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03/29/2024

Cute idea!

An Easter egg hunt for dogs can be a fun way to kick off springtime, Easter, and the better weather days ahead! It’s a rewards-based activity for dogs that exercises their brain as well as their body.

03/26/2024

Do you like to take your dog for a walk or to the park?

02/28/2024

This friendship is fur real 😍

02/27/2024

Pets can experience behavioral challenges and anxiety. Here's how to address them:

❶ Positive Reinforcement: Reward good behavior to encourage it. Ignore or redirect unwanted behavior.

❷ Consistency: Maintain consistent rules and routines. Pets thrive on predictability.

❸ Training & Socialization: Invest in training and socialize your pet from a young age. It builds confidence.

❹ Exercise & Mental Stimulation: Keep your pet physically and mentally active. A tired pet is a happy pet.

❺ Desensitization: Gradually introduce your pet to what triggers their anxiety to help them adapt.

02/19/2024

Happy Presidents Day from all of us at Power To The PawZ Pet Services & Education, LLC.

02/16/2024

Bringing a new pet home? Here's how to ensure a smooth introduction:

1️⃣ Neutral Territory: Start the meeting on neutral ground, like a park, to reduce territorial conflicts.

2️⃣ Controlled Introduction: Use leashes and carriers for controlled and safe first meetings.

3️⃣ Gradual Acclimation: Allow short, supervised visits between the new and existing pets, gradually increasing their time together.

4️⃣ Positive Reinforcement: Reward both pets for calm and friendly behavior during meetings.

5️⃣ Respect Existing Pet's Space: Ensure your existing pet's safe space is respected and not invaded by the newcomer.

02/10/2024

The only thing you need to turn a sad day into a happy one is guinea pig cuddles 🥰

Our newest part of the PawZ team, Michelle & Noah, have 4 guinea pigs! They're the best

02/09/2024

February is .

We know you love your pets but life gets busy. This month is a great time to evaluate that all of your pets needs are being met.

Are they getting enough exercise? Can they be properly identified if lost? Do you take them to the vet regularly for check-ups?

01/30/2024

As you start to plan for vacations in 2024, don't forget to make arrangements for your pets!

encourages us to use up those vacation days and to think through all aspects of the vacation planning process.

What do you do with your animals when you go on vacation?

01/26/2024

That is HER cat now!

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01/18/2024

It's and we'd love to learn more about all of you!

Tell us a fun fact in the comments.👇

01/16/2024

is with her goals this year! She wants a DRONE with her first year cookie business which means she needs to sell 1000 more boxes! She's already sold almost 200 in less than a week so show her your support!

That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.

01/15/2024

This is exciting!

01/10/2024

Coco is new to coming to visit us at Power To The PawZ! She was recently rescued from one of those not so wonderful breeding situations we hear about 🫣 She's now living the good life with her new mom and learning all the good things fur pups get to experience. 🥰 Noah is working with her here on socializing and sit.

01/05/2024

Did you know it's National Train Your Dog Month? Did you or someone you know get a new dog recently? Private Virtual and Limited & safe In-Home sessions with a Certified Professional Dog Trainer! http://PowerToThePawZ.com

01/05/2024

Holy moly...

‘This is Cecil. He has never done anything bad in his life until he ate $4,000.’

Clayton Law pulled $4,000 out of his joint savings account last month. He and his wife were having a fence installed at their home in Pittsburgh, and the workers asked to be paid in cash.

After returning from the bank with a sealed envelope full of $100 and $50 bills, he set the money on a kitchen counter, intending to stash it away. But he never got the chance.

Thirty minutes later, Law was stunned to find tiny pieces of chewed-up bills strewn across the floor. In a panic, he hollered for his wife, Carrie Law.

“He was shouting, ‘Cecil ate $4,000!’” Carrie recalled about that Dec. 8 afternoon.

“I ran in, thinking I had to have heard him wrong, but when I saw the mess, there was no doubt,” she said. “I thought I was going to have a heart attack. Cecil had really done it.”

Cecil is a 7-year-old goldendoodle that has lived with the Laws since he was a puppy. For five years, he had the run of the house until the arrival of the Laws’ son, Rory, now 2.

“Cecil’s a goofy guy and he’s very particular — you could leave a steak on the table, and he wouldn’t touch it because he’s not food motivated,” said Carrie, 33. “But apparently he is money motivated.”

Cecil had not been interested in things on the counter in the past, nor had he torn up items that were up there.

“He has never really done anything bad before, so we were more shocked than angry,” added Clayton, 34. “We couldn’t believe it. We looked at each other and said, ‘What are we going to do?’”

While Cecil skulked away to take a nap on the living room sofa, the Laws called their vet to see if they should bring him in to be checked out for eating the stack of cash.

“Given his size of 100 pounds, we were told as long he was eating and drinking and going to the bathroom, he should be fine,” Clayton said. “If he were a small dog, it would have been a different story.”

He and Carrie then decided to salvage what they could.

They gathered up the torn bills and were able to piece together about $1,500, Carrie said. She then called the bank and told a manager what had happened.

“I felt like a kid who says, ‘The dog ate my homework,’” she said. “I was surprised when they said they’d seen similar things happen multiple times — that maybe dogs liked the particular smells on money.”

The manager explained that the bank would take back any bills that had been taped together with the full serial numbers visible on the front and back, Carrie added. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing also generally requires that at least half of each bill is salvageable.

“Cecil was sitting on the sofa full of $2,500, and we knew there was only one way to get that money back,” Carrie said.

Late that first night, Cecil vomited up a couple of torn hundreds, Clayton said, but he and Carrie would have to be patient and summon their humor to retrieve the rest of the bills.

Clayton intrepidly donned a mask and gloves, grabbed a bunch of plastic bags and accompanied Cecil on his backyard rounds over the next two days as the dog relieved himself.

He and Carrie then sifted through the dog’s droppings and washed the torn bits of bills with dish soap in a utility sink.

“I never thought I’d be able to say I’ve laundered money, but there is apparently a first time for everything,” Carrie said.

“Here we were, waiting for the dog to go to the bathroom so we could get the rest,” Clayton added. “We had to laugh at the absurdity of it.”

He and Carrie decided that if they could find humor in the situation, others would, too.

The Laws made a video with the photos they’d snapped of their dog’s $4,000 meal, then posted it on Instagram.

“This is Cecil,” it begins. “He has never done anything bad in his life until he ate $4,000.”

The video of them washing money and patiently piecing it together like a jigsaw puzzle has been liked more than 175,000 times.

After the Pittsburgh City Paper wrote about what happened, Carrie said she snuggled up next to Cecil and read the piece to him as a bedtime story.

“We couldn’t be mad at him — he’s a very lovable dog,” she said. “People often tell us there’s a human trapped inside our dog.”

She and Clayton were able to retrieve about $1,800 from Cecil’s backyard deposits, boosting their total to $3,550.

Carrie said she plans to send the washed remnants they couldn’t piece together to the Treasury Department, in the hope they might get some of it back.

If not, the Laws said it’s the price they must pay for a family story they can pass down to their son.

“We’ve kept at least one of the torn-up bills so we can do a piece of artwork and frame it to commemorate the entire situation,” Carrie said.

“Not that we’d ever forget,” she quickly added.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/01/03/cecil-dog-eat-money-cash/

01/04/2024

Who got a new puppy or rescue dog over the last month or two?

01/04/2024

Do you know what January is? NATIONAL TRAIN YOUR DOG MONTH! We are giving you SO many opportunities to get started or continue your training adventure! We are so excited and expect to be SLAMMED this month! If you believe your dog isn't quite ready for a group class and want to schedule an Individual Private Training Session, please fill out our Training Registration Form on our website.

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01/01/2024

Happy New Year!

12/31/2023

Sunny has been with us for the past week at the PawZ Pup Academy working on her core puppy manners and skills. Isn’t she adorable?

Everyone wish her good luck on mastering her skills. I think not being a kangaroo 🦘 will be her biggest achievement!

12/31/2023

Holy moly this is fantastic!

Management is something every trainer I know talks about - it’s one of the first conversations I have with clients. Baby gates, x-pens, leash tethers, the list goes on…

I’ve always thought I was good at finding adaptive solutions but today I walked into a lesson and was blown away by the genius of my client! Their dog is a big boy who loves to counter surf, but also struggles with being confined.

Look at this beautiful AND creative solution they came up with! This is a portable ping pong net 🤯 I am so in love with this and was so impressed with their ingenious idea.

You can find them on Amazon - get one while you can because I think this is gonna be a new trend 😂

12/29/2023

Be still my heart 😍

12/28/2023

Who got a puppy for Christmas?? Never too early to start training!! 5 star reviews!! Power To The PawZ Pet Services & Education http://PowerToThePawZ.com/Dog-Training

12/28/2023

Top 10 Toxins of 2023

Pet Toxicology Experts Release Top 10 Pet Poisons List for 2023, Announce Toxin Tails Voting According to case data released by Pet Poison Helpline, ma*****na is on this year’s Top 10 Pet Poisons list for dogs, while cats don’t seem to be too interested in sampling the jazz cabbage. Chocolate, h...

12/25/2023

Wishing you Joy and All the things!

12/24/2023

Don’t forget!

12/21/2023

And puppies... All things puppy!!!

12/20/2023

I nose I'm cute!