Maple Hill Training and Cattle Dogs

Maple Hill Training and Cattle Dogs Specializing in building partnerships and maximizing your best friend's quality of life.

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12/02/2024

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I have board space available for the Holidays and new years! $40/day

This is a reminder that Maple Hill Training and Cattle Dogs offers boarding right here in Howard City near the 131 on ramp for convenient pick up and drop off!

🥎 Your dog will stay in my home!

🥎One household at a time! Your dog will not be staying in the same area as dogs from another house hold here!

🥎No "Facility schedule", your dog's home schedule will stay the same here! Same feeding time, bathroom times ect.

🥎ONE person does all the caretaking, your dog will not encounter multiple people during their stay.

🥎Low stress environment, no packed loud warehouse feel!

🥎LARGE partially wooded fenced 3acre yard plus 12acres of trails to explore!

🥎 Safe and knowledgeable housing and handling practices!

🥎 Reactive/nervous/aggressive dog friendly!

🥎 Frequent text communication and updates!

🥎Enrichment opportunities!

🥎Train and Stay options!

Trainer and behaviorist on-site. Dogs are housed according to their safety and comfort! Comfortable and social dogs may spend their day out of the crate sleeping on the couch, playing games, going on walks! Nervous dogs that feel safest in their safe space will not be pressured beyond their comfort zone! ❤️

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11/20/2024

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Horse show season is over! I'm opening my schedule back up for new training clients! Get ahold of me if you've been waiting to get your dog in!

-Pictured: Personal dog, Ash with the shed retrieve.

Boarders Zelda and Link enjoying this sunny day!
11/08/2024

Boarders Zelda and Link enjoying this sunny day!

⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ NOTICE ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️We will not be taking NEW in person clients in 2024! If you have worked with us prior, feel f...
06/18/2024

⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ NOTICE ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
We will not be taking NEW in person clients in 2024! If you have worked with us prior, feel free to reach out, however we will not be doing in persons with new clients, remote only for easy cases!

Boarding is still open as long ad it works with our schedule. 🥰

Thanks for understanding! 🫶

🌼🌸🌼🌸 SPRING BOARD SALE!🌸🌼🌸🌼 🌼LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE!🌼 Get $200 OFF a Basic 2 week Board and Train when you con...
04/19/2024

🌼🌸🌼🌸 SPRING BOARD SALE!🌸🌼🌸🌼
🌼LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE!🌼

Get $200 OFF a Basic 2 week Board and Train when you contact us between April 19th and May 1st! This sale allows you to schedule a 2 week board and train on any date between now and September 30th!

This puts our B&T price lower than anything you'll find at just $750!

OR

Get our Deluxe Boarding option at a STEAL for just $35/Day! Normal price is $50/Day! When you contact us April 19th-May 1st and schedule a stay this calender year!

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IMPORANT NOTES:
*An evaluation must be held to determine if your dog is eligible for a 2 week Board and Train. These last anywhere from a half hour to 1 hour and are $50.

*Your dog's stay cannot be put on the schedule until a %50 non-refundable deposit is paid. Dates will remain open to others until then.

*Dogs for boarding must at least be containable via a wire crate, or a crate that you provide for their stay.

*Dogs with owner/handler bites or bite attempts on people they know well do not qualify for this deal. Special accommodations have to be made for dogs that are willing to bite a human and I sadly cannot do that for such a good price. (PLEASE speak with me if this bite includes a herding breed. Context matters and herders nipping at a moving person are not inherently "aggressive".)

*You MUST disclose any aggressive tendancies towards other dogs or animals. These are things I can work with, but I HAVE to know about them.

Pic: Grey during his boarding here. ❤️

The cuteness! 🥰
04/19/2024

The cuteness! 🥰

Whee! Our boarders enjoyed some off leash time on the trails today. ❤️
04/07/2024

Whee! Our boarders enjoyed some off leash time on the trails today. ❤️

3 handsome boys enjoy the yard 🌞
04/05/2024

3 handsome boys enjoy the yard 🌞

Wheeee! 🤣
04/04/2024

Wheeee! 🤣

These 3 goodest of boys are having a stay here with us! 🥰 We feel lucky to have such gentlemen here!
04/04/2024

These 3 goodest of boys are having a stay here with us! 🥰 We feel lucky to have such gentlemen here!

🫶 We love updates! The training Mason recieved during his stay here is being generalized and he is learning a new way of...
03/24/2024

🫶 We love updates! The training Mason recieved during his stay here is being generalized and he is learning a new way of life. ❤️ He has a potential interested adopter currently to be determined if it's the right fit yet. We are still accepting messages and inquiries on him.

03/15/2024

Today was the day of reconing to see just how much progress we could get out of him in public. I want to be clear he is still not comfortable but he is VERY manageable now and I'm incredibly proud of him. ❤️

03/14/2024

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Mason will be looking for his new home soon!
Aussie/Lab
Around a year(exact birthday is known I just suck 😅)
Healthy, happy, intelligent, stable and great deterent!

We absolutely love this dog. ❤️ He's going to be phenomenal for someone that really needs a buddy. Once you're his people he is just absolutely wonderful! I did a bunch of projects yesterday with him just loose and he hung out with me the entire time like a good farm dog!

Mason is:
●Crate trained.
●Potty trained.
●Leash trained.
●Off Leash trained.
●Ecollar trained.
●Mostly muzzle trained.
●He is good for his nail trims and general handling.
●He has a beautiful sit and working on heel.
●He has been around many livestock animals (he is a herding breed mix and it does show at times but he listens when told no).
●He is great with the quad, follows or leads, stays out of the way and does not try to herd the quad at all.

I will be trying him next to my horse on a ride this week as I think he will do absolutely great as a trail ride dog too!

Inside his crate he is quiet unless someone actually pulls in the driveway. He had my amazon guy worried, I actually love it as he settles back down the VERY second the 'threat' is gone. He makes me feel safe! 🤣🤣 He has not once woke us up in the middle of the night. Not a single time, typically a boarding dog does wake us up at least the first night a couple times just barking at sounds. Not Mason, we have gotten sleep with this dude! ❤️

When he is loose in the house he's definitely what I call a "scavenger" in the sense he is looking on the floor and such for dropped food. Thus is most dogs that live with kids because these kids drop all kinds of food! I do think if he was unattended he would look on the counter as well. He does not however take food from my kid so there is that! He did find a napkin on my floor with food on it and he did not rescource gaurd it. He let me trade him for a treat easily. I think with more time loose in my home he would definitely do less sniffing and more relaxing. However when you have kids, you have dropped food and he has kiddos at his home as well! So he has been self rewarded on searching for food. ❤️

The negative:
His only glaring "issue" left that I could see someone having a problem with is that in public he is reactive. He will bark at people and did lunge however I think the prong is going to stop the lunging issue. I do believe some of this is leash reactivity and all of it is under socialization as a young dog. He isn't a bad dog, just hasn't been out a lot and isn't sure how to feel about so many strangers (Same, Mason, Same) He has made good progress with it and his owner has muzzle trained him just in case. However I will be taking him out this evening for the first time specifically to see how he does with just me and his new understanding of leash manners. If you never took him in public though, you would never even know that he has this problem.

We know someone would enjoy this boy just as much as his owners and my family have! ❤️

"But training tools cause harm." They actually cause clarity when used properly and in combination with positive reinfor...
03/14/2024

"But training tools cause harm." They actually cause clarity when used properly and in combination with positive reinforcement and make dogs more easily manageable for the average owner, thus making it easier to find them a home. ❤️ By all means. Leave the introduction of tools to a trainer than knows how to use them properly. But don't judge valuable, potentially life changing tools that help communicate more clearly to the dog.

Mason had his first session with a prong today and this is the first time he has had a beautiful loose leash heel and a clear understanding. It only took a small bump in the beginning to let him know that the collar was there. Keep in mind, I have been working him up to understanding this collar for WEEKS and making sure our relationship was good. ❤️

We sure enjoy this dude a lot. 🥹❤️ Mason here for boarding.
03/14/2024

We sure enjoy this dude a lot. 🥹❤️ Mason here for boarding.

More pictures of Mason being Mason. ❤️
03/11/2024

More pictures of Mason being Mason. ❤️

03/11/2024

This boy is going to make someone the absolute BEST Farm/Property/Family dog. ❤️ If you or someone you know may be looking for a good dog to have on the property soon, please get ahold of me so i can put you in contact with his current owner once they return from their vacation. Mason could be your man. In just 3 days here he is like having one of my own!

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My boarders this week are a hoot! 🤣 Little Zelda gives it everything but her big brother Link is fast without having to try!

Today was the day of reconing to see just how much progress we could get out of him in public. I want to be clear he is still not comfortable but he is VERY manageable now and I'm incredibly proud of him. ❤️

This boy is going to make someone the absolute BEST Farm/Property/Family dog. ❤️ If you or someone you know may be looking for a good dog to have on the property soon, please get ahold of me so i can put you in contact with his current owner once they return from their vacation. Mason could be your man. In just 3 days here he is like having one of my own!

And this is why boarding is operated the way it isl here. No. Your dog will not get to run my house freely all day. No. Your dog will not get to mingle with any other boarder. No. Your dog will not be 100% off lead without an ecollar or long line. No. Your dog will not be loose unsupervised in my yard even with the fence here. But your dog WILL be safe and happy when you pick them up and you can vacation knowing that they are in hands that will not be complacent with their safety in any way. ❤️

Training short! I prefer to use a pad and teach this a different way but I decided to play with Loki a bit without that and start marking what a good heel position is. Making sure he undersstands where I want him. All I am establishing here is where is the pay window for the dog! Where will he get the reward. All I was looking for was for him to be at my side preferably with his rear end straight behind, facing the same direction as I am. That's the pay window connected to "Heel". Many teach their dogs that the pay window is out front facing the human. This should be a separate pay window connected to a cue like "front" or "here". Make sure you practice rewarding your dog in many positions. This teaches the dog that there can be many ways to get paid and will encourage them to try and search for the answer that gets them paid. A dog that is searching for the answer is a dog that is actively using their brains and participating in the session. :)

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