Mutts With Manners-Pawsitive training for your dogs

01/21/2025

Fluffy dog enrichment! 🫶🏼🐾✌🏻❄️🏝️🌨️🌴

12/29/2024

January just got a whole lot better!🤩 Packaged private lessons are back, and it's the perfect time to get your dog in shape since it's National Train Your Dog Month!🫶🏼🐾✌🏻
You can score a deal when you buy 4 or 6 private lessons. From basic obedience to advanced behaviors, we've got you covered. Want to pass the Canine Good Citizen evaluation? 🐶🎓 We've got the links you need!👇🏻
4 pack: https://square.link/u/50Zkab1f
6 pack: https://square.link/u/0WkQ5ZlX
Puppy pods are coming soon, so stay tuned!
Training often fails because people expect too much out of the animal, and not enough out of them selves. Bob Bailey.

12/07/2024

Who else can relate? 

12/01/2024

OK, I'll go first!
I have three roommates… One of my roommates likes to clean my other roommates ears with his tongue, and lick their eye boogers out of their eyes each morning!🥴

My third roommate lays down by the front door every time I leave the house and only moves when I return home.🐶🎾
Now you go! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻OK, I'll go first!
I have three roommates… One of my roommates likes to clean my other roommates ears with his tongue, and lick their eye boogers out of their eyes each morning!🥴

My third roommate lays down by the front door every time I leave the house and only moves when I return home.🐶🎾
Now you go! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

11/30/2024

We thought of two good reasons to extend this black Friday sale! 🖤🐾✌🏻
🔔Today a small business Saturday!
🔔Monday is cyber Monday!
The below offer will be extended until midnight on Monday!

🚨🚨 the below offer is being extended through midnight tonight for cyber Monday!🚨🚨
The best time to start training Fido is now!🐶

🚨Don’t let these BLACK FRIDAY PACKAGES pass you and Fido by‼️🤙

Until MIDNIGHT on FRIDAY, you can purchase a package of 4 or 6 private lessons at your place, or ours!👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
4 pack- https://square.link/u/50Zkab1f
6 pack- https://square.link/u/0WkQ5ZlX

In either package, you can select at your home, or at one of our training locations!🫶🏼🐾✌🏻

Do you have a friend who needs dog training? These packages make great holiday gifts (Christmas gift cards are available)!🎅🏽🎄

SHARING IS CARING! Please share this special with your network! We thank you in advance!🤩

🗓️These packages expire on 28 February 2025.

11/27/2024

🚨🚨 the below offer is being extended through midnight tonight for cyber Monday!🚨🚨
The best time to start training Fido is now!🐶

🚨Don’t let these BLACK FRIDAY PACKAGES pass you and Fido by‼️🤙

Until MIDNIGHT on FRIDAY, you can purchase a package of 4 or 6 private lessons at your place, or ours!👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
4 pack- https://square.link/u/50Zkab1f
6 pack- https://square.link/u/0WkQ5ZlX

In either package, you can select at your home, or at one of our training locations!🫶🏼🐾✌🏻

Do you have a friend who needs dog training? These packages make great holiday gifts (Christmas gift cards are available)!🎅🏽🎄

SHARING IS CARING! Please share this special with your network! We thank you in advance!🤩

🗓️These packages expire on 28 February 2025.

11/23/2024

You guys asked for it, and we listened!🖤🐾✌🏻

Packaged private lessons! Save when you buy 4 or more‼️

🤙Call or email for your BLACK FRIDAY Deals now, and don’t miss out!

Christmas gift certificates are available!🎄🎅🏽

🚨This Black Friday deal will end at midnight on 29 Nov 2024!🚨

11/20/2024

🐾🐶🐾Paws at Attention, Fido!

🗓️Last call for good behavior! Our final group class begins on 01 Dec, then we are ditching obedience for a cozy night in with Netflix and treats!

Let the couch surfing begin!🎄🎅🏽


🐾🐶🐾Paws at Attention, Fido!

🗓️Last call for good behavior! Our final group class begins on 01 Dec, then we are ditching obedience for a cozy night in with Netflix and treats!

Let the couch surfing begin!🎄🎅🏽

11/06/2024

Help us share this handsome boy! 

11/06/2024

"Thank you Galveston County Daily News and Trelle for sharing this information. Did you know that a staggering 72% of our intake is strays or abandoned animals. Sadly only 17% of these stray / abandoned animals are redeemed by their owners. Please keep your pup leashed and properly confined, redeem them when they land in the shelter. Adopt, Foster, Volunteer and Donate. www.galvestonhumane.org"
Josh Henderson, executive Director Galveston Island Humane Society 

According to Galveston’s Code of Ordinances for animals and fowl: “It shall be unlawful for any person owning, keeping or having any animal in their possession or control to allow

11/01/2024

Your feedback is invaluable to us! Have you considered sharing your thoughts on our services? We're working hard to enhance our online presence and your reviews would be a huge help. Thanks for your continued support of Mutts With Manners. We're proud to have served Galveston county for 16 years and look forward to serving you for many more to come!
Don't forget to include photos, because everybody loves photos of cute puppies and dogs! 😘🫶🏼🐾✌🏻

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11/01/2024

Bobbie is a loveable, people/dog/kid friendly senior German Shepherd Mix seeking his furever home. Bobbie loves the beach, has a laid-back personality, and is very well-trained. He knows sit/shake and is housebroken. Bobbie is approximately 7ish years old and has some mild hip issues, so he’d need to live downstairs or in a beach/bay house with a lift. Bobbie is looking for a family that will suit his laid-back and chill lifestyle and provide him with all the love a senior dog deserves!

The Galveston Island Humane Society is always in need of volunteers, fosters, and adopters. By spending time with the shelter dogs, you can help them socialize and also promote their adoption. Becoming a foster parent or adopting a dog like Bobbie can give them the mental and emotional break they need from shelter life. If you’re interested in fostering, please visit www.galvestonhumane.org/foster.

If you’re interested in adopting Bobbie, please apply at www.galvestonhumane.org/adopt

10/22/2024

Canine dysfunctional behavior is roughly equivalent to autism in dogs sharing similarities and behavior patterns with the condition in humans

10/22/2024

I picked these two seminar topics because Dog-Dog Reactivity is the best example of a quality-of-life-destroying problem that is quickly resolved by training YOUR DOG how to act in extremely distracting and stressful situations, i.e., to Turn-Sit-Stay-Shush-Watch (you), which instantly relieves stress for you and your dog, and presents a less-threatening optic to the other dog and owner, who feel less threatened and so, threaten your dog less. This if course requires a scientific approach to training — teaching dogs to respond on cue and quantifying Response-Reliability Percentages in progressively increasing levels of distraction, (several very simple exercises to accomplish this surprisingly quickly), so that you may offer representative verbal feedback (ongoing, binary, and analogue) that accurately reflects your dog's ever-changing behavior. A few treats won't do this, but verbal guidance will. See video posted here on 26th August — the owner's VERY FIRST ATTEMPT and on 1st September — longer pre-training but TOTAL RESOLUTION! See you in Madison WI.

10/22/2024

🎾Using positive reinforcement when you train Fido means you avoid disciplining him when UNDESIREABLE behavior occurs, and instead, reinforce DESIREABLE behavior when it happens.

You have many options for reinforcing Fido positively, but the 4 main categories are:
FOOD 🐾 PLAY 🐾 PETTING 🐾 PRAISE

🐕‍🦺3 months after adopting, you should be able to identify Fido’s favorite way to be reinforced. Is it a yummy piece of chicken breast? A toss of a tennis ball, or a quick game of tug? Does Fido flop over to get his belly rubbed, or does he eat up all the ‘good boy’s’?

🫶🏼Positive reinforcement increases the likelihood that you will see a specific behavior again in the future. Reward based training increases communication and consistency between you and Fido, strengthens your bond and provides mental stimulation which reduces boredom.

✌🏻Remember, Fido is a social animal who is nurtured by his environment. He craves your companionship as much as you crave his. He is always learning from you. So, make time for him in your schedule and you will be rewarded with a relationship like none other, along with fierce loyalty and friendship.


10/18/2024

Join us for a paw-some INTERMEDIATE OBEDIENCE GROUP CLASS to get your furry friend ready for the Pawlidays! 🐾🎃🦃🎅