Sheepdog K9 Solutions, LLC

01/06/2025

Did you get a new puppy for Christmas?🌲
Are they chewing, jumping, biting and crying more than you thought? Are they having accidents and destroying your house? Is it time to go back to work and all of a sudden you have too much on your plate? 🦮

Let us do the hard work for you!

Check out our Puppy Head Start program, for puppies 10-16 weeks old. We will take your puppy into our home for 3 weeks, where we work on crate training, house training, basic manners, socialization, car rides, trips to dog friendly locations, and learning the following obedience in new environments: sit, down, place, come, and loose leash walking. Includes daily pictures and video updates! See our website for more information!

www.sheepdogk9solutionsllc.com

12/20/2024

Happy Holidays from Sheepdog K9 Solutions!! Please contact us for your boarding and training needs this season. We can take care of your best friend and train them while they stay with us! Check out our new website!
www.sheepdogk9solutionsllc.com

12/16/2024

Just over a week until Christmas! Let’s see everyone’s favorite holiday pics! 🌲

11/10/2024

We are proud to have been able to sponsor this great team of young men! Congrats on an awesome season, boys!

A big shoutout to Sheepdog K9 Solutions for sponsoring our practice jerseys! Thanks to your support, the Dirtbags Rawlings 13u team is hitting the field looking fresh and ready to give it their all. We are grateful to have you in our corner as we end our highly successful inaugural season.

10/26/2024

It’s almost Halloween! 🎃

EVERYTHING can be a training opportunity if you are dedicated enough! How are your dogs around kids, costumes, ringing doorbells and parades? If they need a little help, shoot us a message!

Let’s see your best 🐶 Halloween pics!

10/24/2024

Some of you have asked to see videos of little dogs in the program (under 10 pounds), so we wanted to show Bentley’s video on day 12 of his 2 week board and train. Bent came to us with NO training, and would bolt out his owners door at any opportunity and take off down her street. Now Bentley has beautiful, reliable off leash obedience! He was such a fun little guy to work with!

10/22/2024

This beauty is Dolly, a 1 year old Golden Retriever. Dolly is halfway through her 2 week board and train program and is crushing every new challenge we have given her! Here she is shopping today in Michael’s 🧡

10/10/2024

Welcome Jax! Jax is a super cute terrier mix who is here for a 2 week board and train. We will be working on obedience, manners, and addressing some of his reactivity to new people. So far he is off to a great start!

09/16/2024

Martini 🍸, is an adorable 6 month old Mini Aussie pup, who is here for some refresher training while she boards with us for the next few weeks. 💜

09/14/2024

We looooove our client dogs!! From adventuring out with them, to hanging at home, these guys are treated like one of our own! ❤️

Contact us for your boarding or training needs!

09/10/2024

Tongue out Tuesday!🤣

Meet Zeke! Zeke is a super sweet boy who is here for a 2 week board and train. Part of what we will be working on in addition to basic obedience, is getting him acclimated to water! That’s right, his owners want him to be able to swim in their pool (and not panic😆). Our board and train programs can be customized to whatever your wants/needs are for your pup!

Lots of fun to be had over the next few weeks!🌊

09/02/2024

Big or small, we train them all!

Bentley is an 8 month old Maltese who is here for a 2 week board and train. He may be tiny but he is as smart as they come.

Just because you have a little dog does not mean they can’t do everything the big dogs can when it comes to obedience.🤍

Take them out of your purse and put them on the ground. A little training goes a long way!

07/29/2024

We are jumping into August like Stella and Deacon!🤣 Our client dogs enjoy lots of off leash time on our 17 acre property—as well as time in the dog pool, splash pad, and hanging out on the couch!

We are currently booked through August but have 2 board and train slots available for September and a minimal amount of boarding spots. Contact us for your boarding or training needs! 🐾

07/04/2024

Happy 4th of July from Gus!!🇺🇸

(we promise, he really IS happy🤣)

Gus is a fun little French Bulldog, who is here for a 2 week board and train.

We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday weekend. Keep your pups indoors and safe!💥

06/16/2024

This is absolutely a thing! So often we get dogs who are constantly spun up—with no focus, engagement, or impulse control.

Well worth the read!

Yesterday I saw a video from a well-known trainer on social media that discussed how there is no such thing as “too much exercise” for dogs. This discussion was accompanied by b roll of dogs fetching balls in a variety of places.
I don’t usually get involved in trainer arguments but I need to say something about this.
There ABSOLUTELY is such a thing as too much high-arousal exercise. And you probably don’t want to find out for yourself what happens next.
Activities that tend to *physically* wear dogs out the fastest are also the ones that create the highest excitement levels. Fetching balls. Playing frisbee. Racing around at the dog park. Chasing water from the garden hose. Running next to a bike.
All of these are physical exercise, but they also create intense arousal states. And if you put your dog into high-arousal states repeatedly you better know how to train around this, too.
I have a lot of students who fell into this trap. They got a high-energy dog (a GSD, a herding breed mix of some sort, a retriever etc.).
They figured out that the fastest way to make the dog physically really tired (the tongue-hanging-to-the-floor-kind-of-tired) was by playing chuck-it for half an hour. Or by taking the dog to the dog park every day for a wild romp.
The dog started to crave these arousal states (as programmed in their DNA).
But at the same time, no impulse control training happened. So now we have a dog who knows the fun of adrenaline and who seeks it, without having been taught to listen and regulate when in a state of high excitement.
This dog will start to show other problems. They might get frustrated to the point of redirecting when they cannot access fun immediately. They might be vocalizing or unable to settle and then I get messages that say “My dog just cannot be normal in public”.
If your dog gets to enjoy a high-arousal activity every time they leave the house, they will start to expect (and eventually demand) a high-arousal activity every time.
And this is not fun.
Your dog needs a balance of high-arousal and low-arousal activities. Furthermore, the more high-arousal activities your dog has, the more you have to balance these with impulse control training. It’s not fair to make our dogs crazy without teaching them the skills to un-crazy ;)
“Exercise” can have four quadrants:
- Low-arousal, not physically demanding (sniff walks)
- Low-arousal, physically demanding (hiking)
- High-arousal, not physically demanding (excited waiting while another dog works)
- High-arousal, physically demanding (fetching)

Make sure you are aware which type of exercise you are providing for your dog, and try to reach a balance that works for your dog.
If you are unhappy with your dog’s arousal level or impulse control in daily life, look at whether this is amplified by the type of exercise you are providing.

06/03/2024

Happy Summer everyone!! ☀️

Things have been super busy for us here, and we are now full for boarding and training through July. We have some open boarding spots in August as well as one board and train opening.

Enjoy this picture of beautiful Willow, a husky/ shepherd mix girl who is here for a 2 week board and train. 🐾