Dunes Dog Training Club

01/22/2025

We are pleased to announce that Dunes Dog Training Club and our Pets N Vets Program is a recent recipient of a 2024 Transform Lake County Fall Grant! Thank you for your continued support, Legacy Foundation! We truly appreciate you! ❤

2024 Transform Lake County Fall Grants Grants from this cycle are supported by the Lake County Community Fund and multiple Unrestricted Funds. Edit Organiza ...

01/21/2025

Thank you for your service, retired Valpo K9 Geist! 🌈 🐾

01/21/2025

Tuesday, January 21 - BASIC OBEDIENCE Classes will be held at the normal times. Just email or message us if you cannot be at class. Thank you!

01/16/2025

You know what this means for your pets - limit their time outdoors! Time for some indoor fun & games to use up some energy! 🐾

DANGEROUS COLD ON THE WAY🌬

Next week's cold isn't messing around--even by January standards. This next shot of arctic air arrives Sunday and will last for a good 60+ hours across the Region. With this kind of prolonged extremely cold air, impacts from the cold will begin to amplify. The longer duration could result in burst pipes, car batteries dying, in addition to bitterly cold conditions for anyone exposed. Make sure you're making a plan now to avoid the cold next week!

01/15/2025

Read the original poster’s comments if you are questioning any of this. Help, don’t help.

Forgive my bluntness, although I’m not sorry. I cannot continue to battle people to save dogs.

If you are not trained to trap dogs, do not follow posts about dogs you have no clue about and take it upon yourself to go out there. This is a daily problem for all counties and their shelters.

It is currently 21 degrees outside and it is going to be -1 tonight. This dog pictured has been in the same spot for a week. It is running from even a door closing in the business that is hundreds of feet away (noted in the post). This is not a dog begging to get in your car, this is not a dog that you can sit down and wish over to you. You are not going to save a dog like this you are going to cause problems for people like us and the shelter, and more than anyone the dog.

We were contacted today when the dog was posted on Facebook by 9 different people, spent the time to reach out to the poster to get accurate info to trap quickly and smartly and I know of at least two people that got there before we could get there from the opposite side of town and fended off several more. We even commented on the post to stay out of the area so people wouldn’t come. One person was walking the tree line that the dog had claimed as its safe spot when we got there. So in an hour time frame people that had no business intervening that don’t have the skills or equipment to help have now run the dog to god knows where.

I can’t rescue dogs that you run, that you feed so much they are not hungry. For the love of god, I’m begging you to stay away. Because now we get to go to sleep tonight knowing we could have helped but you messed it up, we get to worry that this dog is going to freeze to death tonight, we get to waste more time trying to save this dog that could have already been safe and warm so another dog will suffer that we can’t get to.

So I will say it one last time - If a dog is not begging to jump in your car, coming up to people in the public for help, then STAY AWAY! You are not helping get it safe by running it, feeding it a bag of food, and then getting mad because it is not safe after you demand someone clean up the mess you have helped create.

For all the dogs out there please stop and think about what a dog needs. What the posts say is happening. You are no more special than the person posting, if the dog is running from them it IS going to run from you too.

UPDATE: so everyone knows we are aware that there is a person that is claiming to be an old owner of this dog, not a current owner. She has been told that we will not release the location to anyone and jeopardize this dogs life further. We will contact her when the dog is contain so she is aware. I would respectively ask that anyone that knows the info not to share it either.

01/07/2025

A broken leg kept Charlie in hiding, but fortunately a happy ending!

01/06/2025

Are you starting Puppy Obedience this Wednesday? Check your email!

If you missed this session, Feb. 26th is the next scheduled 7-week session for AKC STAR Puppy Class. Your completed contract and payment will save you a spot in this upcoming session. Contracts are here: https://www.dunesdogtrainingclub.com/forms

01/01/2025

🐾 You’ve earned this retirement, K9 Juno! Thank you for your years of service! 🐾

As 2024 came to a close so did the career of K9 Juno. Juno is a dual-purpose German Shepherd imported from the Netherlands and will be 10 years-old later this month. He served the citizens of Schererville and Lake County for nearly eight years while at the Schererville Police Department with a dual assignment on a HIDTA task force. Juno is credited with countless drug and money seizures, as well as locating missing persons and individuals who fled from police. He will enjoy retirement with his handler and family. 🐾

12/31/2024

Thank you, everyone! We are pleased to be able to support our Pets N Vets Program Veterans and their dogs in their dog obedience training goals!

With 2024 coming to a close, we wish to thank all our Pets N Vets Supporters, past and present! We couldn't do our work with Veterans and their dogs without wonderful people and organizations such as yours!

Looking forward to a great year in 2025!

12/30/2024

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12/27/2024

12/27/2024

Looking forward to a better-trained dog in 2025? You're in luck!

Our classes will be beginning very soon: Tues. January 7th for Basic and Wed. January 8th for Puppy and Advanced classes!

Sign up today...deadline for mailing is Dec. 31st! Download forms here: www.dunesdogtrainingclub.com/forms

12/24/2024

A new partnership of the Lake County, IN Animal Control and Adoption and Rehome.

Every day we receive more and more calls about owners needing to surrender their pets. Since we are an animal control shelter, we do not accept owner surrenders. We have teamed up with REHOME by Adopt-a-Pet. Adopt-a-Pet.com has created a simple, reliable program to help you place your pet from your loving home directly to another.

HERE IS HOW IT WORKS
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Get your pets posted on Adopt-a-Pet.com to be seen by millions of pet adopters.
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The dedicated team at Rehome will give you all the help you need to select the best potential adopters.
3. Meet Adopters
The Rehome team will guide you through the process of setting safe and pressure-free meetings with applicants.
4. Finalize Adoption
Rehome will provide you with a template for transfer of ownership with your adopter!

To list your pet, owners either pay Rehome a small listing fee (between $5 and $50 based on the type and age of their pet), or we have provided pet owners in need with this referral coupon code that reduces the listing fee to $1:

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12/15/2024

Constant dog barking at your parent’s home? You visit friends & get jumped on? Neighbor’s dog greets you anytime you head into your yard? Gift them with registration into DOG OBEDIENCE CLASSES! Registration ends 12/31!