Gold Ridge Cognitive Canines

12/17/2024

12/06/2024

✨ Sweet girl in search of her forever home ✨

A note from her current foster family:
"We have been fostering an abandoned dog I found. Appears purebred pit terrier and likely deaf. Albino with pure white fur. Sweet disposition and loves human contact. Looking for a good home if anyone is interested. We already have 3 dogs."

Please share and feel free to send my email or phone number so I can get you in touch!

[email protected]
530-414-6553

12/03/2024

For those that were interested in joining the new coming GRC Dogsports Club 👀

I just started a new Facebook group to organize the club and get the ball rolling... Feel free to join and invite others interested! 🐾 ✨

Our plan is to become an * official * club by fall 2025. 🔥

11/29/2024

Very thankful for our dog friends and family, especially those supporting our business, allowing us to pursue our passion!

I am am also incredibly grateful to have been able to pick up a special surprise this holiday. Delphi "Dellie" (now 13 years old), is the 6th puppy I raised for Guide Dogs for the Blind. I truly didn't think that I would receive any of the retired guide dogs I raised back, especially Dellie where her person told me she planned to keep her when we met at the graduation back in 2013... So it really was a surprise!

Dellie worked for 11 years in Utah and then spent a couple of months at the GDB campus to lose some weight (she was over 100 lbs) before we could bring her home! She is still on her weight loss journey with us and I am excited to see her "after photos" 😅

Very happy to see her after so many years...she is settling in beautifully! ♥️

11/23/2024

Ryn (Sept 2012-Nov 2024) - Rest in Peace my little husky/shepherd/coyote - the first dog I adopted after raising 7 guide dogs for the blind. Her coming into my life was a huge deal because I thought it was going to be the first puppy I got to raise and keep...

She was raised with Luke (the last gdb and only one to come back), and they were best buddies. When she was 5 months old (we only had her for a couple of weeks!) she traveled across the country for an entire month living in a van with my mom and I. Ryn was also my buddy when I moved to SoCal and went to college for a year. She kept me company as I lived alone, and was such a fun dog to go out on adventures with, whether it was to the park or the beach. She was Keaton and I's first dog together...she also kept me busy when I was missing Keaton during our long distance relationship as he would go out for weeks at a time. After I couldn't keep her while attending the service dog school, my mom took care of her and she ended up reuniting with Luke for a time as he had come back from guide dogs at that time.

Around the time I graduated college and was thinking about getting her back, I was informed that my grandfather had lost his dog and he was not as active as he had been with a dog in his life. They were not in a position to look for a brand new dog or puppy into the situation, but he already knew and loved Ryn from visits and she was an easy keeper....so we all made the decision that she was more needed there, than with me or even my mom.

We continued to get updates and visit occasionally, until Ryn finally felt as though her duties and purpose was fulfilled, returning back to the universe. I truly feel as though she was with each person who needed her the most and she used her independence and free spirit to brighten up so many cloudy days! I'll never forget the craziest story where she ran off to play with a pack of coyotes and came back to tell the tale 😅 literally everyone loved her ♥️

11/21/2024

✨ EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT ✨

We finally have our next GRCC field project underway with our new container! This will allow us to begin setting up our "dog enrichment gym" and future GRC club! Arrived just in time for the storm! 🐾

11/21/2024

11/21/2024

We really need a lot more public programs out there to educate the general public on dogs and where to get them responsibly, so as not to continuously aid into the backyard breeder problem and the spread of misinformation in the adopt vs. shop debates.

BYBs are able to exist because the general public continues to support them by purchasing from them, as opposed to from one of the responsible preservation breeders that are out there who always take their dog's back, no matter the circumstances.

Of course there are always certain exceptions, but overall you are not going to see the shelters full of responsibly bred dogs.

🤌🏽

11/20/2024

I am excited to finally have had the opportunity to learn from Kim Brophy's L.E.G.S.®️ Applied Ethology Family Dog Mediation®️ Professional Course. I just completed it and earned their Certification as a Family Dog Mediator to add to my "tool box" and even better support my clients. 🐾😊

11/19/2024

The cool kids album cover.... Plus a blooper for the back with the song list 🎶 😎 🐾

11/14/2024

Who wants to join our future GRC Dogsports Club? 👀

✨ Includes training for: ✨

- Social Responsibility

- Slat Mill

- Weight Pull

- Wall Climb

- Spring Pole
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Also thank you Old Town Canine for coming over to check it out with your crew!! Look at that happy face!!
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GRC Dogsports is a dog sport that evaluates a dog's gameness, relationship with its handler, and self-control.

The sport is open to all breeds and includes four games:
Wall climb, Spring pole, Slat mill race, and Weight pull.

GRC Dogsports aims to motivate people to train their dogs, provide a healthy outlet for dogs to use their natural drives, and
inspire people to create a community of dog enthusiasts.

GRC Dogsports events include obedience and control elements, as well as higher level impulse control requirements. For example, in the Social Responsibility part, teams must demonstrate trust, connection, and the ability to make good decisions with minimal guidance. In the obedience and control elements, teams must demonstrate fluency, precision, and attitude.

www.grcdogsports.com

11/14/2024

Frankie & Raven are here to remind you that our next group classes will be:

🐾 Canine Soapbox on 11/15 at 4pm

🐾 Scent Detection on 11/16 at 3pm

Contact us to reserve your spot!

[email protected]

grccanines.com

530-414-6553