Greenshield K9 LLC

06/01/2024

Shared from Animal Healing with Lisa Tully

⁣If you’re worried about your dog during these hotter days, and are feeding them ice cubes to cool them, I can tell you now it’s having the opposite effect.⁣
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Ice cubes actually 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘶𝘱, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦’𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘺...⁣
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According to Chinese medicine principles, when the body ingests ice it starts to warm the body to counteract the internal cold it creates 🔥⁣
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This is why in Asia they drink warm tea to cool themselves down, as they understand this principle.⁣
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I remember in Delhi a few years back it was 40 degree heat. 𝘔𝘺 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘴. ⁣
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The local women saw this, and despite the language barrier, quietly slipped my feet into a warm basin of water. ⁣
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At the time it confused me, as it was before I trained in Five Elements Chinese medicine for animals, but I went along with it as I really needed the help!⁣
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And it brought 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘧 as it resolved the stagnation I was experiencing & got the blood fluids moving again.⁣
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And this ties in nicely with the second reason why not to feed your dog ice cubes, 𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦. ⁣
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Which can eventually lead to more serious issues. ⁣
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So if you want to cool them down in a way that works in harmony with their body, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝...⁣
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🐾 Put out two bowls of water. In the first bowl have plain water & in the second add a few pinches of sea salt. ⁣
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🐾 Salt has a cooling effect on the body and dogs know when & how often they need to drink it.⁣
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🐾 All you need to do is make it available to them and enjoy watching them self select between the two.⁣
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05/07/2024

First half of our seminar this past weekend.

05/07/2024

Second half of the seminar. There may be more photos later on.

05/07/2024

Ammo and I had the distinct honor of attending and instructing at the 3rd Annual Get Lost Seminar hosted by our friends at K9 Search & Rescue Services of West Virginia Inc.

I for one, will take the lessons I learned this weekend, forward into the future with purpose and joy. We never stop learning, every single person and dog we encounter has something to teach us.

As always, I am so very proud of my boy Ammo, who is absolutely my right hand and partner in this work. Without him, I wouldn’t be the handler I am today. I owe so much to him, and I will strive to become the human he deserves. As Charm Gentry said, we get the dog we deserve. I will continue to strive to be worthy of him, as I wish all of our students to do with their dogs. Let go, and let Dog.

03/06/2024

It has come to our attention that people have been having difficulty booking on our Wix website. If that has been you, please message us here on Facebook and we would be happy to help you. We are currently working to figure out the issue with our website.

11/11/2023

We are doing a special for basic obedience and trick classes for the rest of the month! Call now to get on schedule!

10/21/2023

— UPDATE — FOUND!
Be on the look out for this dog in the Ashland area.

10/21/2023

This is what it’s all about. Helping people and their dogs conquer their challenges. Angus is a very interesting dog who had a mind of his own, until we convinced him it’s a lot more fun to work WITH us.

10/20/2023

Changing the way I do business sucks, the actions of some change it for everyone else. I have learned some lessons this year and the only one to blame is me.

Going forward my time will be paid for upfront
Thank you to those who made me see my mistakes. Life Is forever a learning experience.

10/15/2023

Congratulations to Angus on Graduating his Secondary Obedience Behavioral course with his dad! This team has worked so hard to achieve this goal, I am immensely proud of them.

09/19/2023

Something I teach all my clients is that stress is good.

All dogs get stressed out at some point in their life. For some it's walking down the road past barking dogs, getting into a vehicle, getting groomed/nails cut, going to the vet, hearing fireworks, or meeting new people.
Every dog is stressed by something and every dog responds to stress differently.

It's my job as a trainer and handler to not cater to that stress.

A lot of times, owners have every intention of helping the dog, but in reality they're reinforcing and teaching the dog to continue reacting badly to the stressful thing/situation.

By learning how to help your dog in a stressful situation, you'll help build a more confident dog.

Zyko was nervous of the blow dyer, instead of turning it off and teaching him being nervous gets rid of the stress, I worked him through it. Once he relaxed, I turned it off and within seconds he was ready to play with his toy.
He may never love being blow dried, but he will tolerate it, behave appropriately, and once it's done he's not going to fret over it anymore.

09/16/2023

09/16/2023

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08/23/2023

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07/07/2023

05/09/2023

04/27/2023

Being that it is now spring and everyone is getting started on their gardens, this is some decent info to have

Spring is here. Time for plant lovers to go shopping. Here's a good guide to go by to keep pets safe. 🥀🌻🪴

04/16/2023

If we do things right, we are never "training". We are just two friends playing a game together 🤝

04/16/2023

It’s a bizarre time to be a dog trainer. Anyone in the field pledging allegiance to objective reality and rejecting ideological indoctrination (aka utopian fantasy), knows precisely what I’m talking about.

The truth, and its knack for making things messy and often uncomfortable, is verboten. And so neat, tidy, comfortable lies become commonplace and normalized.

If you’re an owner and you’re wondering why it’s so hard to find a trainer who can actually help you, it’s not because the information and know-how needed to resolve your issues aren’t out there—they most certainly are—it’s because the training world has been hijacked by a utopian ideology where only that which feels good is allowed.

And so you and your dog get to struggle and suffer for the cause. Because ironically, the cause which works so hard to present itself as caring, virtuous, and humane, is anything but. The truth, if you dig a bit deeper than the PP/FF emotionally strategic rhetoric, and if you look at the end results—is that you and your dog matter not. All that matters is that the cause moves forward. You just happen to be acceptable collateral damage in a war on reason, rationality, and logic. A war wrapped up in a pretty bow and sweet sounding language. A war where feelings always trump reality.

And when feelings trump reality, it’s an ugly time to be a trainer, or an owner…or anyone looking to make things better.

04/13/2023

Woohoo! Way to represent our great Working Dogs of America family! Good luck to all competitors on the Nationals field this weekend! A special shout out to my best friend Kayla Penix and her dog Cheese, who is Ammo’s littermate brother. They have worked hard to get to Nationals, as did every team there! To everyone competing, from our team to yours, good luck and Godspeed!

A first for me today, having a dog locked onto my arm while I talk about weather! A big shout out to Lisa and everyone at Canyon K9 Training LLC for letting us come talk about the WDA National Championships happening in Canyon this weekend! You don't want to miss these impressive pooches!

Here's my talk with Aric, one of this weekend's competitors:
https://www.newschannel10.com/video/2023/04/12/2nd-cup-working-dogs-american-national-championship-coming-canyon/