Happy Tails Academy

08/15/2024

✨BENEFITS OF LICKIMATS✨

I’m sure you have seen these mats everywhere and thought “what do those do anyway?” 🤔

Well, we are here to tell you that they actually have MANY benefits for your furry friend, with the top ones being:
🐾 Licking releases pleasure endorphins in a dog’s brain, helping to alleviate stress!
🐾 They provide mental stimulation to alleviate boredom.
🐾 LICKIMATS encourage slower eating + you can freeze them for long enrichment times!
🐾 They are great as a positive reinforcement tool for stressful events such as baths or nail trims.

At Happy Tails Academy, we love incorporating these mats into your pups enrichment! 🤩

08/13/2024

If our dogs were in an Olympic Sport 🇺🇸🥇✨

Which one seems the most fitting? We’re honestly obsessed with them all! 🤩

Tell us in the comments which sport your dog would medal in!

08/10/2024

Big weekend mood 😄☀️

We hope you have as good of a weekend as this good boy is having! 🙌

08/08/2024

Happy to all of our sweet kitty friends!🐱✨🤍

08/08/2024

Happy Gotcha Day to our sweet boy Otto! 🥹🐾

Life is so much fuller + sweeter with you in it 🤍

08/05/2024

No need to fear, the neighborhood watch is here 🦸🏡

Alternate caption: squirrel watching is one of our favorite hobbies here at Happy Tails Academy 🐿️😂

08/01/2024

BIG MOOD when USA Gymnastics takes GOLD 🥇🇺🇸

07/31/2024

In the wise words of cats 🐱

Giving our feline friends some love today! Our drop-in visits are perfect for cats, small animals, or independent dogs ✨

07/29/2024

Here to introduce you all to the SWEETEST pup ever- MILLIE! ✨

Millie is starting Day School today to work on confidence building around new people and in new environments, as well as being more comfortable working with people that aren’t her mom! 👯‍♀️🐾

Give Millie some love as we start her fun Day Camp Training 🫶🏼

07/29/2024

Wishing our pal, Koa, a very special FIRST birthday today! We hope you get all the treats and find all the mischief that your little heart desires, you deserve it! 😉🫶🏼🥳

07/26/2024

Going out in style today for the start of the 🗼🇺🇸🥇

We’ll be celebrating by playing our own “games” all week long so stay tuned for all the fun competitions we host! 🤩

ALSO— HUGE SHOUTOUT TO LuLu London for the adorable bandanas to get us in the spirit, we’re OBSESSED 🙌

07/26/2024

Check out what our friends at LuLu London are up to!

We are very proud sponsors of the second annual Des Moines One Million Steps for OCD Walk. We have created the official dog bandana for this event and will donate 25% of all sales to OCDIowa. With the purchase of this bandana you are helping to raise funds to challenge the stigma sourrounding and raising awareness about what it really means to have obsessive compulsive disorder.

The Des Moines One Million Steps for OCD Walk will take place on Sunday, September 8th, 2024 at Gray's Lake Park in Des Moines, Iowa. Register for the walk or pledge a donation at https://support.iocdf.org/event/des-moines-ocd-walk/e584637.

Purchase your official OCD Walk bandana at www.lululondon.shop.

On behalf of OCDIowa and all of the sponsors of this event, we THANK YOU for your support! ❤

07/24/2024

Nothing like some puppy smooches to get us through the mid week slump 🥲🌈🤍

07/23/2024

When the forecast calls for rainy days, we spend our days together inside 🌧️🐾🏡

07/22/2024

Meet Oakli & Sash- our NEWEST Board and Train Program! 🐾

Both will be learning leash manners and working on a calm mindset in exciting environments so they can enjoy vacations and brewery patio hangs with their mom and dad! 🍻

07/21/2024

Sundays are for brunchin on some doggy pancakes 🥞

07/19/2024

HAPPY FRIDAY FRIENDS! 🐾☺️

May your coffee be strong and your weekend be long ☀️

07/18/2024

Tag someone who’s obsessed with their pet as much as we are! 🐾🤍

07/16/2024

After countless hours of renovation, yard work, and inspections— we can finally say we are done (for now) 🥰🐾

The room you are seeing is an all-in-one! Dogs will sleep in here in crates - We have multiple of various sizes to accommodate all sizes of dogs! All dogs will come out in rotations for socialization, training, etc. We will have some training and conditioning in this space and some outside! All socialization and play will happen in our large, open yard 🙌

We have so many more fun projects to come, but for now we are proud of this space and this community we’ve built 🤍🥲

07/16/2024

Staying cool this week with some delicious + nutritious cold treats and lots of time in the pool outside 🙌☀️

07/12/2024

Weekend mood 💤😴

Happy Friday friends! Stay cool out there 🌤️

07/10/2024

How stinking cute are these bandanas with our logo on them? 🥹

special shout-out to the LuLu London team for these!!

We are feeling super official now with some branded merch + a website + bookings filling up for the summer! 🐾

07/09/2024

With the temps rising, here are some tips to be diligent about your pet’s well-being this summer! ☀️

07/08/2024

✨ DID YOU KNOW ✨

We’re located in the small, safe town of Kelley, Iowa? Located only 16 minutes from Ames, Iowa and 34 minutes from Des Moines, Iowa— we are conveniently close to numerous larger communities for easy drop off/pick up access! 🙌

07/04/2024

Happy birthday, Roscoe!🥳🐾
We hope your day has been full of all the outside sniffs and treats that you ask for!

07/04/2024

Milo is here to wish you a Happy Fourth + a fun holiday weekend! 🇺🇸🐾

07/01/2024

A heads up for anyone traveling to and from HTA in Kelley!

Heads up for those who take Hwy 69 between Huxley and Ames.

JEFFERSON, Iowa – July 1, 2024 – If you travel on U.S. 69 between Ames and Huxley you need to be aware of an upcoming road closure that could affect your trip.

Beginning on Thursday, July 11 at 7 a.m., until Tuesday, Sept. 24, weather permitting, crews will close U.S. 69 just north of 280th Street/Story County Road E-57 near Kelley so the Walnut Creek bridge can be replaced with a box culvert.

While U.S. 69 is closed you will follow a marked detour route using Iowa 210, Story County Road R-38, and U.S. 30.

The latest traveler information is available anytime through our 511 system. Visit 511ia.org; call 511 (within Iowa) or 800-288-1047 (nationwide); stay connected with 511 on Facebook or X (find links at https://iowadot.gov/511/511-social-media-sites); or download the free app to your mobile device. Please note that the 511 system only reports traveler information for state and U.S. highways and interstates. County and city roads are not covered.

For general information about this project contact Jenny Hoskins, Iowa DOT Jefferson construction office, at 515-386-8166 or [email protected]
https://www.news.iowadot.gov/newsandinfo/2024/07/us-69-south-of-ames-to-close-on-thursday-july-11.html

07/01/2024

The moment we’ve all been waiting for is HERE! 🥹🐾

OUR WEBSITE IS OFFICIALLY LIVE! ✨

Starting this business has truly been a dream come true and seeing an actual tangible website is just SO surreal! We are ✨soft launching✨ with the holiday week ahead, so no booking is available JUST yet, but will be available on Thursday!

In the meantime, go check out our new site and give us some love on Facebook reviews so people can find us! 🤍

06/29/2024

Now that it’s OFFICIALLY OFFICIAL, we are SO excited to announce that our website ✨soft launch✨ is happening on Monday, July 1st! 😳

We call it a soft launch because booking won’t be available just yet, but we cannot wait to share all the things + everything we have been working on! 🐾

Keep your notifications on because you won’t want to miss this! 🥲