Wito Hollow Farm

03/23/2025

Everyone welcome Blaze to the farm! He is here for our Puppy Paws 3 week program! He is a sweetie! He has made friends with Pepper and Rocco. They are showing him the potty training ropes!

03/10/2025

🐾 Guava Needs Your Help! 🐾

Guava is a 4-year-9-month-old, 55-pound yellow lab mix who is as sweet and loving as they come. She is gentle, affectionate, and eager to please, but unfortunately, kennel life is not for her. Guava is working on her separation anxiety, and being in a stressful environment isn’t helping—she truly needs a stable, loving home where she can feel safe and secure.

🏡 What Guava Needs:
✔️ A foster or adopter who can provide patience, consistency, and love
✔️ A home where she isn't left alone for long hours—someone who works from home or has a flexible schedule would be ideal
✔️ Another confident dog in the home could help her feel more secure
✔️ A calm, structured environment to help her build confidence

Guava has so much love to give, and we know the right person or family is out there for her! If you’ve ever thought about fostering or adopting, now is the time—Guava desperately needs a chance to thrive outside the shelter.

🙏 Can you help Guava? Foster or adopt and be the hero she’s been waiting for. Reach out today! 💛🐶

03/08/2025

I always ask my clients if they like everyone they meet? Most of them say NO I don’t. I explain to them it’s the same for dogs. They are not going to like everyone or dog they meet also. So always respect other people’s space and dog’s space. Just because your dog gets along with others doesn’t mean others will accept your dog. Always advocate for your dog’s safety. Your dog doesn’t have to meet every dog walking down the street.

02/23/2025

Yeti came here already knowing the “sit” command so after enforcing that with her. I started on the “down” command. This girl is very smart!!!

02/23/2025

In this video Yeti is just getting to know me. She isn’t paying very much attention. So I am just letting her settle in. She hasn’t had some of these treats so we are trying a couple different ones to see what is considered “high value” to her and these didn’t seem to impress her.

02/22/2025

Everyone welcome Yeti to Wito Hollow Farm. She is here for one week. She already knows how to sit. So we will be working on her confidence, potty training and the down command. She is a sweetie pie.

02/13/2025

For years, fluoxetine (Prozac) has been pushed as the answer to behavioral problems in dogs. Veterinary behaviorists and force-free advocates love to cite “science-backed” studies to justify long-term medication use. But here’s a big problem, most of these studies are flawed, biased, and rely almost entirely on owner-reported data.
Take, for example, the 2009 study on fluoxetine for compulsive disorders in dogs (Irimajiri et al., J Am Vet Med Assoc). It claimed fluoxetine helped, yet the only improvement came from owners’ OPINIONS, not actual behavioral measurements. When researchers looked at objective data the dogs’ actual behavior logs they found NO SIGNIFICANT difference between the medicated and placebo groups. But guess which result gets cited?🤫
How about the 2007 study on fluoxetine for separation anxiety (Simpson et al., Veterinary Therapeutics). The conclusion? Fluoxetine was effective … but only when paired with a structured behavior modification plan. And yet, thousands of dogs are medicated without any meaningful training, as if a pill can replace actual learning.
Sad reality is that Dogs are being drugged, not rehabilitated.
Ask any serious trainer what happens when they get a dog that’s been on fluoxetine for years. They take the dog off the meds, implement a sound training plan, and SHOCKINGLY the dog improves.
Not because fluoxetine “worked,” but because the dog finally got what it needed: clarity and proper training.
Yet, the AVSAB keeps pushing these medications while dismissing legitimate training as “aversive” or “outdated.” They’d rather chemically suppress behavior than actually address it.
The real question isn’t whether fluoxetine has some effect but why so many dogs improve when you REMOVE the drug and train them properly?!!!
Behavioral change comes from learning, not sedation. It’s time to stop pretending otherwise.
I know I am not the only one noticing that dogs on fluoxetine don’t get better - they just get dull.
The dog isn’t learning or adapting, just becoming more passive.
This can actuallY DELAY proper rehabilitation, because the dog’s emotions and responses are chemically suppressed rather than modified through learning.
Thinking about making a solo podcast to talk about the dog I have in training right now, one of the many that end up euthanized after YEARS of being on SSRI’s and the pandemic of prescribing psychotropics like flea medication

02/08/2025

If your pet's microchip is registered through "Save This Life" Microchips ~ You'll need to Re-register the microchip. Below are some options. They have shut down and unlinked their database.

02/02/2025

Matzah and Banks love playing together. They are best buddies!

01/30/2025

My thoughts and prayers go out to all of the victims, their family and loved ones in the horrific helicopter and commercial airline collision in Washington DC.

01/29/2025

Reward every try. 🙏🐴 Guy McLean

01/27/2025

I wanted to let everyone know I will be updating my Puppy Paws Programs and my website soon. There will be some price changes and program changes. Stay tuned for some updates. Coming soon!

01/26/2025

01/22/2025

Found Dog Alert!

This adorable little girl was found wandering around Cooksey Road in LaPlata on Monday, January 20. She was brought to us after being found because the Charles County Animal Care Center was closed at the time.

She has since been safely transferred to the Charles County Animal Shelter in hopes of reuniting her with her family.

If this sweet pup belongs to you or someone you know, please contact the Charles County Animal Care Center as soon as possible. Let’s help her find her way back home!

📍 Found Location: Cooksey Road, LaPlata
📅 Found Date: Monday, January 20

Share to spread the word! 🐾❤️

01/21/2025

Anyone that has been working from home and that has been ordered back to work in the federal government who owns a dog. Please DO NOT GIVE YOUR DOG UP! DO NOT drop them off at the shelter! Yes it’s an adjustment but please reach out to me in reference to making a plan for the care and options you have for your dog when you go back to work! There ARE other options other than giving your dog up. Send me a private message and let’s have a conversation!!! I am NOT charging people for having a conversation about options for your pets!! I am setting this post to public so it can be shared. The rescues are already getting calls from people who think they can’t keep their dogs. So I’m here to help with some options.

01/06/2025

My German Shepherds LOVE the snow. Cylo tolerates it then wants to come inside. Tucker LOVES IT!! He started barking at it and catching it in his mouth.

01/06/2025

Playtime in the snow!!!