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Here is our Fall Class of 2025. If you didn't get class pictures taken for the fundraising event please do not worry! We...
11/13/2025

Here is our Fall Class of 2025. If you didn't get class pictures taken for the fundraising event please do not worry! We will do another round with everyone this spring.

11/12/2025

Our field trip today was a huge success! We focused on leash manners by the river and everyone did fantastic! Great job guys!
I do have space tomorrow if anyone is interested!

Mundie has an upset tummy so we were up most of the night cleaning up poo. At some point during our emergency upset tumm...
11/12/2025

Mundie has an upset tummy so we were up most of the night cleaning up poo. At some point during our emergency upset tummy let out someone knocked a glass bird feeder off the stoop so then we were cleaning up broken glass as well at 3:30am. The smashing sound scared Marzen, who then took Sazz and Gose on a panicked lap around the outside of the house. It was well after 4:30 by the time I got everyone back inside and settled. We are tired. Dogs are ridiculous. Happy Wednesday everyone.

11/12/2025

Day 11 of Heel.Sit's train your dog month series. Today we are starting targets, which is one of the most useful skills you can teach a dog. We are starting with a nose touch because hands are convenient and we tend to always have them with us. I do find this to be one you have to stick with for a few sessions but once dogs understand the idea, they do really love it because it's easy. We can use this to redirect our dogs, help move them around, and start a lot of trick training or cooperative care behaviors. Warm up with the treat toss and then having some treat dust or smell on your hands will help encourage them to bump their nose into your hand to get things started. I also find tossing treats away and letting your dog move back towards you makes it easier.

I'm starting to schedule our next round of group classes. With the winter months we will be shrinking class sizes, but o...
11/11/2025

I'm starting to schedule our next round of group classes. With the winter months we will be shrinking class sizes, but opening up more time slots. If you've already taken the reactivity rehab class but want to keep working feel free to sign up again and we will adapt the class for your dog. I also really encourage everyone with reactive dogs to follow along with our daily training videos this month. They focus heavily on foundations that will help your dog with more reactive specific training skills. Next month our daily videos will focus heavily on management ideas, but January we will be doing a series that focuses on reactivity. More class announcements to come! Sign up is through Paw Partner. Its getting cold out! Come play inside!

11/11/2025

DAY TEN! We made it 1/3 of the way through our Heel.Sit train your dog month series. Today we're revisiting the hand game to show the set up for how to take it on the road! We use this while waiting at the vets office or to teach settle behaviors out in public. Remember that there are lots of right answers and got want to be flexible and patient. No cues. You can build this into a great sustainable settle game if you increase duration gradually. Release them often in the beginning though so they don't get frustrated.

I’ve gotten a couple of questions about our emergency slip collars that we wear during our field trips, so I wanted to f...
11/11/2025

I’ve gotten a couple of questions about our emergency slip collars that we wear during our field trips, so I wanted to further explain them. On our field trips we prefer that everyone wear a harness, especially when hiking and for long line time. For an extra added safety precaution we added a slip collar that attaches to the front of the harness. It is only there to ensure that if someone slipped their harness they would still be safe and on leash. It’s something we hope we never have to use but it is there just incase! We always want to make sure everyone has a great time and is safe while doing it. Please let me know if you have any other questions and I still have some space this week during our 3 days of field trips!

We got to work with this girl last week as well! I heard she can be a bit loud in her kennel which can discourage people...
11/10/2025

We got to work with this girl last week as well! I heard she can be a bit loud in her kennel which can discourage people from giving her a chance, but we didn't see any of that when she was outside! She was so sweet and trying so hard to connect with her handler.

We will offer a free first training session and discounted training and boarding for anyone that takes this girl home!

Heel.Sit Weekly announcements: SCHOOL PICTURES are here. I just need to sort them and they should be ready to pass out t...
11/10/2025

Heel.Sit Weekly announcements:

SCHOOL PICTURES are here. I just need to sort them and they should be ready to pass out tomorrow. I do apologize for the delay. We had a lot of people adding last minute and I didn't want to say no and then I had to edit them. Then when it came time to order them I realized a lot of people hadn't paid so I wasn't sure what even to order and it was in the middle of the crazy two weeks that was nationals and Halloween pictures and I just didn't have it in me to chase everyone down. This is why I don't do a lot of fundraising events. I ended up just guessing and ordering what I thought was right or close enough. If you haven't paid please do.

KENNEL COUGH season is here. It comes every year and we try to be ready for it. We have had a few cases. So far just a couple cases of mild coughing. We are keeping an eye on it. We clean more. Everyone is doing separate water. We will do smaller groups. We are also offering pumpkin and greek yogurt snacks to anyone who is allowed to have it. Please let us know if you DON'T want your dog to have any. I have found that healthy guts go a long way to speed up recovery or prevent symptoms. Older dogs, very young puppies or dogs with preexisting issues should take extra precaution. Everyone else should be fine but please let us know if you are seeing any serious symptoms. For my personal dogs I don't really worry about a cough unless it lasts weeks or the dogs seem lethargic or stop eating and drinking. It's similar to little kids at preschool, bugs come and go, all we can do is try to lessen the impact. Everyone did a great job last year of communicating and working together to keep everyone healthy and I know we can do it again this year!

We get to start redoing our main kennel area this week and I'm so excited. This one has been plaguing me for YEARS. One more big thing off my list!!

That is all. Happy Monday.

11/10/2025

Day 9 of Heel.Sit's train your dog month series. Today we play the search game. It's essentially the treat toss with a cue to find the treat. When conditioned well, this game becomes imperative for helping reactive dogs deal with the environment. It's also a great way to redirect a distracted dog or move a dog from one area to another. I even use it a lot when dealing with resource guarding issues. The key is you have to condition it a lot when you don't need it so it's there when you do.

New day alert! If you’ve been wanting your dog to join in on the fun but Wednesdays and Fridays don’t quite work, this w...
11/09/2025

New day alert! If you’ve been wanting your dog to join in on the fun but Wednesdays and Fridays don’t quite work, this week I’m adding Thursday! 3 days of field trips this week! Comment here or message us to sign up!

11/09/2025

Day 8 of Heel.Sit's train your dog month series. Today we are working on Here, Here which is a casual heel. We start this off leash. We use this game to teach dogs to move with us. This skill becomes really important when we start teaching leash manners or dealing with reactivity.

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