Sarah and the Pack

11/10/2025

Fall skies and cow pies…

11/08/2025

A Friday night with these lovely gentleman ( Misha- not pictured - she was a blur).

11/07/2025

I have been onboarding a few dogs recently and it’s so fun getting to know them!

One of them is Ollie. Ollie was adopted about a month ago, and a week into his new life, his humans reached out to me for some dog-dog socialization opportunities as well as training. He has been to daycare 4 times now and I’m also giving his humans training support, and I can’t even put into words how excited I am to work with them.

Turns out Ollie is a spicy little man!

He is a ‘bark first, ask questions later,’ kind of guy and lives in an apartment with all kinds of noises to bark at and neighbors to piss off.

He has big feelings about things he values, which can manifest as resource guarding.

While his foster mom said he was fully crate trained pre adoption, Ollie said, “Naw Uhhhhhhhhh!” And made it clear he hates the crate.

All of these issues, barking, resource guarding, and crate aversion, are super common but often difficult to understand and treat effectively.

What I love is that Ollie’s humans want to learn why Ollie exhibits these behaviors. They want to understand him, not juat ‘fix’ him. It makes me so excited for their future together.

Here’s a video example of training support I’m giving them around resource guarding, a particular passion of mine as Ruby was an epic resource guarder and taught me everything I know.

Would people be interested in videos/podcasts/blog posts to hear me/see me talk about specific case studies like Ollie’s?

11/04/2025

Starting the day with an off leash field trip with these 3 gorgeous pups! Jean Gipple

11/03/2025

11/03/2025

This is a hard post for me but it is really important:

In June, Ruby passed away at home, in my arms.

She was euthanized.

This was my choice.

It was/is the right choice for us.

It's a choice I never in a million years would have thought I'd make.

It could garner quite a bit of judgement, especially on a public page, but I’m posting because I desperately want to tell Ruby’s story with the hopes of preventing Ruby situations in the future.

My words are all over the place, but I just found a podcast that explains this really well. Please listen. In memory of Ruby:

https://youtu.be/bNND88_JMvM?si=iA_NDVPAJngy6WnF

10/29/2025

Welcome, Billy and Ollie! Aiden Olsen

10/26/2025

2 dogs and a rainbow. Amazing.

10/22/2025

I’ve been working on off leash reliability with Keanu during sniffspot trips, and today I got to test his recall and… he nailed it!!!

10/08/2025

Just some videos and photos from the last month or so!
Ayla Ridley Erika Garcia Tracy O'Brien Jean Gipple
This video contains music from Shutterstock, licensed by Splice video editing.

10/08/2025

You know the saying, “get out of your head and into your body “?

The dog version is…

“Get out of your eyes and into your nose! “

And here’s how to help them do that!