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11/27/2024

🤯Communicate BEFORE your dog reacts; I promise it’ll make life easier

11/27/2024

👎🏼I’m not into rushing the process for a cool Instagram video.

Slapping an ecollar on a dog session one to get an INCREDIBLE AMAZING transformation video isn’t my thing.

✨Instead, I focus on making my sessions meaningful and mindful and concentrating on the smallest of things.

To be quite honest, I do not care if your dog can lie down and stay at the end of the program if the mental state is still s**t.

😳An obedient anxious dog is STILL an anxious dog.

Mindset first, always.

Anyway, here’s Sally lookin’ CUTE AF 🤍

11/25/2024

💋Xoxo-Gossip girl

⏰No but seriously, I KNOW change is hard.
It’s HARD to dedicate that extra time in the mornings to make sure the dog isn’t busting out of the kennel or through the door to go potty. 🚪

It’s HARD to reinforce the place command (I know, tethering sucks) and it’s ANNOYING as all get out to have a leash dragging the first couple of weeks.

❔What’s harder, is spending money on a training program to have foundation laid and then feeling like it was all for nothing.

Invest in your dog and invest in the small (but IRRITATING) changes in the beginning and I promise it will pay off BIG. 🤝

11/24/2024

We have a logo!

You’ll still see the simplistic logo you’re used to, but with the passing of the two dogs that I founded my business on and who my logo already represented, I wanted to further honor them.

Not many know this but when I was thinking of a business name, I tried REALLY hard to think of a name that shortened down would also have their initials.
Thus, Northern bound K9 or NBK9 was born.

My business was founded with the two dogs that started it all for me in mind, and now it will continue on in remembrance of them, forever 🤍

11/18/2024

🌳And Sunday we said “be good or else” to W***y Vanilly aka Willow.

Willow is one of those pups that actually surprised me with how well she trained up. Mostly because after doing this for quite some time, I’m relatively good at judging how a dogs program may go.
I was so wrong, and never happier.

Willow is still very much a puppy (9 months) and has her own set of challenges due to her background, but I’m confident that with consistent follow through and support, she’ll go on to live a wonderful life 🤍

11/18/2024

Friday we said “see ya soon” to Rocky!

This boy put in the brain work and by the end, he was able to exist around both my indoor/outdoor cat AND other dogs.

Will he ever be dog social and want a ton of friends? Probably not.
But having a new way to communicate with him clearly and effectively will help his mom and dad be able to make all of their lives much bigger 🤍

11/14/2024

Told Callie we were hiking later, and that’s the only way I got her to look at me. 😂

11/12/2024

Thank you to for capturing Nemo’s last day, and the way that we feel about her so beautifully.

If you can, splurge on photos with and of your dogs. Seriously. You’ll want them someday.

My Nemo girl-

I got you back today, the same day I got these photos.
I smiled through my tears looking through them, because I know how much we loved you and I can clear as day see how much you loved us.

I will see you again. 🤍

11/09/2024

😈We also sent spicy Bica home!

Bica isn’t an easy dog, but her parents understand that and are willing to put in the work.

Chewy did a wonderful job not only teaching Bica, but teaching mom and dad how to be firm, fair and how to follow through. 🤍

You can see in the second photo that she started out the lesson stressed, as she wasn’t used to following rules around mom and dad. But by the end, mom had her cool as a cucumber 🥹🥒

11/09/2024

🥯Sent my little cream cheese bagel home today and I’m so proud of him

There’s some dogs that I get in for training that I know right off that bat are going to train up nice, and some that I know that are going to give me a run for my money.

Bego was a happy medium, in that I knew he’d work great for me but that he may struggle at home with mom and dad because of his attachment to them.

But guess what? That’s what our follow up lessons will be for! I’m confident that with continued brain work and structure that his worries will dissipate. 🤍

11/09/2024

💪🏼Practice makes progress.

Our last trial, we came 1.25 points shy of closing out our FR1.
😈Something was in the air and Arleigh was ON ONE, but look at the JOY she has in these photos.

It goes to show that dogs will be dogs, you can train and work and prep as hard as you can and your dog STILL may tell ya to F off.

✨And that’s okay!!! Roll with the punches and laugh when you can. ✨

11/09/2024

Down in the dumps, but comforted by this favorite face ☺️

11/08/2024

🎙️I often see talk about how we need to stop letting our dogs breed excuse their behavior.

✨And while I wholeheartedly agree, I believe the bigger discussion we should be having is the importance of UNDERSTANDING your dogs breed and the WHY behind some of the behaviors.

11/06/2024

I try and do this every year, as a way to give back to YOU 🤍

Valid for programs booked in December 2024 and January 2025.

✨If you have been thinking about training for your pup, now is the time!
Give yourself the gift of a well behaved dog for the holidays 🎁

11/05/2024

I wanted to write this before she leaves, in the hopes that the words would somehow jump off the screen and make their way into her head, heart and soul before she leaves this earth this afternoon.

Nemo, there are not enough words for me to adequately express what you mean to me. Our souls are one, and I will never fully be myself again without you here.

Thank you. Thank you for the big moments and the small.

I am going to miss the smell of your toes, you stealing food off of the counters and table, your attitude with every other dog in this house, the way you screech/bark/scream with excitement whenever someone comes over, how being pushed just made you jump that much harder, the way you were never close enough in bed to me and your dad, the round black on the top of your head, plucking the floofs of fur off of your chest and annoying dad.
Winters will not be the same without you eating the snow that’s being shoveled, nights will be colder without you sleeping with your head on my pillow.

I would do these last 12.5 years over and over again with you my girl.
I honestly, truly don’t know how I will continue to exist without you but I want you to know that eventually, I will be better.
We will be okay and I refuse to make you stay here as a shell of yourself just so to prolong my goodbye.

I know in your mind you are still a back flipping, ball chasing, dock diving, hiking, dog fight starting machine and I know that it saddens you that your body doesn’t enable you to do that anymore.

But where you’re going? It’s limitless. It’s forever. Please don’t forget me, please say hi to bandit, and please be waiting for me.

11/03/2024

A beautiful day for a beautiful Bica ☀️

10/31/2024

🔮Let the trick or treating commence 👻

10/30/2024

A portrait a day keeps the doctor away 🐾

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Colchester, CT
06415

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm

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http://Www.northernboundk9.com/

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