Calm before the storm. Look at my little buck!!!! These two have been fun to watch grow up everyday.
A little fun on a beautiful day with my training puppies! They are adorable!!! I love the little babies, and I love socializing them with the older dogs as well as their puppy Playmates! Socialization is more important than training in many ways because the more socialized your dog is and the more they trust you with their handling, the easier it is to have the relationship you want with your dog! Mental stimulation and exercise and plenty of love and care make for a balanced dog!
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Just another training day at the Ranch! Break time for Niko!😂😂😂
We’re having a blast with all these puppies training at the Ranch! Manners are great, but having fun learning is best!! 
Training Spot Leash Classes Saturday !!!!!
Here is the much requested Jett update! Jett is a Proverbs 12:10 Rescue dog that has been here for a few weeks now. As you can tell he is looking so much healthier physically as well as mentally! We have gradually increased his food intake, so that it didn’t make him sick, and now then he had probably gained about 15 pounds. I would bet he has about another 20 to go. He is such a lover and is the sweetest,most gentle giant I have ever met! Due to the cold and super rainy weather, we have not been able to integrate him as much as we would like with the other dogs. He seems to be respectful of the dogs that we have been able to put him with and he walks through the barn every day and visits the dogs in their cages and never barks. It’s like he greets them all just to say “Hello”. Missy says he’s like a big cat because he comes up wants to rub on us. He wants any kind of human contact that he can. He sits very still when you’re petting him and he loves to be massaged. He does get excited like a puppy and that is a lot of puppy! He likes to put his paws on our chest, we don’t necessarily encourage it, but when a big boy like that raises his paw up it’s on you before you can really do anything about it. But it’s in such a gentle sweet way, he was just showing affection. We have been working with his leash training but he so excited about the attention that he wants to play. We want to certainly make sure that he has a good experience on the leash so we’re slowly getting him used to some manners. Hopefully now that the weather is better we can take pictures of each other with him so that you can get a true visual of how huge this animal is. His heart is equal to the size of his body. Anybody that loves Great Danes could not find a sweeter, more kind, furry family member.
Here is a little Jett Update for those wanting to know his progress. It is always hard bringing in a great big dog like this and never knowing for sure what his real mentality is. But after a few days I have to say, this is one of the sweetest, gentle, giants I’ve ever seen. He gets very excited and jumps around and barks a lot, and that’s quite a sight to see 120 to 140 pounds bouncing around you. But as we have gotten to know each other, he just wants love. When I go in the room with him he gets really excited, and then I put his food in his bowl and he will eat a couple of bites, but then he comes over and wants some love. He has so enjoyed the heater. The first couple of days he did not want to go out because I’m sure he was afraid he wasn’t going to get come back in. So I just did the duty and cleaned up after him, and that’s a lot of cleaning up but it gave him Time to settle In. After a couple of days of being able to leave the doors open for him he now knows that he will get back in. His big thing now he wants me to go out in the yard with him, of course I do. So he is still just making sure that he can get back in, and I think he loves the company. We’re putting some weight on him in a healthy fashion. In a few days we will see if we can Find him a buddy. Right now he has his little rabbit toy and he loves that thing. So overall, Jett is doing great! Anyone that knows and loves Great Danes, this is your guy! Thank you Proverbs 12:10 for giving me the chance to get to know this guy.
This is Jett. He was chained outside and only given one can of food a day until four days ago. He has not been socialized due to his horrible circumstances and is really insecure and scared. He was at a great foster for a few days but this big guy needs a little more room and the pack to help him learn to be a happy dog. He spent last night with a huge bed, blankets, his baby stuffed rabbit and a lot of heat and food. We will give him all the time he needs to trust us, gain some weight and rest. When he is ready, we will socialize him and give him all he needs to move in to his forever home. He will have no more bad days, we promise. I love being a dog trainer because it allows me the opportunity to not only meet great people and help them with their personal dogs, but we get a chance to really make difference for these poor pups that need a place to go. Jett will be available through Proverbs 12:10 when he is ready to move on. Updates to follow.
Taking a snow break from Training at the Ranch. Silly girls!!!
I love it when these guys stay with me. Lady is really old and needs a special place to stay so that she can relax and Rambeaux gets to come for the ride. He is the biggest sweetest love bug ever. But this is a really sweet video of them and I had heard about her cleaning technique and thought it was pretty interesting :-)
