

04/07/2024

Sausage in the house! Can you guess his favorite activity 🤣🥰

04/07/2024

was born to be wild and we love her for it 🤣

04/03/2024

So proud of maisy today! We are working on some Cafe skills so for now we are sitting across from one a little more out of the hustle and bustle, but where she can start to practice the behaviors we are looking for. It was an especially challenging day and she rocked it! Had it become too much I was ready to pack up and leave! Don't force your dog to stay in situations they aren't ready for. Just try again with more suitable conditions!

Daphne, princess of the littles, enjoyed raising a new minion today! Cooper! Everyone did so wonderful including 1 year old maisy not being too crazy with Cooper and respecting his no's to her invitations to play. A skill daphne has been helping her develop! Daphne always enjoys her extra payment when there is a new puppy arpund 🤣

04/03/2024

Duffin tuckered after his learning walk 🤣

04/03/2024

The best little psycho in all the land 🥰

03/30/2024

Abby and Sierra enjoying their staycation 🥰 we've spent our time going on nature walks, snuggling, working in the garden, and learning how to ignore the tortoise 🤣 hence the tether on Sierra to prevent her from going to the baby gate and obessesing over what the tortoise is doing. Not an option, please choose something else to do 🤣

03/26/2024

Wild ween 🤣 we love our little biscuit buddy!

03/26/2024

Gert had some special visitors! His first family Pie and Augie! Pie kept looking in the table to peek on him! So fun to have the gang reunited for a night 🥰

03/26/2024

Another frisky duckie day 🤣🥰

03/26/2024

Maisy made a new poodle friend today, Dolly was very jealous since her and maisy usually play. Dolly politely tried to instigate play with her friend by zooming close by a few times....no such luck...then she got mad and tried even harder so we leashed her briefly. 3 is a crowd 99.9% of the time in dog play, even among a group of friends!

03/23/2024

Gert had his first field trip of the year! He lasted one hour before he needed a nap 🤣 he's been working hard on his summer home as well!

03/20/2024

Daphne in peak form today. She was so frisky today AND walked past the carcass without fighting me on it 🤣 we've been working on our cooperation and today it paid off! To top it all off there was a big noise in the bushes from snow dropping, Daphne came over and confidently guarded me (I presume) she stood on my foot, with confident body language ready to spring into action if needed! If we didn't already know it, today confirms it's. She's perfect 😢

03/20/2024

So excited to be working with Duffin and his family! Duffin is pretty great and easy going naturally but doesn't mean we can't improve some things! Well be working through our goals with learning walks and coaching! Stay tuned!

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Sahale has been working hard on her calm feelings on car rides to fun places. She was whining, barking, panting, and vibrating out of her skin on car rides to our hikes and when you parked the car the chorus of barking began. Then that led to over aroused behavior like pulling and hyper activity on the walks and an inability to train on these walks because she was so amped up. I'm so happy to share we have gotten to a point where she can now eat a bone on the car ride, arrive to the hike, look around, and settle back down on her own while i get ready. Her behavior on the hike improved on its own too by addressing the root cause not the symptoms (pulling on leash). So proud of this wild child 🥰

Teaching Abby to go get the babies laundry hamper and bring it to the laundry room 🤣 she also knows how to take the clothes out of the dryer. She'll be taking requests for laundry jobs in no time 🤣

Practicing for joining the circus 🤣 sometimes life happens and you can't walk your dogs. What do you do then? There are SO many other forms of enrichment we can (and should be regardless) provide our dogs with! This trio got to play, sniff around, then learn new active tricks all while i rested my foot! Sometimes you just need to think outside the box! If you need help with enrichment ideas or providing your active dog with exercise that isn't running 10 miles a day to exhaust them email us today at [email protected]!